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Alix Taylor, BA

Adjunct Associate Professor

Affiliated Divisions:

Division of Film & Television Production

ALIX TAYLOR is a film producer living in Venice, CA with her daughter Daisy. She was born and raised in Los Angeles in the film business growing up on sets with her father Jud Taylor, who was an award winning television director. 

Prior to her producing career, Alix was a VP of Development for director Wes Craven, producer Doug Wick and at Universal Studios. Her on set experience began working as an assistant for Mike Nichols (Primary Colors with John Travolta & Emma Thompson) and Ulu Grosbard (The Deep End of the Ocean with Michelle Pfeiffer).

Most recently she produced NIGHT OF THE HUNTED for Wild Bunch, worked as a consultant on CRAWL with Alex Aja at Paramount and produced a web series for Black Pills titled URBAN NIGHTMARES. She has produced several films for Blumhouse: She made her first Western, IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE starring Ethan Hawke and John Travolta directed by Ti West which premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas in March 2016 to rave reviews. In addition, she produced PREYAMITYVILLE:THE AWAKENING for Blumhouse and Dimension Films and a faith based movie, THE RESURECTION OF GAVIN STONE. Her credits also include the #1 2013 Horror movie MANIAC starring Elijah Wood, which was chosen for the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.  With French horror director Alex Aja, she produced PIRANHA 3D, P2 and THE HILLS HAVE EYES. She produced FEAST for Wes Craven/Project Greenlight and HELL RIDE (a Quentin Tarantino biker movie with Dennis Hopper & David Carradine & Michael Madsen) for Dimension Films.

For four years, Alix was the Executive Director of the Film Program at the The Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Alix occasionally teaches a filmmaking workshop at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine and was a Visting Artist at the Ringling College of Design & Art in Sarasota, Florida. 

She is also a member of the Producer's Guild of America and is on the Advisory Board of the Overlook Film Festival taking place every year in New Orleans.