Taryn Stickrath-Hutt Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Taryn Stickrath-Hutt
Directing
Biography
Taryn is a filmmaker, painter, queer feminist, and exhausted mother with experience in costuming, theme park design, children’s theater, and education. She met her longtime collaborator Dan while working at Walt Disney Imagineering where they contributed to the Frozen Ever After attraction in Orlando. She earned a Themed Entertainment Award for her work on Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway (Orlando). Taryn and Dan are currently promoting their animated short, The Finger Wife (summer 2025). She wrote and directed the short film Double Feature in 2019, inspired by her love of old screwball comedies and theaters that still project 35mm. Taryn is also a musician and painter, and her personal essay about being a queer Buddhist was published by Lion’s Roar in 2024 as a featured article for Pride Month. She was raised in Orange County, CA and now lives in Chicago, though her heart will always belong to Los Angeles.
Filmography Movies
Production
The Finger Wife
The Finger Wife is a domestic horror story with a delicious sense of humor - part 2D hand-drawn animation, part stop-motion, and all bizarro feminist propaganda! It’s 1975. A smart, ambitious woman (The Wife) is stuck in the kitchen. When feisty, martini-drinking Betty steps out of a 1950s cookbook, The Wife is confronted with what she really wants out of life (it's not to make another meatloaf). Faced with Betty’s tough love and in a desperate effort to find one goddamn minute for herself, The Wife takes matters into her own hands, with gleefully horrific results.
The Finger Wife
The Finger Wife is a domestic horror story with a delicious sense of humor - part 2D hand-drawn animation, part stop-motion, and all bizarro feminist propaganda! It’s 1975. A smart, ambitious woman (The Wife) is stuck in the kitchen. When feisty, martini-drinking Betty steps out of a 1950s cookbook, The Wife is confronted with what she really wants out of life (it's not to make another meatloaf). Faced with Betty’s tough love and in a desperate effort to find one goddamn minute for herself, The Wife takes matters into her own hands, with gleefully horrific results.