Tisa Weiss Hibbs

Tisa Weiss Hibbs is an actress and lifelong advocate for the arts. She grew up in Tyler, began dancing and singing as one of Disney World’s “Kids of the Kingdom” while still a teenager, and graduated with honors and a BFA from SMU.  Her most visible acting roles have been in Hope Floats, Jerry Seinfeld’s Thanksgiving Special, Friday Night Lights, Walker, Texas Ranger, Rescue 911, Dallas, The Young & The Restless, and various television commercials.  More recently Tisa’s work as a director/writer/producer has been recognized with numerous TELLY and ADDY awards.  She is a proud member of the Texas co-producing teams for Broadway’s Queen of Versailles and Waiting for Godot, and Evita, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest in London’s West End.  Tisa’s passion for volunteering includes serving as Board President for Young Audiences of Northeast Texas and the Children’s Advocacy Center of Smith County, Vice-President of the Hibbs Family Foundation, and Co-Chair for Bethesda Clinic’s Runway for Hope.  She has worked for years on the boards of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Tyler Civic Theatre, East Texas Youth Orchestra, and the East Texas Crisis Center, and as a Keynote member of the ETSO Women’s Symphony League, Dallas Symphony Orchestra League, and as a charter member of The Women’s Fund of Smith County.  Tisa holds lifetime memberships in The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary and Girl Scouts, and served on The Dallas Opera Guild, Texas Shakespeare Festival Guild, and the Tyler Junior College Center for the Performing Arts Steering Committee and TJC’s Academy of Dance Endowment Committee.  She received the Distinguished Citizen Good Turn Award from the Boy Scouts of America, the Boys & Girls Clubs’ Champions of Youth Award, and was named an Honorary Board Member by Junior Achievement. Tisa has been married to Billy Hibbs, Chairman of Heartland Security Insurance Group, for almost 40 years, and they have two grown children, Stratton (Columbia University JD/MBA student & former University of Oxford Choral Scholar) and London (2024 UCLA vocal performance graduate & former music professor UCLA cheerleader).