T.J. SHANOFF
COMEDY - CREATIVE DIRECTION - MUSIC
COMEDY - CREATIVE DIRECTION - MUSIC
Hi there, I’m T.J.! Thanks for stopping by. I’m a longtime musical comedian, emcee, and creative director. For 25 years, I’ve created shows and material for The Second City, including Rod Blagojevich Superstar and the theater’s 50th Anniversary tour.
I’ve hosted and creative directed hundreds of live and virtual industrials and fundraisers, in myriad roles: energetically teeing-up a CFO, improvising comedy songs, emceeing an auction, and, on a few occasions, happily taking requests for 80’s piano rock classics.
Most Friday and Saturday nights, you’ll find me at the beautiful Chicago Magic Lounge, as musical director of their Signature Shows.
Alongside Katie Klein, I’m the co-founder of The Shalom Collaboration. We create and perform Jewish-themed improv comedy and improv-based communications training. You’ll kvell, I swear...
Since age 5, I’ve been diehard fan of an indie/niche rock band called The Beatles. Heard of ‘em? I get to gab about them weekly alongside Tony Mendoza and Casey Baker on The Untitled Beatles Podcast.
I’m an ensemble member of comedy and media collective Chicago4Real on Twitch, where I co-host the improviser-centric NBA talk show Hoops4Real.
Favorite credits include: Blank! The Musical (director & co-creator), The Roof Is On Fiddler (co-writer), The Chicago Emmy Awards (musical director), City Winery's Downtown Seder (performer), and Anthony Rizzo's Laugh Off For Cancer (musical director).
I’ve co-hosted a weekend talk show with Susanna Homan on WCKG-FM (#HeGone), morning drive on Sporting News Radio (#SheGone), and did a week with Shadoe Stevens on WLUP (#TheyGone), so I am an expert in ushering in a legendary radio station’s final days.
I’m a native Chicagoan, and proud alumnus of The Latin School of Chicago, Emerson College, and Harand Camp Of The Theatre Arts.
Let’s connect about potential opportunities or just The Beatles, that’d. be great, too!
-T.J.
I’ve hosted and creative directed hundreds of live and virtual industrials and fundraisers, in myriad roles: energetically teeing-up a CFO, improvising comedy songs, emceeing an auction, and, on a few occasions, happily taking requests for 80’s piano rock classics.
Most Friday and Saturday nights, you’ll find me at the beautiful Chicago Magic Lounge, as musical director of their Signature Shows.
Alongside Katie Klein, I’m the co-founder of The Shalom Collaboration. We create and perform Jewish-themed improv comedy and improv-based communications training. You’ll kvell, I swear...
Since age 5, I’ve been diehard fan of an indie/niche rock band called The Beatles. Heard of ‘em? I get to gab about them weekly alongside Tony Mendoza and Casey Baker on The Untitled Beatles Podcast.
I’m an ensemble member of comedy and media collective Chicago4Real on Twitch, where I co-host the improviser-centric NBA talk show Hoops4Real.
Favorite credits include: Blank! The Musical (director & co-creator), The Roof Is On Fiddler (co-writer), The Chicago Emmy Awards (musical director), City Winery's Downtown Seder (performer), and Anthony Rizzo's Laugh Off For Cancer (musical director).
I’ve co-hosted a weekend talk show with Susanna Homan on WCKG-FM (#HeGone), morning drive on Sporting News Radio (#SheGone), and did a week with Shadoe Stevens on WLUP (#TheyGone), so I am an expert in ushering in a legendary radio station’s final days.
I’m a native Chicagoan, and proud alumnus of The Latin School of Chicago, Emerson College, and Harand Camp Of The Theatre Arts.
Let’s connect about potential opportunities or just The Beatles, that’d. be great, too!
-T.J.
Cover photo credit: Sheri Whitko, - "An Interview With Martin Short", Lynn Sage Foundation, Chicago