Actor
Directed by Ralph Lewis
A feminist spin on Sophocles’ tragedy, this contemporary makeover reimagines the classical Greek myth with a metaphysical twist: a chorus of great thinkers from across time conjures a new version of Sophocles’ play, putting Jocasta on the throne to square off with Antigone. Their meddling erupts in a mother-daughter throwdown that interrogates patriarchal storytelling through a feminist lens. And there is no battle more fiercely fought than that between a daughter and her mother. As conflicts escalate in the chorus, mayhem ensues with a surprising resolution in this new play written for mothers, daughters, and everyone who’s ever had one.
A Peculiar Works Project
Tickets
Mar 20 - Apr 5, 2026
The Downstairs
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
66 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
Voice Acting:
Fall 2025 - completed campaign for Betterment Investing
The Accidental Wolf
Mick Hilgers plays Mike, the driver for Katie (Kelli O’Hara) in this Emmy Nominated series from Waterwell, written and directed by Arian Moayed, starring a firmament of brilliant actors, including O’Hara, Laurie Metcalf, Judith Ivey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and many more. Season 2 premiered Dec. 30, 2021 on Topic.
NY Times Watching Newsletter: This weekend I have … 30 minutes, and I miss ‘Homeland.’
Kelli O’Hara stars as Katie, a wealthy woman who feels trapped in her life and marriage when a wrong-number — or was it? — phone call from what sounds like a war zone disrupts everything… Start at the beginning.
-Margaret Lyons, The New York Times
The Courtroom
TRIBECA FESTIVAL 2022
NY Times Pick: Best Theater of 2019
In Waterwell’s “The Courtroom,” the accused is an immigrant in danger of deportation, her unassuming American life at risk of being torn apart over a mistake she insists was innocent. The sneaky thing about this riveting re-enactment, though, is that in watching it, we citizens are on trial, too. What kind of a nation are we? How cruel have we permitted ourselves to be?
That work, recently returned for monthly site-specific performances around New York, is part of 2019’s thrillingly vital bumper crop of political theater — shows that implicate the audience with bracing artistry.
- Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
The Modern Living series,
La MaMa ETC, New York
The antidote to the surfeit of soulless synthetic musical comedies on Broadway...
Mick Hilgers, who has been part of the "Modern Living" plays since the beginning... a soothing presence... is palpably human...
...one of the most fulfilling (experiences) I've had in a theatre all year.
- Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com
Playwright
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2025 Finalist Award
Playwriting/Screenwriting
This cash Finalist Award is granted solely by anonymous, independent peer panel assessment to advance the development of new work.
Debunked
Selected for the 2024 Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre’s 8 Tens @ 8 Festival (the longest running short-play festival in the world!) Debunked ran from Jan 24-Feb 18, 2024
Ward Willats and Zoe Willats in Debunked, directed by Davis Banta
Photo by Davis Banta
Midnight Baseball
Mick’s offering to the 7th Inning Stretch festival of short plays centering on baseball at Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, New Jersey (where the first official baseball game was played — take that, Cooperstown!) premiered on June 17, 2022.
