A “charmingly goofy” soprano (The Washington Post) who exhibits “stunning singing and acting” (The Classical Voice of North Carolina) and "unparalleled stagecraft" (DC Metro Theater Arts), Shaina is an active theater, opera, and concert performer.  She has performed across the mid-Atlantic with companies including Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Virginia Repertory Theater, Washington Concert Opera, Long Leaf Opera, Annapolis Chamber Orchestra, Opera Company of Northern Virginia, Victorian Lyric Opera, Aurora Opera Theater, Summer Garden Opera, Bel Cantanti, and Maryland Lyric Opera.

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   Past engagements include Rose in Jake Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus with the Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Yum-Yum (Mikado) at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Creative Cauldron’s Helen Hayes nominated production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and the Beggar Woman in Landless Theatre's progressive metal production of Sweeney Todd, which was sanctioned by Stephen Sondheim.

 

   Operatic roles include Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Marianne in Tartuffe, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro, and Mademoiselle Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor. Moving into fuller repertoire, Shaina recently covered Mimì (La bohème) and Tosca with Summer Garden Opera and Opera Camerata of Washington respectively.  She has also performed Johanna (Sweeney Todd), Rosa Bud (Drood), Isabel (Scrooge), Lady Larkin (Once Upon a Mattress).

 

   Shaina sings regularly with the choruses of Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, and Maryland Lyric Opera and the Maryland Opera education and outreach program. She maintains a private voice studio near Lovejoy Park in Washington, D.C. 

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  During the pandemic, when it's not mosquito season, you can often find Shaina singing on her porch for her neighbors.