Shaina Taub is a two-time Tony Award-winning and Grammy-nominated songwriter and performer. She starred as Alice Paul in the Broadway production of "Suffs," for which she won Tony Awards for both Best Book and Best Score; Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Book, Best Score, and Best Musical; and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast album of "Suffs." She's an artist-in-residence at The Public Theater, where "Suffs" first premiered.

Shaina created and starred in acclaimed musical adaptations of "Twelfth Night" and "As You Like It" at Free Shakespeare in the Park that have since been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters and schools worldwide. She wrote the lyrics for "The Devil Wears Prada," with Sir Elton John, which opened in the West End in 2024. Her musical theater writing has earned her the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, Johnathan Larson Grant, Kleban Prize, Fred Ebb Award, and the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award. She performed in the original Off-Broadway productions of "Hadestown" and "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" and played Emma Goldman in "Ragtime" at New York City Centre Encores. She co-starred in Bill Irwin and David Shiner's "Old Hats" at the Signature Theatre, featuring her original songs.

Her three solo albums include "Visitors," "Die Happy," and "Songs of the Great Hill" on Atlantic Records, as well as original cast albums for "Twelfth Night," "As You Like It," and "Suffs." Her songwriting for television includes "Sesame Street," "Central Park," "Julie's Greenroom" starring Julie Andrews, and the Emmy-nominated opening number for the 2018 Tony Awards, co-written with Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban.

Shaina was included on the 2024 Time100 Next list of rising leaders and has been recognized for her activism with the Workers Circle Activism Award; the League of Women Voters’ Tribute Award; Project Kesher’s Kol Isha, Women’s Voice Award; Monumental Women’s Moving History Forward Award; NYU Trailblazer Award; and the Michael Friedman Freedom Award for activism from the NYCLU Artist Ambassadors program which she co-chairs.