Shaina Taub

"Shaina Taub's infectious music is a playful blend of Billy Joel's piano-driven pop, Aretha's soul and Regina Spektor's whimsy. Taub's imaginative lyricism is all her own though. She has creativity in spades" - NPR/WNYC

"A terrific vocalist." - New York Times

"Shaina Taub is utterly electric onstage." - San Jose News

"Irwin & Shiner have a special weapon in the person of Shaina Taub - sly and funny, sort of a young Judy Garland meets grown-up Lisa Simpson." - San Francisco Gate

"A powerhouse of quiet emotion." - NewStatesmen

Raised in the green mountains of Vermont, Shaina Taub is a New York-based performer and songwriter.

She plays regularly in New York with her band, the Shaina Taub Trio, packing venues such as Rockwood Musical Hall and SubCulture, and co-billing with such artists as Heather Christian & The Arbonauts, The Bengsons, and PigPen Theatre Company. Her sold-out Joe's Pub concert and album What Otters Do were featured on NPR/WNYC's Best of the Year listing, and she'll make her Lincoln Center solo concert debut in their American Songbook series this spring.

As a songwriter, Shaina won the 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant, and was Ars Nova's 2012 Composer-in-Residence. She's currently developing Robin, a new musical commissioned by Ars Nova, with playwright Jen Silverman, as well as writing the score for There's A House, a musical commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, with playwright Kim Rosenstock. Her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, was a finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award, and has been developed by the Yale Institute of Music Theatre, CAP21 Theater Company, and was featured in NYU's mainstage season. She has created songs for Walt Disney Imagineering, Sesame Street, and recently signed a publishing deal with Ghostlight / Sh-k-Boom Records and Razor & Tie, as the first artist in their new joint venture to represent songwriters that fuse theatrical and pop music. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is currently performing Shaina's song, The Tale of Bear & Otter, on her world concert tour.

As a performer, Shaina has traveled the world as a vocalist, actor and musician. She was Karen O's (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) vocal standby and back-up singer in her psycho-opera, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann's Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House. She earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her portrayal of Princess Mary in the the hit electropop opera, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and performed the songs of Tom Waits in the American Repertory Theater's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, for which she also arranged the music. She recently starred in the critically acclaimed west coast premiere of Bill Irwin and David Shiner's Old Hats, directed by Tina Landau, performing her original songs along with her trio.

A fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Colony, the Sundance Institute and the Johnny Mercer Songwriter's Project, winner of the 2013 MAC John Wallowitch Award, a TEDx conference speaker, and a featured artist in the Gc Watches ad campaign, Shaina served on the music theatre faculty at Pace University, and is a University Scholar alumnus of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.