Raised in the green mountains of Vermont, Shaina Taub is a New York-based songwriter and performer. Taub's original musical adaptation Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was commissioned by the Public Theater as part of the groundbreaking Public Works initiative and received a critically acclaimed production at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, was featured in workshop productions at CAP21 Theater Company, and New York University's mainstage season. Taub is currently writing 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. 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 Kazino production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 directed by Rachel Chavkin. She sang back-up for Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in O's psycho-opera, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann's Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House, and arranged/played the songs of Tom Waits in the American Repertory Theater's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Taub was in the original Off-Broadway cast of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown at New York Theatre Workshop, and is featured on the live cast album. She played the role of Emma Goldman in the Ragtime on Ellis Island concert, and performed in Jeanine Tesori's 2016 Off Center Jamboree.