Raised in the green mountains of Vermont, Shaina Taub is a New York-based
songwriter and performer. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the Public Theater and a signed artist with Atlantic
Records.
Taub's original musical adaptations of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You
Like Itwere commissioned by the Public Theater as part of their
groundbreaking Public
Works initiative, and both received critically acclaimed productions at the Delacorte Theater in
Central Park in which she also starred. The original cast album of her Drama Desk nominated score
for Twelfth Night was released by Craft Recordings, and both
of her Shakespeare musicals have gone on to be produced by Seattle Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, the
National Theatre in London and many schools and communities around the world. They are currently available for
worldwide licensing through Concord Theatricals.
Taub is currently writing Suffragist, a new musical about
Alice Paul and the American women's suffrage movement in the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th
amendment. She’s also writing lyrics for the upcoming Broadway musical The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Sir Elton John.
As a performer, Taub has traveled the world as a vocalist, actor and
musician. She starred in the west coast premiere and New York re-mounting of the Signature Theatre's hit
production Old Hats, created by Bill Irwin and David Shiner and directed by
Tina Landau, featuring Taub's original songs. She earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her
portrayal of Princess Mary in the Off-Broadway production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812directed by Rachel
Chavkin. She sang back-up for Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in O's psycho-opera, Stop The Virgens(St. Ann's Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House);
appeared in the original Off-Broadway cast of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown (New York Theatre
Workshop and the live cast album); and played the role of Emma Goldman in the Ragtime on Ellis
Island concert.
A fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Colony, the Sundance
Institute and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, Taub serves on the Dramatists Guild Council, and is an
alum of NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts. She is a proud member of the Resistance Revival Chorus and is an NYCLU Ambassador.
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