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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Playwright Rand Higbee grew up in Spearfish, South Dakota and graduated from South Dakota State University. He also earned an MFA in playwriting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Higbee will be at Valley City State University this week to visit with students and to watch them perform his and other One-Acts in Theatre 320 Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Higbee gave newsdakota.com a bit of his background during a phone interview.

While Higbee was at UNLV his first full length play, “Sir Isaac’s Duel,” was named an alternate to the National American College Theatre Festival held at the Kennedy Center.

Rand likes to say, his plays have been performed from Cyrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Hollywood Playhouse in Hollywood, Florida.

Rand’s two best known plays are probably “Next,” which has become one of the most frequently produced high school one-acts in the country, and “The Head That Wouldn’t Die,” his popular science fiction spoof.

In 2012 Rand’s full length “A Girl Named Destiny” debuted at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland. The production was a critical success being named by DC Metro Theatre Arts as one of the best plays of 2012.