Michael Higgins is a Chicago-based writer and playwright whose comedies have been performed around the country.
His play Launch Day (Love Stories from the Year 2108) was a winner of the American Association of Community Theatre's NewPlayFest 2022. Launch Day premiered at Theatre Tuscaloosa in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and has been read at Benchmark Theatre in Denver, Capital Stage in Sacramento and Chicago Dramatists in Chicago.
Launch Day is now available from Dramatic Publishing Co.
Michael's play The Chip has been produced in New York, Chicago and Australia and appears in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2018 (Smith & Kraus). His play Tracy and Her Dream Guys was published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019 (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books).
Michael is a former legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune and has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. A Cleveland-area native, he also has worked as a garbage collector and assistant to the guy who scrapes roadkill off the highway. Michael lives with his wife, Lisa, in Oak Park, Illinois.
NPX profile is available here.