Video: 'There's a Place for Us as Female Creators.' Shaina Taub on Her Tony Win for Suffs

Keep marching! Shaina Taub has received her first Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Suffs, the suffragist movement musical she penned and stars in. Taub is also up for Best Score at the 2024 awards. Watch the multi-hyphenate react to her win in the video above, in an interview with Playbill's Jeffrey Vizcaíno.

"There's a place for us as female creators, especially as composers, and you don't have to pick a lane," Taub says. "Early in my career, I was like, 'Okay I'm acting, okay I'm composing, maybe I need to pick a box, [I'm] trying to do too much, people are going to think I'm jack of all trades master of none,' whatever. But I saw so many male creatives, wonderful male creatives, never question the fact that they were multi-hyphenate. So I think when I finally started to embrace that I was a multi-hyphenate, as a feature, not a bug, I finally started making my best work and getting the best opportunities that I'd had. Because I was standing, and owning that. If you love more than one discipline, you don't have to pick."

Suffs was nominated for six awards, including Best Musical, Featured Actress in a Musical (for Nikki M. James), Direction of a Musical (for Leigh Silverman), and Costume Design of a Musical (for Paul Tazewell).

READ: Inside the Process of Writing (and Rewriting) the 36 Songs of Suffs

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