Hayley Tibbenham
Writer | Performer | Filmmaker
About
Hayley Tibbenham writes bold, twisty dramas about the things she loves most – sweeping romance, messy families, and deeply resilient women. The daughter of two Detroit engineers, Hayley rebelled by attending music school with plans to become an opera singer. In between memorizing Mozart, she began to explore her voice on the page and wrote her first short, later selected for the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. Since then, her work has earned the Humanitas Prize for College Drama and was named a Top 50 semifinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship. Most recently, Hayley staffed on 101 Studios' DUTTON RANCH, the hit YELLOWSTONE spinoff centered on Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler. She is a proud alumna of the University of Michigan and the American Film Institute Screenwriting Program.
Fimography
Short Film – Writer, Director, Actor
When a mysterious teenage girl begins to fall for the high school golden boy, his attempts to get to know her threaten to expose something much stranger behind her shell of insecurity.
Independently financed and produced short. Now streaming on FilmDoo.
Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner
Detroit SheTown Film Festival Selection
Orlando Film Festival Selection
Hell's Half Mile Film Festival Selection
Short Film – Co-Writer
After a sudden encounter with a mysterious student, a tenured ornithologist and war veteran is forced to remember the realities of his past.
AFI thesis film. Available to view here.
Leeds International Film Festival Selection
CAA Moebius Showcase Selection
LA Shorts Film Festival Selection
Stage
THE ROMANTIC
One Woman Show – Writer, Performer
Fall of 1856. Over the last three months, pianist and composer Clara Schumann has buried her mega-famous (and syphilis-addled) husband, ended her affair with his charming protégé, and continued to raise her eight children by herself.
Tonight, the mythic "muse" to some of history's most famous composers returns to the stage with some thoughts and songs of her own...
An original play featuring art songs by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
Representation
Joseph Cavalier
Ethan Neale
Michelle Goldfine Houghton
Jonny Gutman
Sam Fischer