Tara Duffy is a Director, Editor, and Producer. While receiving her BA in Theatre and Performance from SUNY Purchase College, she adapted Joyce Carol Oates’ acclaimed short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? into a stage production. It received The Kay Capo Award for Excellence in Theatrical Adaptation and was publicly praised by Joyce Carol Oates herself. She served on the creative team for Peabody-Award winning Stanley Nelson’s documentary Tell Them We are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

Tara Duffy associate produced the feature documentary Hopeville, USA: The Cost of Failure in the American Classroom for the Emmy-Award Winning Captured Time Productions. The film examines the nation’s rising literacy crisis through the lens of one Elementary School district in Waterbury, Connecticut. She served as a judge for the renowned Austin Film Festival, where she selected quarter-finalist scripts and gave feedback to up-and-coming screenwriters.

She is currently working as a director and editor for the Academy-Award nominated Weston Woods Studios, a division of Scholastic, Inc. She adapts celebrated children’s literature into short, animated films. Tara Duffy continues to produce, direct, and edit films in non-fiction and narrative fiction mediums. She received an MFA in Film and Media Art from Emerson College.