Bruce Hickey

Bruce Hickey is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and film director, and member of The Director's Unit at The Actor's Studio. His career started as an actor, playing Danny Zuko in the original cast of Grease in Chicago. He shifted his focus to directing and wrote and directed his play, All I Want, based on his casework experiences. The play ran for two years at The Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, winning Jeff Awards for Best Play and Best Director. Moving to LA, he directed theater, a feature film, and wrote network TV movies. He has been active in creating new content. He wrote and directed Blind Faith, winner of 25 Best Short Film Festivals in 2022. His film trailer, Blindsided By Love, won seven film festivals in 2018, and his feature script, Prince of Chicago, won two festivals in 2022 for Best Unproduced Script. His play Last Call received glowing reviews in a production at The Hudson Guild Theater in NYC in 2017. Times Square Chronicle, "Fine writing, a premise that I've never seen and an ending I didn't see coming." Bill Saunders of the Chicago Sun-Times described his work as "Tennessee Williams seen through the eyes of Martin Scorsese."