MEET THE WRITING TEAM
BECKI TOTH
music/lyrics
Becki is a professional singer, actor, director, and teacher, performing with City Theater, the Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Public Theater, PICT, Front Porch Theatricals, and many other local and regional companies. Becki was voted Pittsburgh's Favorite Actress twice by the readers of Pittsburgh's City Paper. Becki is the managing director and founding member of the chamber choir Voces Solis. She teaches at Point Park University and the CMU Pre-College Program in addition to her position as Lecturer in Musical Theater at the University of Pittsburgh.
BRAD KEMP
music/lyrics
Brad owns and operates Second Bedroom Studio where he works as music composer and producer in Chicago. He has collaborated on projects with notable artists such as Yvie Oddly (RuPaul's Drag Race) and Chris Redd (SNL). He currently composes music for iHeartRadio podcasts and has written original music for over 20 musicals. Brad is a member of the comedy hip hop trio Handsome Naked (NBC's Bring The Funny, Billboard Comedy Top 10, #2 iTunes comedy chart).
T.J. PIEFFER
book/lyrics
T.J. is a writer/performer currently based in Chicago where he eats a lot of bread based food. He has studied and performed comedy at UCB NY, The Annoyance, iO Chicago, and The Second City. His musical, “Salem”, was a part of the 2023 Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Writer’s Grove at Goodspeed Musicals. He is the recipient of the 2014 Carnegie Mellon University’s Pre-College program scholarship and the 2016 Ron Norinksy Grant. His TV pilot “1385” was a 2021 AFF Runner Up. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Columbia College Chicago, where he studied Television Writing and Theatre.