CJ Higgins

Theatre Artist

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CJ Higgins is a Philadelphia-local theatre artist specializing in devising, new work, music, directing, and production. They have performed with companies including Theatre Horizon, The Hum'n'bards Theater Troupe, Delaware Shakespeare, Jaffe St. Queer Productions, Tiny Dynamite, Revolution Shakespeare, Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, and more. He is the Director of Production & Communications for The Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe, through which he has also performed and directed multiple devised productions.

CJ graduated magna cum laude from Rowan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts, concentration in Musical Theatre, and was a member and president of the Rho Nu chapter of Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society. They are currently the Director of Programming and Operations for Theatre Philadelphia, and a member of Ring of Keys.

When not working in theatre, CJ writes original music and tries to get some sunshine every once in a while. They also have a notable presence on TikTok with over one hundred thousand followers and a past collaboration with the It Gets Better Project.

CJ is non-binary (androgyne, specifically) and uses they/he pronouns.

Home page background photograph by Wide Eyed Studios
Page background by Janet Gleason, featuring Jess McCormick, Willow McGlone, Travis R. Fischbach, and CJ Higgins in Ghost Quartet, October 2019