Tiffany Bedwell

Tiffany is a theatre-trained, Chicago-based actor. 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 performed on regional stages including Goodman, Writers, Victory Gardens, Raven, Trap Door, and Meadow Brook, among others. She was honored to be the principal actor of Allstate's Purple Purse Foundation's America's Largest Prison Break awareness campaign about domestic abuse's lesser-known financial component. Besides Maggie in Yen, other favorite stage roles include May in Fool For Love by Sam Shepard, directed by Zeljko Djukic, with Facility Theatre at Chopin Theatre in Chicago; and Phèdre in Trap Door Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Phèdre, directed by Nicole Wiesner. She is a Trap Door Theatre artist caesura and, in addition to Phèdre, has appeared on the Trap Door stage in Eva Peron, The Beastly Bombing, The Unconquered, Anger/Fly, The Arsonists, The Unveiling / Dozens of Cousins, No Matter How Hard We Try and A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, which toured Romania and Poland. Her favorite kind of film and television role is the kind that can approximate the gritty, dark and terrifying characters of the Chicago Storefront Experimental Stages like Trap Door. Tiffany earned her b.f.a. from Wayne State University (Detroit). Both of Tiffany's parents are Deaf, and she has many Deaf family members. She has a passion for telling stories about Deaf culture and the "c.o.d.a." (child of Deaf adults) life, including what it's like to fall asleep as a child jostling around in your mother's arms while she chats away hosting a party with dozens of Deaf people talking ASL all at the same time... but in total silence to the Hearing.