Director

John has directed the following plays in the United States, England, Australia and South Africa. UNITED STATES 1998 JEWISH SPORTS HEROES AND TEXAS INTELLECTUALS  By William Mlissouri Downs EUREKA THEATRE COMPANY,  SAN FRANCISCO 1998 MAKING PORN By Ronnie Larsen THEATRE BUILDING, CHICAGO 1996 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY By Philip Barry SPRECKELS ARTS CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO 1996 LA RONDE II (San Francisco Premiere) By Eric Bentley ALCAZAR THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO 1996 LAKE NO BOTTOM (West Coast Premiere) By Michael Weller SPRECKELS ARTS CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO 1994 I HATE HAMLET (West Coast Premiere) By Paul Rudnick NEXT STAGE,  SAN FRANCISCO 1992 BROADWAY BOUND By Neil Simon GARBEAU’S DINNER THEATRE, SACRAMENTO 1992 DIAL M FOR MURDER By Frederick Knott GARBEAU’S DINNER THEATRE, SACRAMENTO 1990 PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD By Israel Horovitz THE JEWEL THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO 1990 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM By William Shakespeare BURGESS PARK THEATRE, MENLO PARK 1980 THE BIKO INQUEST (US Premiere) By Jon Blair & Norman Fenton OLD GLOBE THEATRE, SAN DIEGO 1980 THE FURTHUR INQUIRY (World Premiere) By Ken Kesey & John Higgins OLD GLOBE THEATRE, SAN DIEGO John worked and lived for 3 months at Ken Kesey’s farm in Oregon in 1979. John conceived the idea for a play (The Furthur Inquiry) from an original screenplay by Ken Kesey. In collaboration with Ken, John assembled 30 minutes of film footage for his play from the film that Ken and the Merry Pranksters had made on their 1964 Bus Trip to New York City. The bus trip was the subject of Tom Wolfe’s book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.   ENGLAND 1989 THE SHREW  By Charles Marowitz THE PARK THEATRE, LONDON 1989 GOD By Woody Allen THE ACTORS CENTRE, LONDON AUSTRALIA 2008 BARACK AMERICA By John Higgins PARADE STUDIO NIDA, SYDNEY 1987 TWO WITHOUT A CAUSE (With Miles Buchanan, Nicholas Eadie and John Polson) By Michael Weller and Israel Horowitz BONDI PAVILION THEATRE, SYDNEY SOUTH AFRICA 1977 SURVIVAL (World Premiere) By the Actors MARKET THEATRE, JOHANNESBURG   A group-devised anti-apartheid play which toured South Africa. It also toured California and the Pacific NorthWest for nine months. It played 3 months at the Astor Place Theatre in New York, toured Russia and the U.K. and played the Royal Court Theatre in London. 1976 WORDS AND MUSIC BY BOB DYLAN (World Premiere) By John Higgins MARKET THEATRE, JOHANNESBURG   A musical stage show which ran for three months at the Market Theatre, and then toured South Africa for another six months. 1975 OF MICE AND MEN By John Steinbeck LAKESIDE THEATRE, JOHANNESBURG   The first government approved multi-ethnic production in South African History (1976). The cast consisted of English, Africaans, Zulu & ‘Coloured’ actors. 1974 AND NOW THERE’S JUST THE THREE OF US By Michael Weller MARKET THEATRE, JOHANNESBURG John directed the following Television Series in the United States. TELEVISION 1979 $WEEPSTAKE$ MILLER/MILKIS, PARAMOUNT NBC A weekly one-hour television series. John Higgins wrote and directed a different 5 minute Kinestasis segment for each show. There were 13 shows. Click here for Sweepstakes slideshow >>Back to the top<<