After graduating college in 2010, David Yontz exploded onto the Chicago music scene like a stink bomb--alarming everybody in earshot with his unseemly sound, then drawing a steady tide of grimaces and curses.

His first few years in the big city were spent toiling in obscurity, performing original comedic songs in bars that ranged in character from "divey" to "health hazard". However, fate would have it that in one such den of libations he encountered a group of improvisers who set him up with his first ever music-directing gig at the famed Annoyance Theatre, officially expanding the ways he was not making money at the time.

One job led to another, and before Yontz knew it he was regularly providing piano accompaniment for such high profile stages as iO Theatre, Comedy Sportz Chicago, The Chicago Magic Lounge and The Second City.  Eventually, the number of steady gigs reached a point where Yontz just kinda woke up one day and realized he was a professional sketch and improv music director by trade. 

That wake up time was 4 pm.

Professional highlights from his years on the piano bench include winning the Deli Magazine Chicago Artist of the Month poll in October 2013,  receiving artist grants from The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in 2015 and 2019, and understudying the Second City Mainstage revues 109, 110, 111 and 112 from 2021 to present.