TARYN is an actress, writer and web series producer originally from Vancouver, Canada. A competitive figure skater for 10 years, she studied Theatre, Film and Economics at Duke University. She has appeared on the television shows ‘Navy N.C.I.S.’, ‘The Inside’ and ‘Lie to Me’, acted in numerous feature films and has worked with The Coen Brothers, Januz Kaminski, Barry Levinson and Michael Bay on various commercial campaigns. She is deeply involved in the online community, having produced and starred in the multiple Streamy Award nominated scifi webseries After Judgment for which she received both Best Actress and Best Dramatic Webseries nominations, and the scifi comedy Hurtling Through Space at an Alarming Rate! for Babelgum.com.  She has acted in numerous web productions, including the recent fan film trailer for revered comic property Elfquest (with an official panel at Comic Con 2011), in one of the most popular episodes of Black Box TV, and in the critically acclaimed webseries Compulsions, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the 2010 Indie Soap Awards.  She currently plays leading roles in both Blake Calhoun’s new scifi series Continuum and Mystery Guitar Man’s (Joe Penna) first original series Once Upon. She added writing to her repertoire after starting a blog in 2009, and in 2010, her first comedy script, “The Very True Adventures of the Madoff Girls,” was chosen as a Finalist in the NYTVFest FOX Comedy Pilot Contest.  She has numerous web and tv projects in development (that she will be able to post about here soon!), her favorite genre of choice being scifi, though her love of fashion and comedy also comes in handy.  She spends her free time training in martial arts, geeking out to her favorite TV shows and tweeting . Taryn muses about her passion for storytelling in a digital world and the future of entertainment here at her All Things T blog and her journey to become the perfect badass on her Operation BABE tumblr site.