Director/Producer
Taber recently directed the Wavelength Productions feature Let Me Be Me, the coming-of-age story of a young man who, as a child, underwent a unique and controversial treatment for autism, and the short film Stranger/Sister about two ordinary women, one Muslim and one Jewish, who join together to fight hate.
She has produced many documentaries including two 2024 Tribeca Festival premieres, Black Table and To Be Destroyed. Black Table examines affirmative action at elite colleges through the lens of the Yale class of 1997 and To Be Destroyed follows acclaimed author Dave Eggers to Rapid City, South Dakota after his novel The Circle is banned there. She field-produced The Last Republican which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and tells the story of Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger’s final year in Washington after voting to impeach Donald Trump for crimes related to the January 6th insurrection.
Other projects include Siempre, Luis (Sundance 2020/HBO), which follows Luis Miranda, the father of Lin-Manuel Miranda, as he attempts to mount a production of “Hamilton” in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the 2-part PBS special Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death and the award-winning Milwaukee 53206. She has worked on films for the PBS series FRONTLINE including Life and Death in Assisted Living, Dollars and Dentists, and The Child Cases, and she was a co-producer on the four-part PBS NOVA series: The Fabric of the Cosmos. Taber co-produced the Emmy-award-winning feature documentary Homestretch.
She is currently working on a film about the golden age of hip-hop on Long Island and a series about young democracy advocates around the globe.
Taber is an alumnus of Hampshire College and lives in Sea Cliff, NY.