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 entertainment and learning with a Jewish heart and soul, and Chicago4Real, a just-launched Twitch.tv channel featuring seven Chicago creatives, creating authentic Chicago entertainment.
A proud #Beatlenerd, T.J. co-hosts the weekly Untitled Beatles Podcast. Other credits include: Blank! The Musical (director/co-creator, off-Broadway, 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.
Hosting/emceeing and creative direction includes hundreds of corporate industrials and fundraisers, both for Second City Works and as a freelancer; and currently hosting/emceeing over Zoom and other platforms where we now spend our entire lives. With no end in sight. And winter coming. Mind if I weep?
T.J. is a proud alumnus of the Latin School of Chicago, Emerson College, and Harand Camp Of The Theatre Arts.
A proud #Beatlenerd, T.J. co-hosts the weekly Untitled Beatles Podcast. Other credits include: Blank! The Musical (director/co-creator, off-Broadway, 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.
Hosting/emceeing and creative direction includes hundreds of corporate industrials and fundraisers, both for Second City Works and as a freelancer; and currently hosting/emceeing over Zoom and other platforms where we now spend our entire lives. With no end in sight. And winter coming. Mind if I weep?
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