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SHAINA TAUB is a songwriter/performer whose honors include two Tony Awards, an Obie Award, and nominations for a Grammy and an Emmy. An artist-in-residence at the Public Theater, she creates original music and theater for both stage and concert. She wrote, composed, and performed in her Broadway musical Suffs, which won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score and earned multiple other honors, including Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, along with a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album. Suffs toured nationally and was filmed for PBS Great Performances. For Shakespeare in the Park’s Public Works program, Taub created and performed in acclaimed musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and As You Like It, which have since received hundreds of productions worldwide. Her solo albums include Songs of the Great Hill on Atlantic Records, and she has performed her music everywhere from Joe’s Pub—where she maintains a long-running residency—to Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops and Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. Her songwriting honors include the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Kleban Prize, Fred Ebb Award, and Frederick Loewe Award. She played Emma Goldman in Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of Ragtime. Other stage credits include the Off-Broadway productions of Hadestown, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Lortel nomination), and Old Hats, featuring her songs. Named to the 2024 TIME100 Next list, Taub has also been recognized with the Workers Circle Activism Award, League of Women Voters’ Tribute Award, and the NYCLU’s Michael Friedman Freedom Award, where she co-chairs the Artist Ambassadors program. She holds an honorary doctorate from Manhattan School of Music. www.shainataub.com