Tiffany Denise Hobbs

Born in Augusta, GA, Tiffany is best know for her roles in "Ozark", "Atlanta" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7". She began dancing at Carol Colson Ballet School at the age of three and, ever since, performance art has been a major part of her life. At ten years old, she was accepted into the selective John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. It was there that she also began experimenting with the arts of theatre and music. For eight years, Tiffany dabbled in dance, drama and music at school and in the Augusta community, performing in a variety of shows and accomplishing significant recognition at various fine arts competitions in the southeast United States. Tiffany went on to study theatre at The University of Georgia. She appeared in many shows with the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, as well as the Department of Intercultural Affairs at UGA. She diversified her experiences by becoming active in campus organizations such as Alpha Psi Omega, a national theatre honor fraternity, where she served as president for a year. She also volunteered for AIDS Athens in her spare time. Tiffany spent the summer of 2007 as a vocal soloist and dancer at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. During the summer of 2008, Tiffany was one of a select few students chosen to study theatre at the Yale School of Drama. In both 2008 and 2009, she placed 2nd runner-up and was talent winner in the Miss University of Georgia pageant. In 2008, she also became Miss Black and Gold at UGA and moved on to become Miss Black and Gold Georgia and placed 1st runner-up at Miss Black and Gold Southeast in 2009. Tiffany graduated from the University of Georgia with two degrees- one in theatre and one in public relations. Tiffany was accepted as one of eight to attend Southern Methodist University's prestigious three-year M.F.A. acting program on full scholarship in the fall of 2009. While there, she appeared in many university shows and productions at the Dallas Theater Center, while also taking classes at the School of Contemporary Ballet Dallas and volunteering at Highland Park United Methodist Church. She was crowned Miss Hunt County in 2010 and went on the place 6th at the Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant, a preliminary to Miss America. Tiffany also spent the summer of 2011 performing three shows at the Summer Repertory Theatre in Santa Rosa, California. In 2012, she was invited to join the Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center, where she performed in a number of shows, taught through their education programs and served as their casting associate. Tiffany has also performed at several other regional theaters throughout her career, including the Alliance, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre. Tiffany appeared as Shenzi in the National Tour of Broadway's "The Lion King" from 2015 to 2017, during which time she also studied improvisation at The Second City. She was named Musclemania's Orange County Ms. Bikini and Ms. Figure in 2017. In 2018, Tiffany joined the Broadway musical, Waitress, spear-headed by Sara Bareilles, Jessie Nelson and Diane Paulus. In 2019, she was nominated by the Connecticut Critics Circle Awards as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Yale Repertory Theatre. That fall, she began studying with UCB. Tiffany also played Ursula in New York Shakespeare in Park's critically acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenny Leon. She has appeared in several television shows and movies since beginning her on-camera career in 2018.