CJ Higgins

Theatre Artist

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Hair Color: Brown      Height: 5’2”       Vocal Range: Tenor/Contralto      Pronouns: they/he Non-Union


PERFORMANCE

Julius Caesar + Casca/Strato Tai Verley / Delaware Shakespeare

Macbeth + Witch 3/Sergeant AZ Espinoza / Delaware Shakespeare

[title of show] Susan Rosanne DellAversano / Bootless Stageworks

Sing Out Louise!: Chicago Mary Sunshine Patti LuStoned / Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Puck/Philostrate JL Hitchens / Shakespeare at Stoneleigh

We Can’t Wait ^ B & E Damien Figueras / Tiny Dynamite

154 Revisited ^ Monologues Revolution Shakespeare

Lawrence’s Law of Pawn Shops ^ Lawrence Christina Peña / DigiREP Festival

The #Knightlife Renaissance Faire ^ @ Co-Host Quinton J. Alexander & CJ / Hum’n’bards

Cookie Crumbles ^            Urg Shamus McCarty / Going Viral Festival

4PM with CJ Higgins ^ Self CJ Higgins / Self-produced

The Lizard of Oz +            Jake Gyllenhaal    Eric Jaffe / Jaffe St. Queer Productions

Ghost Quartet            Pearl    JL Hitchens & CJ / Going Dark Theatre

Salome            The Musician            JL Hitchens / Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

The Importance of Being Earnest          Algernon             Ryan Walter / Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

The Baldest Eagle                                  Various Roles             Nate Biagiotti / Philly Improv Theater

Three Sisters                                           Irina                            JL Hitchens / Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

James and the Giant Peach                    Spiker                         Chad Parsons / Limelight PAC

The Grapes of Wrath                               First Narrator              JL Hitchens / Allens Lane Theater

Tribulation Periwinkle: Civil War Nurse    Tribulation                  JL Hitchens / Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Little Women &                                        Jo March                    JL Hitchens / Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

12 Angry Jurors                                        Juror #2                     Jeanette Carden / Sketch Club Players Inc.

Dorothy Meets Alice                               Alice                           Laura Lynn Trace / WDLT

The Rocky Horror Show                          Magenta                     Justin Walsh / Sketch Club Players Inc.

Beauty and the Beast                          Belle                           Bryan Lesnick / Bucks County Performing Arts

Evita                                                         Featured Ensemble    Marc G. Dalio / MoorArts

DEVISING

The Hazards of Love Asst. Director/Musician Travis R. Curhart-Higgins/ Hum’n’bards Theater

The Casket Show   Collaborator     Jenn Adams / Jersey Fringe Festival

We’ll Sleep When We’re Dead   Collaborator     Cori Maskart / Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe

God Forgive These Bastards Co-Director/Musician    Jess McCormick & CJ / Hum'n'bards Theater Troupe

And Prom's Tomorrow!                 Lead Collaborator        CJ Higgins / Jersey Fringe Festival

Things I Never Told My Mom       Collaborator                 Rebecca May Flowers / RMayFlowers Productions

Find Me (2.0)                                Lead Collaborator        CJ Higgins / Jersey Fringe Festival

Glister                                           Shylock                         Wyatt Flynn / Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe

Find Me                                         Lead Collaborator        CJ Higgins / Venice Island PAC

Pangaea: A Folk Opera                Collaborator                 Jasmine Kojouri / Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe

STAGED READINGS / CONCERTS

ChristJesus TravisStar Judas/Ensemble Self-Produced

The Erlking’s Daugher Ellie Ryan Walter / Allens Lane Art Center

Sapphic Scouts ^ Sammy Amanda Shaffern / Coffee and a Play

Zanna, Don’t (the Reboot)                  Featured Soloist               Molly Braverman / Theatre Horizon

New Voices, New Viewpoints             Jenny (You Got Older)       Rebecca May Flowers / Theatre Horizon

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson         Featured Soloist  Molly Braverman / Theatre Horizon

120 Days of Sodom                             The Banker                        JL Hitchens / BrainSpunk Theater

The Impossibility of Most Things         Annette                             Jumbo Schimpf / South Camden Theatre Co.

Jesus Christ Superstar                        Featured Soloist                Bryan Lesnick / Heritage Theatre Company


 

EDUCATION

INTERACT THEATRE  -  LITERARY INTERN

  • June 2019-August 2019

  • Training in literary management and dramaturgy

THEATRE HORIZON  -  APPRENTICE

  • September 2015-June 2016

  • Training in arts administration including education, production, and development

  • Promoted to Audience Services & Office Manager from 2016-2019

ROWAN UNIVERSITY - BA THEATRE ARTS: MUSICAL THEATRE

  • Select courses: Advanced Acting & Directing (Lane Savadove), Voice & Acting (Rebekah Maggor and Marian Stieber), Stage Makeup (Christopher “Jumbo” Schimpf), Stagecraft (Tom Fusco), Costuming (Stephanie Nichols)

  • Performance highlights: Report on Revolutionary Circumstances (Revolutionary; English language world premiere); Threepenny Opera (Lucy); Who Will Carry the Word? (Denise; nominated for an Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship); Into the Woods (Rapunzel)

  • Extracurriculars: Member (2012-2015) and President (2013-2015) of Alpha Psi Omega, Rho Nu Chapter; member of AWKWARD Improv, Rowan Original Works, and Campus Players


Special Skills

Valid N.J. driver’s license; Valid U.S. passport; Fast memorization of text, music, and movement; Play violin, guitar, ukulele, banjo, and some piano and accordion; Can read music;  Singing range E2-D#5; Relative pitch; Training in improvisational acting, Laban, Linklater, Chekhov, viewpoints, stage makeup, carpentry, jazz and tap dance, and contact improvisation; Proficiency in French and International Phonetic Alphabet; Can hula hoop for long duration of time, belly-roll, snap, touch feet to head, backbend into a bridge, cartwheel, handstand, and touch tongue to nose


 

*Denotes an upcoming production.

+ Barrymore Recommended production

^ Digital production during the COVID-19 pandemic

@ Nominated for the Philadelphia Digital Nightlife Awards, Best Recurring Digital Show

& Named one of DC Metro Arts’s Best Performances in Philadelphia for Spring/Summer 2016

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