He is best known for creating the role of nefarious businessman Kirk Anderson on the long-running soap opera As the World Turns.

He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, where he continued to act while playing three varsity sports.

He landed the role of Danny Zuko in a national tour of Grease and eventually joined the Broadway cast.

He left Grease to star in an Off Broadway production of the British play 'Class Enemy' during which he was cast as Mike, the ex-quarterback cutter, in the TV series Breaking Away.

In the mid eighties, Wiggin joined the cast of the Off Broadway smash The Foreigner (Owen) and played Agent Foster in the TV movie Izzy and Moe, starring Jackie Gleason and Art Carney.

Elsewhere,[1] in addition to starring in the west coast premiere of the Australian play 'Down an Alley Filled with Cats' at the Pasadena Playhouse.

In 2016, he appeared at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., in "City of Conversation" and "All the Way" and he guest starred on "Madam Secretary" in 2017.