On Thursday, March 6, Vermont-born composer, librettist, actress, singer, and two-time Tony Award winner Shaina Taub will visit UVM’s School of the Arts. The moderated discussion with Ms. Taub will take place at 5 pm in the UVM Recital Hall on Redstone Campus and is free and open to the public. The talk will be followed by a mini performance of some of Ms. Taub’s popular Broadway songs from her play Suffs and other projects.

As an activist whose work highlights marginalized and striving communities (Suffs is about the leaders of the suffragist movement), Shaina Taub’s visit is part of this year’s School of the Arts theme, Hidden Figures. 

Shaina 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.

She created and starred in acclaimed musical adaptations of Twelfth Night (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations) and As You Like It (Obie Award) at Free Shakespeare in the Park as part of the Public Works community that have since been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters and schools worldwide. With Sir Elton John, she wrote the lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada 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 (Lortel nomination), 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 has a longstanding concert residency at Joe’s Pub, made a solo debut in Lincoln Center’s Great American Songbook series, and has performed her music with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. She 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. 

A daughter of Vermont, Ms. Taub was born and raised in the Mad River Valley. UVM is delighted to welcome her back for this special event. The event is made possible by a the J.P. Marton Series, made possible by the generosity of Yvette Pigeon and Fred "Chico" Lager.