Shaina Taub

Wrote the book, music and lyrics for Suffs, a musical about the women's suffrage movement in which she also starred as activist Alice Paul, and won two 2024 Tony Awards for it — Best Book and Best Score. Before that breakthrough she spent years as a fixture of the Public Theater's free Shakespeare-in-the-park programming, composing and performing in musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and As You Like It, and later wrote lyrics alongside Elton John for a stage adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada. She received the $100,000 Kleban Prize in 2019.