Two-time Tony winner Shaina Taub, who wrote the musical score and book for “Suffs,” will speak on “Theater as a Tool for Social Change” Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Donnell Theatre in the BGSU Wolfe Center For The Arts.
The free public talk is presented as part of the Edwin H. Simmons Creative Minds Series.
Taub “reignited public dialogue about women’s rights, political power, and unfinished progress with Suffs, her landmark Broadway musical about American suffragists. The show, in which she also starred as suffragist Alice Paul, won her two Tony Awards, a Grammy nomination, and a devoted following across generations.”
She created and starred in acclaimed musical adaptations of “Twelfth Night” and” As You Like It” at Free Shakespeare in the Park. She wrote the lyrics for “The Devil Wears Prada,” with Sir Elton John, which opened in the West End in 2024.
Hailing from Waitsfield in Vermont’s Mad River Valley, Taub began her career performing in the original Off-Broadway casts of “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” and “Hadestown.”
In 2014, she co-starred with Bill Irwin and David Shiner in the Signature Theatre’s “Old Hats,” a hit production that featured her original songs and prompted SFGate to hail her as “sly and funny, sort of a young Judy Garland meets grown-up Lisa Simpson.”
