T.J. Pieffer is a New York based writer and performer. He has studied and performed at comedy institutions and theaters around the country including

The Second City Conservatory, The Den, The Annoyance, UCB, The PIT, Omaha Comedy Festival, and Playwrights Horizons. 

 

His original musical comedy, ABDUCTION, has received numerous readings, workshops, and productions including MTAP, The New York Musical Festival,

New Musicals Inc., and a licensed production at the University of Pittsburgh. His original musical comedy, SALEM, was selected for the 2023 Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Writer’s Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, received an industry workshop in January 2024 in New York City, and a concert at The Green Room 42. His original full length play, PRAIRIE PARK, received an industry reading in New York City in May 2025.

T.J. is a contributor to the satirical online publication The Broadway Beat. He is

a recipient of the 2016 Ron Norinksy Grant and the 2014 Carnegie Mellon University’s Pre-College Scholarship. His original TV pilot with Shelby Solla “1385” was a 2021 Austin Film Festival Runner Up. While he may look 12, T.J. has actually graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College Chicago where he studied Television Writing and Theatre. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and ASCAP. 

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