2024 Creative LIAisons Coaches
Carol Dunn
Executive ProducerHuman
Santa Monica
Carol Dunn currently serves as Managing Director of Barking Owl, a music, audio post-production and sonic branding company that has garnered every major advertising award, from Cannes to Clios, for iconic brands like Nike, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Apple, Google and many more.
Carol develops projects, oversees audio production and builds brand partnerships.
Her music career stretches over 30 years, which began on the label side as a switchboard operator at Capitol Records. By being inquisitive and sharing her love of music & film with renowned music supervisor, Karyn Rachtman (Clueless, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty) she was able to parlay that position from answering phones to sitting behind her own desk and helping produce notable soundtracks such as, Boogie Nights, Stealing Beauty, Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Mystery Men, Bulworth, Rugats I & II and Office Space to name a few. As the landscape of how music is delivered began moving from actual records & CDs to streams and downloads, her career moved over to music publishing, where she sharpened her synch chops even further. From publishing, she moved directly onto the advertising side and has not looked back. Her music house career started at Amber Music in 2006 and continued with Asche & Spencer, Squeak E Clean and most recently with Human.
Carol imagines music as another character in the film. This passion for marrying music to film naturally brought her to the audio post side of commercial making where her eyes and ears have been put to great use producing projects for brands like Toyota, Doritos, Samsung, Google, Nike, Uber, Nike Women, Cadillac and Coca Cola. When she’s not overseeing production (and still reading Murakami’s 1Q84), she is tirelessly working for further diversity and inclusion within the industry of advertising.
Carol develops projects, oversees audio production and builds brand partnerships.
Her music career stretches over 30 years, which began on the label side as a switchboard operator at Capitol Records. By being inquisitive and sharing her love of music & film with renowned music supervisor, Karyn Rachtman (Clueless, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty) she was able to parlay that position from answering phones to sitting behind her own desk and helping produce notable soundtracks such as, Boogie Nights, Stealing Beauty, Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Mystery Men, Bulworth, Rugats I & II and Office Space to name a few. As the landscape of how music is delivered began moving from actual records & CDs to streams and downloads, her career moved over to music publishing, where she sharpened her synch chops even further. From publishing, she moved directly onto the advertising side and has not looked back. Her music house career started at Amber Music in 2006 and continued with Asche & Spencer, Squeak E Clean and most recently with Human.
Carol imagines music as another character in the film. This passion for marrying music to film naturally brought her to the audio post side of commercial making where her eyes and ears have been put to great use producing projects for brands like Toyota, Doritos, Samsung, Google, Nike, Uber, Nike Women, Cadillac and Coca Cola. When she’s not overseeing production (and still reading Murakami’s 1Q84), she is tirelessly working for further diversity and inclusion within the industry of advertising.