Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Craig Higginson ki Harare, Zimbabwe, i te tau 1971 (i mua ko Salisbury, Rhodesia). Nā te piki haere o te āhuatanga i te wā o te Pakanga Bush o Rōhēhia, ka neke ia me tōna whaea me tōna tuahine ki Johannesburg i te tau 1976, te tau o te
Ko ngā whakaekenga o Soweto. I te tekau o ona tau, i haere ia ki te kura whakauru i KwaZulu-Natal i Clifton Nottingham Road me Michaelhouse. I muri mai ka kaha te whakaatu o te whenua o Midlands i roto i ana pukapuka me nga whakaari. I te tau 1990, i nga wiki i tukuna ai a Nelson Mandela mai i te whare herehere me te whakakorenga o te African National Congress, ka haere a Higginson ki te Whare Wananga o te Witwatersrand ki te ako i nga Toi Ataahua, engari i muri mai ka neke ki te BA (Honors) i te reo Ingarihi me nga tuhinga Pakeha. I te tau 1995, i mahi ia hei kaiawhina mo te kaiwhakahaere a Barney Simon i te Whare Taonga o te Maakete. Whai muri i te matenga o Haimona, ka neke ia ki Ingarangi, ka noho ia mo nga tau tekau. I reira i mahi ia i te Young Vic Theatre me Tim Supple me te Royal Shakespeare Company me Michael Attenborough. I mahi hoki ia hei kaiwhakawai whakaari mo etahi tau i te maheni "Time Out". I whakaputaina e ia tana pukapuka tuatahi, "Embodied Laughter", i te rua tekau ma ono o ona tau i Awherika ki te Tonga me Ingarangi me te whakarereke i te "Laughter in the Dark" mo te Royal Shakespeare Company me BBC Radio 3 i muri tata mai. I hoki ia ki te noho me te mahi i Awherika ki te Tonga i te tau 2004. Mai i taua wa kua whakaako a Higginson i te Whare Wananga o te Witwatersrand, a ko ia te Kaiwhakahaere Pukapuka o te Whare Taonga o te Maakete. Kua whakaputaina e ia etahi pukapuka me nga taakaro, a he nui tana mahi i te pouaka whakaata o Awherika ki te Tonga hei kaituhi. He tohu Ph.D. ia i roto i te Tuhituhi Waihanga, a, kua marenatia ia ki te kaiwhakaari a Leila Henriques. E noho ana rātau ki Johannesburg.