Actor
Recent work
Tiny Beautiful Things
Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken
“Mick Hilgers… brings impeccable focus and presence.
Looking like a lost soul who has been put through life’s wringer… Hilgers embodies the (character’s) grief and hopelessness with a palpable sense of pain.
…a standout moment in a play full of them”
- Jim Testa, NJ Arts
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 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.
