Tracy Taylor-Dwyer

Los Angeles, California, United States

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<meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/taylt072/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml">  <style>  </style>  <span style="font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span> <meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/taylt072/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml">  <style>  </style>   <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Courier; color: red;">Tracy Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Courier;">Creator/Executive Producer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Tracy Taylor is an NAACP Image Award nominated writer, director and producer from Chicago, Illinois.<span style="">  </span>Upon relocating to Los Angeles, Tracy began pursuing a career in screenwriting but somehow ended up doing accounting by day and screenwriting by night<i>. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Things turned around in 2004, when her screenplay <b style=""><i>Walking on Sunshine</i></b> won the first nationwide BET Rap-It-Up/Black AIDS short film competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i><span style="font-family: Courier;">Walking on Sunshine</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"> which depicts two sisters who put themselves at risk for HIV/AIDS, was nominated for a <i>2005 NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Television Movie </i>and won the 2005 Cable Positive Award for Outstanding Original Movie. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family: Courier;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;">In 2009, Taylor wrote and executive produced <b style=""><i><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.new20stv.com/"><span style="color: red;">The New 20s</span></a></span></i><span style="color: red;"> along with her husband and partner, Director, Maurice A. Dwyer.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b style=""><span style="color: red;"> The New 20s is</span></b> a drama series featuring an African-American principal cast. Starring such notable actors as Sharif Atkins <b style="">ER</b> and April Parker Jones<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><b style=""><i>Jericho</i></b>, the series, which revolves around six friends, ten years after college, is already getting some serious buzz. It is also the only drama pilot with an African-American cast to be screened in the 2009 New York Television Festival’s Independent Pilot Competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Taylor’s love for all things cinematic, from television to the big screen, are moving her forward as a female writer and producer who is truly on the move.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Courier; color: red;">Tracy created and produced the drama pilot – </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-family: Courier;">The New 20s.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>

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