ALEX HIGGIN-HOUSER

Alex Higgin-Houser is a dramatist, director, and theatre-maker. His latest musical, Beast Mode Champion, recently completed a developmental workshop at Elon University. Alex's one-act opera Shadow on the Wall will receive its digital premiere with Tisch's Advanced Opera Lab, produced in association with the American Opera Project and New Phase Collective. Haymarket, his most recent world premiere, received the 2019 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical following an extended commercial run in Chicago. Adventurers!, an immersive D&D musical, recently had its first workshop production at the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. His work has been published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide and performed across the country. Alex is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he completed his MFA in musical theatre writing... As an arts administrator, Alex co-founded Underscore Theatre, a new musical development company, in 2011, where he served as artistic director until 2018,..