Biography

Tiffany Nichole Greene is a Freelance Director and Resident Director of HAMILTON, an American Musical. She is also a leader, creator, and aggressive explorer of the human condition as it relates to relationships and the injustices of this world. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep, where her hunger for a deeper involvement in story-building began. While in graduate school, Tiffany began to cultivate the skills of a great director. She became a mad scientist in her pursuit of opportunities to observe, investigate, explore, and experiment with her newly defined artistry. 

Tiffany is a NYTimes Pick, Lincoln Center Directors Lab Alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab Alum, two-time Drama League Finalist, and a proud member of SDC. While Tiffany works on a great variety of genres in theatres across the nation, she is particularly dedicated to the continued development of new works and the play development process.

Philosophy

I am fascinated by the conversation between non-verbal communication (behavior) and spoken text and how the two support, betray, and ultimately expose one another: the two are like strange lovers. I am also fascinated by fear and its direct ties to failure, whether it be failing ourselves or one another. I work from a place of Truth and Fear. Pain and Vulnerability. Light. Freedom. Play. I find Truth in the Absurd and find “Realism” to be a deceptive filter; I find it all to be very human.

The Absurd is where we hide our secrets. Light can be found in the darkest of corners. Too much will blind you. 

New works and the classics must stay in dialogue with one another. (When I say "the classics", I refer to classical works as well as twentieth century classics.) New plays are essential to the growth of theatre as is the presence of a face/soul/body/essence like mine in the American Theatre's collection of great classics. A presence that challenges the default image of these great European/American plays. New plays allow us the unique privilege of deconstructing, reconstructing, reinventing, evolving, weaving in a new narrative; this in turn inspires us to go back and revisit the classics that inspired us to begin with. It's important to revisit these plays that we think we know so well and infuse them with new perspectives that allow the text to breathe through new lungs and see through fresh eyes that have witnessed evolution. Full circles. Forward motion.

How do we communicate what we'd like to know... 

How do we communicate our inadequacies...