Shaina Taub to Perform at Joe's Pub, 11/19

After a year of traveling and performing all over the country, singer/songwriter Shaina Taub - winner of the 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant - returns home to New York to present an evening of her original songs with her band, on Wednesday November 19 at 7:00 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. Shaina will be joined by her bandmates bassist/singer Mike Brun (Mr. Burns, Old Hats) and drummer/singer Jacob Colin Cohen (One Man, Two Guv'nors; Old Hats), pianist David Farrell Melton and singer Grace McLean (Bedbugs!!!), Catherine Brookman (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and Starr Busby will make special guest appearances. The set list will features selections from Old Hats, There's A House, Robin, songs from Taub's two EPs, and many brand new songs as well.

Shaina Taub, raised in the green mountains of Vermont, is a New York-based performer and songwriter. She was Ars Nova's 2012 Composer-in-Residence, a recipient of the 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant, and her debut album, What Otters Do, was featured on NPR/WNYC's Best of 2011 list. She released an EP with her trio, with whom she plays regularly in New York. She's currently writing scores for two new musicals: There's A House, with playwright Kim Rosenstock, commissioned by the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Robin, with playwright Jen Silverman, commissioned by Ars Nova, and her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, has been developed by the Yale Institute of Music Theatre and was featured in NYU's undergraduate main-stage season. She has created songs for Walt Disney Imagineering, 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. She will make her Lincoln Center concert debut in their American Songbook series this spring.

As a performer, Shaina has traveled the world in her multi-faceted capacities 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, and has appeared on stages Abu Dhabi to Nashville, and venues including the Beacon Theater, Madison Square Garden and the Kennedy Center. She was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her portrayal of Princess Mary in the critically-acclaimed electropop opera, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and performed and arranged the songs of Tom Waits in American Repertory Theater's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Teller, of Penn & Teller fame. She recently starred in Old Hats with Bill Irwin and David Shiner, directed by Tina Landau at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, which featured her original songs.

A fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Colony, the Sundance Institute and the Johnny Mercer Songwriter's Project, a recent TEDx conference speaker, and a featured artist in Gc Watches new 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.

JOE'S PUB at The Public Theater is located at 425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th and Astor Place) NYC, adjacent to The Public Theater. For tickets - which cost $14 - call (212) 967-7555 from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM daily or visit joespub.com, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, which opens daily at 2pm.