Sha Sha Higby

Discipline: Playwriting, Visual Arts

Based In: Bolinas, CA

Year at Millay: 1985

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, Theater Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (1991); Fulbright Scholar to India, Theater Arts, Fulbright US Scholar Program (1989–1990); Grant Recipient, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Lake Oswego, OR (1986); Artist-in-Residence, The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA (1985); Fulbright Grantee to Indonesia, Fulbright-Hays Program (1978–1982).

Website: http://www.shashahigby.com/New_Site_SourceFiles/index.html

Sha Sha Higby started out making dolls and pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years. She had a great opportunity for one year in Japan in 1971, observing the art of No Mask and theater and then received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to study dance and shadow puppet making and performance arts in villages in Indonesia for five years at the Academy of Music, Central Java, Indonesia. In addition to traveling throughout Southeast Asia to Thailand and Myanmar, she received an Indo-American Fellowship to study the textile arts of India, and a Pilot Travel Grants Fund from Arts International to study in Bhutan, the National Endowment for the Arts in Solo Theater Fellowship, US Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, Theater Bay Area CASH, the California Arts Council, among others. She has also recently studied lacquer (urushi) arts in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, through the auspices of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.