T.J. SHANOFF
COMEDY. CREATIVE DIRECTION. MUSIC.
COMEDY. CREATIVE DIRECTION. MUSIC.
T.J. is a Chicago-born and based musical entertainer, producer, and creative director, who spent over 20 years at The Second City. T.J. is a co-founder of The Shalom Collaboration, which specializes in virtual and live entertainment and learning with a Jewish heart and soul, and Chicago4Real, a production company and Twitch.tv channel featuring seven Chicago creatives. T.J. co-hosts the NBA talk show "Hoops4Real" Tuesdays at 4p CT, and "Shalom! Chicago", Sundays at 12p CT on www.twitch.tv/Chicago4Real.
A lifelong and credibly insane Beatles fanatic, T.J. co-hosts the Untitled Beatles Podcast. Other credits include: Blank! The Musical (director/co-creator, New World Stages), The Second City's Rod Blagojevich Superstar (music & lyrics), and The Second City's 50th Anniversary Tour (director, musical director). Music direction includes: The Chicago and Midwest Emmy Awards, the Chicago Magic Lounge, Annoyance Theater, and Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo's Laugh Off For Cancer event.
Musical hosting/emceeing and creative direction includes hundreds of corporate industrials and fundraisers, both for Second City Works and as a freelancer; and currently over Zoom and other platforms where we now spend our entire lives.
T.J. is a proud alumnus of the Latin School of Chicago, Emerson College, and Harand Camp Of The Theatre Arts.
A lifelong and credibly insane Beatles fanatic, T.J. co-hosts the Untitled Beatles Podcast. Other credits include: Blank! The Musical (director/co-creator, New World Stages), The Second City's Rod Blagojevich Superstar (music & lyrics), and The Second City's 50th Anniversary Tour (director, musical director). Music direction includes: The Chicago and Midwest Emmy Awards, the Chicago Magic Lounge, Annoyance Theater, and Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo's Laugh Off For Cancer event.
Musical hosting/emceeing and creative direction includes hundreds of corporate industrials and fundraisers, both for Second City Works and as a freelancer; and currently over Zoom and other platforms where we now spend our entire lives.
T.J. is a proud alumnus of the Latin School of Chicago, Emerson College, and Harand Camp Of The Theatre Arts.
Cover photo credit: Sheri Whitko, - "An Interview With Martin Short", Lynn Sage Foundation, Chicago