Michael
Higgins is a Chicago-based
writer whose play Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108) was a
winner of AACT’s NewPlayFest in 2022 and premiered at Theatre Tuscaloosa in
Tuscaloosa, Ala. Launch Day has received staged readings at Benchmark
Theatre in Denver, Capital Stage in Sacramento and Chicago Dramatists in
Chicago. Higgins’ 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 (Rowman & Littlefield). Higgins 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. He lives with his wife, Lisa, in Oak Park, Ill.
