Thomas Higgins

Thomas Higgins is the author of many short plays, including The Blasphemy Tree (Naked Angels Lab), The Family Dungeon (Columbia Arts Initiative), The Home Front (Columbia University Arts Initiative), and The Wild Life (Source Theatre in DC this summer). His first full-length play, This Modern House, was nominated for the 2007 Cherry Lane Mentor Project and the 2007 L. Arnold Weissberger Award at Williamstown. His second full-length play, The Elephant Party, was nominated for the 2008 Cherry Lane Mentor Project. His third, The Home Maker, was just read at The Atlantic Theatre Company (Studio A) as part of the NUEA NU Works Reading Series. His short play The Dying Breed was a winner of the 33rd Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. He graduated cum laude from Northwestern University, where he was named a Walton Theatre Scholar and received the T. Stephen May Scriptwriting Award twice. He recently received his MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University on the Dean's Fellowship.