‏Taryn Southern‏

Taryn Southern is a digital personality, writer, producer, director and songwriter with more than 500 million views across her internet videos. In 2018, she produced the world's first pop album composed with artificial intelligence and wrote and produced one of the first immersive virtual reality series commissioned by YouTube VR. In addition, she is directing and producing a sci-fi documentary on the future of man and machine. In 2017, she was named one of the top 20 Women in VR.

Taryn got her start on American Idol before landing guest starring roles in television shows such as Rules of Engagement (CBS), New Girl (NBC), Legit (F/X) and Guys with Kids (CBS). While Taryn focused most of her efforts on writing and producing some of the first ever digital series, she was also a frequent television host. She co-hosted the highest rated late night series on Discovery Channel in 2013 and 2014, as well as hosted and produced several television pilots and series ("Project MyWorld" for DirecTV and "Private High Musical" for MTV.)

In 2012, Taryn launched a YouTube channel, growing more than 500,000 subscribers by 2014, and digital production company, Happy Cat Media. Through the channel, Taryn returned to making music, landing a comedy song ("Crush") on the US radio charts and hosting her own countdown show on Sirius XM Radio. Her production company focused on high-end, influencer-based content for brands and distributors such as Marriott, MovieTickets.com, Conde Nast, Snapchat, Vimeo, HTC Vive, and more. In 2017, she was featured as one of three women leaders in media for Ford's national "She's Got Drive" campaign.