Tiffany is a CODA actor/producer/director determined to amplify the voices and the hands of the Deaf and CODA existence, which the Hearing world mutes every day.

Tiffany made her directorial debut in 2023 on the short film Fitting Descriptions by Dave Reidy, which has received several awards, nominations and official selections in IMDb film festivals. For her directing on the film, Tiffany won Best Female Filmmaker in Lulea International Film Festival, and for her acting, she was nominated for Best Actress in the Seattle Film Festival. Fitting Descriptions won Best American Short Film in the European Short Awards, and Best Short Film in the Riverside International Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Short Film in the Romford Film Festival.

In its screenplay phase, Fitting Descriptions won Silver for Best Short Script in Hollywood’s Independent Shorts Awards for October and Best 1st Time Screenwriter (Short) in the New York International Film Awards. It was also nominated for Best Script (Toronto Indie Shorts), Best Short Script (New York International Film Awards; Oniros Film Awards New York), Best Unproduced Screenplay (New York Independent Cinema Awards), and Best Unproduced Script (Toronto Film and Script Awards).

Fitting Descriptions is the inception for additional forthcoming stories about the underrepresented Deaf and CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) citizens in the US. Beyond the newly mainstreamed heroes from the films Sound of Metal and CODA, there exists a dark underbelly of Deaf antiheroes and villains waiting to emerge.

As an actor Tiffany plays one of the leads (Tessa Greenwood) in Good Guy with a Gun, which just completed its successful film festival run and is now available on streaming on all major platforms. For the role of Tessa, she won best supporting actress at Romford Film Festival and at Ceylon International Film Festival, best actress at Asia Film Art International Film Festival, and was nominated for best actress at Chicago’s Midwest Film Festival and Las Vegas International Film & Screenplay Festival.

Tiffany also plays a recurring role opposite Courtney B. Vance in the upcoming season 2 of 61st Street, and as a supporting role in Mr. Vance’s film Heist 88. She plays the female lead in three films currently in post-production: Survivor, Soldier, Sinner, Savior; Mi-Mi Shu-Shu; and Grave Expectations.

Tiffany is theatre-trained and Chicago-based. She was nominated for a Jeff Award for her performance in Yen at Raven Theatre (which the New York Times cited in its 2019 “Picks For the Year’s Best.”) She studied acting in Moscow, Athens, and the United States, and has performed on stages including Goodman, Writers, Victory Gardens, Raven, Trap Door, and Meadow Brook, among others. Other favorite stage roles include May in Fool For Love and Phèdre in Trap Door Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of Phèdre. Tiffany is a Trap Door Theatre artist caesura and toured Romania and Poland with their production of A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians.

Her favorite kind of film and television role is the kind that can approximate the gritty, dark and terrifying characters haunting the Chicago Storefront experimental stages like Trap Door.