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T.J. SHANOFF
​COMEDY.    CREATIVE DIRECTION.    MUSIC.    
Chicago4Real on Twitch
The Shalom Collaboration
Untitled Beatles Podcast
Blank! The Musical
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 entertainment and learning with a Jewish heart and soul, and Chicago4Real, a just-launched Twitch.tv channel featuring seven Chicago creatives, where T.J. hosts "Hoops4Real" Tuesdays at 4p CT, "PMChicago4Real" Wednesdays at 4p CT, and "Shalom! Chicago" Sundays at 12p CT. 

A life-long Beatles-nerd, T.J. currently co-hosts the weekly 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 direction includes: The Chicago Emmy Awards, the Chicago Magic Lounge, iO, 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. 
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Cover photo credit: Sheri Whitko, - "An Interview With Martin Short", Lynn Sage Foundation, Chicago
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