Christopher Higgins

**Christopher "Chris" Higgins** is an actor, singer, and BTS extrodonair born on June 28th! He is very involved with the theatre and film scene in New York City. Chris has also helped Shipwrecked Comedy with BTS and being an extra since Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party.

## Life

Christopher (commonly called "Chris") Higgins was born on June 28th. He spent most of his early life in upper New York before moving out to LA for college. During his time in LA, he had to work multiple jobs. This left him feeling creatively frustrated and unfulfilled. So, he decied to try out photography and asked Mary Kate Wiles to be his model. The two had a very extravagant fantasy and sci-fi esque photoshoot. This brought Chris into the world of photography (and thus BTS).

However, he eventually felt an urge to return to New York. Around 2015, he moved to New York City; this is where he currently lives. Chris continued to pursue NYC theatre in many different ways. An important part was spent on him helping workshop various plays and musicals that mostly involved NYU students or graduates.

In 2017, Chris realised a change of interests; he was more drawn towards film. Since then, he still has ocasionally pursued theatre and continues to be apart of The Metropalitan Players (joined in 2015). Up to present day, he also contiues to be apart of Shipwrecked projects.

## Education

He recieved a B.A. in theatre from the University of Southern California (attended with Mary Kate Wiles). He gratuated magna cum laude.

## Shipwrecked Comedy

Chris became involved with Shipwrecked Comedy through his friendship with Mary Kate Wiles. He has helped with the majority of BTS pictures and videos for Shipwrecked's larger projects. Chris has also played several small roles such as J.M.Barrie in a prolouge to Poe Party, an officer in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party, Emcee in The Case of the Gilded Lily and The Case of the Greater Gatsby, and Tim in American Whoopee. In the "Switcheroo Readongs" he played the parts of Eddie, Constable Jim, and Cliff Calloway. Higgins has also attened Buffer Festival with the group before. He will also play the role of Trevor Trinkets, a small child who is apart of a theatre program, in Shipwrecked's webseries Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story.

## Other Projects

Chris has been apart of the cast and crew for many projects theatre and film related. His more prominet theatre credits extend back to college, while his film credits extend back to 2010.

During his time with the USC theatre, he participated in performances such as *Carousel, Brigadoon,* and *Into The Woods.* Some of his most notable roles after were Freddy Eynsford-Hill in *My Fair Lady,* Ernest in *Spring Awakening* (a role which he later reprised), Gilbert Blythe in *Bend in the Road*, Zack in *Bare*, and Combeferre in *Les Miserables.* Higgins also recived ensamble award nominations for both performances of *Spring Awakening* and *Les Miserables.* The majority of these credits listed on his resume end around sometime in 2013. However, he has participated in *The Metropolitan Players* wedding and touring band since 2015. It is simillar in nature to theatre in the sense of stange presence, singing talent, and live performnace it requires. The group is highly reviewed and have appeared in several articles.

Along with his *Youtube* work for Shipwrecked Comedy, Chris has also helped Mary Kate Wiles, Yulin Kuang, and the Tin Can Brothers.  Before he moved, he assisted Mary Kate with filming and photographing for many of her *Youtube* videos on her channel. He also was a PA on her short film "Spore." Yulin's production of "I Ship It" included Chris in multiple ways. He played a small ensamble role in the short film, sang on the song "Horcruxes", and did set photography. And, with Tin Can Brothers, he took still photographs for their webseries *Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye*.

However, this is not his only experince with film crew and acting. During the creation of "Flash" and "Through the Woods," he had the role of various crew jobs such as producer, composer, and production designer. On both of these short films, he was also apart of the cast. He is also listed as cast for films such as "iLiving," *Seeing Through*, and *Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean*. In addition, he has been a featured actor on well known TV shows like *Glee* as a Dalton Academy student (season 2 episodes 6&16 and season 3 episode 5) and *The Goldbergs* as JC's friend (season 2 episode 12)*.* Most recently and noteably, Chris is set to be a Co-Star on *The Gilded Age.* The show, set to premire on January 24th, 2022, is a nine episode period drama. It will follow characters navigating a changing social and economic class at the turn of the century.

## Other Tidbits

- He once went on a date with Mary Kate because of a "date auction" their college was hosting. The two went to a fancy resteraunt on campus that accepted the college's meal plans.
-He has a great appriciation for Cate Blanchett.

-He loves the movie *The Little Mermaid*.

-He knew Clark Baxtresser through *The Metropolitan Players* before he met him through mutual friends*.* When he first began to talk to him, Clark mentioned how he was currently working on music for a new show called *Spies Are Forever.*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Craftversations PT 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Christopher Higgins Resume
3. ↑ *The Metropolitan Players Website*
4. ↑ Christopher Higgins IMDB page