Jessica Higgins has been a member of the theater ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim since the 2021/2022 season. Previously she had engagements at, among other institutions, Theater Bielefeld; Münchner Volkstheater; Landestheater Tübingen; and Theater Augsburg. In addition, she has also performed at Theater Bonn; Theater Heidelberg; Nationaltheater Mannheim; Thalia Theater in Hamburg; and Münchner Kammerspiele. She works closely with Christian Weise, the resident director at Nationaltheater Mannheim, and she celebrated her debut at Nationatheater Mannheim in its production of “Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe” (“Käthchen of Heilbronn or The Trial by Fire”) at the end of the 2020/2021 season.
Jessica Higgins was born in 1976 near Hamburg, and she finished her studies in acting at the Otto Falckenberg Schule in Munich.