Shaina Taub

Raised in the green mountains of Vermont, Shaina Taub is a songwriter and performer. Her band, the Shaina Taub Trio, plays regularly in New York. Shaina was Ars Nova’s 2012 Composer-in-Residence, and her debut album, What Otters Do, was featured on NPR/WNYC’s Best of 2011 list. She’s currently writing the scores for two new musicals: There’s A House, with playwright Kim Rosenstock, commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Robin, with playwright Jen Silverman, commissioned by Ars Nova. She recently signed a publishing deal with Razor & Tie and Ghostlight / Sh-K-Boom records, as the first artist in their new joint venture to represent songwriters that fuse theatrical and pop music. Her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, has been developed by the Yale Institute of Music Theatre and was a finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award. She recently played Princess Mary in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and is currently performing in A.R.T.’s upcoming new production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Colony and the Sundance Institute, and is an alum of NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts.

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See highlights from the grant presentation here.

Read her New York Times profile here.

Buy her new album ‘Visitors’ here.