SUFFS's Shaina Taub Wins Tony Award For Best Original Score Written For The Theatre

Time to march to the beat of this score! Shaina Taub has won the Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre for Suffs. Taub was crowned onstage at the 2024 Tony Awards held at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in New York City. Taub beat out fellow nominees Adam Guettel for Days of Wine and Roses, David Byrne & Fatboy Slim for Here Lies Love, Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine for The Outsiders, and Will Butler for Stereophonic.

With book, music, and lyrics by Kleban Prize, Fred Ebb Award, Jonathan Larson Grant recipient, and now Tony Winner Shaina Taub, Suffs features direction by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman, and choreography by Mayte Natalio.

It’s 1913 and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists — “Suffs,” as they call themselves — and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we’re reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future.