About Us

We are parents and professional theatre artists based in the Louisville, Kentucky and Southern Indiana area.

Scott Bradley

Scott, Resident Music Director at Derby Dinner Playhouse, has enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with his friends & colleagues Matt & Tina Jo Wallace, composing the score to seven (and counting!) TYA musicals, as well as Kentucky Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Previously, Scott was Artistic Director at Jenny Wiley Theatre (KY), directing over twenty-five large scale productions & producing seven seasons in rotating repertory. While serving as JWT’s composer-in-residence, Scott composed & arranged scores for The Legend of Jenny Wiley, J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, & an orignal version of Pinocchio!, as well as his first TYA score, Zop!. He has composed incidental music for creator of CBS sci-fi hit Extant and NBC’s Reverie Mickey Fisher’s plays Frankenstein and Dracula, as well as music for Fisher’s films Summer Nuts and Autumn Mixtape. Scott composed the score for Joe Landry’s Vintage Hitchcock – A Live Radio Play, as well as Abilene Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest. Highly in-demand as a music director, pianist, arranger, conductor, composer & performer, Scott – a proud east Kentuckian – attended Morehead State University. Scott dedicates his work & life to his wife Michelle & his children Smith & Kate. 

Tina Jo Wallace

Tina Jo has served as Producing Artistic Director of Derby Dinner Playhouse since March 2025. Before that, she was Director of Children’s Theatre and Audience Development with the company since 2013.  In addition to producing their Children’s Musical Theatre Series, she headed their Performing Arts Academy which serves hundreds of students each year in their camps and classes.  Tina Jo has acted in, directed or written over 90 shows at Derby Dinner and was a Footnote for 10 years. Before making her home at Derby Dinner Playhouse she worked at various theatres around the country as an actress and teacher including Kentucky Shakespeare and the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte.  She has her BFA in Theatre from Syracuse University.  She currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky with her best friend and husband, Matt, and their best creations and dreams come true, Elizabeth & Andy!

Matt Wallace

Matt has served as Producing Artistic Director of Kentucky Shakespeare, since 2013, where he has directed more than 40 productions. Since 2008, Matt has also been Director of Shakespeare Behind Bars Kentucky Programs and directed thirteen productions/seasons of the program. Matt was an actor and Director of Children’s Theatre and Audience Development at Derby Dinner Playhouse for ten years where he performed, directed, and co-wrote several musicals for young audiences. He has also directed and acted at Chicago theaters and across the Midwest. He earned a BFA in Regional Theatre/Acting from the Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts in St. Louis. Creating these musicals with Tina Jo and Scott, as all of their children have grown, has been a joy for Matt – as a dad and an artist!

Want to learn more?

Email us at WallaceBradleyMusicals@gmail.com