Bixby Elliot is a queer writer (for tv, film and theater) from New York City and currently a staff writer on the new Peacock tv show THE FIVE STAR WEEKEND which stars Jennifer Garner and is created by Bekah Brunstetter.
An award-winning playwright, Bixby’s plays have been produced in New York, London, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Edinburgh and more. His play I LOVE YOU ST. PETERSBURG! won the Samuel French OOB Festival and was published in 2020. He is the winner of the 2019 Carlos Anoni Italian Award for Best Comedic Play in English and was a finalist for the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Conference. TimeOut Chicago selected Bixby’s play ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A FAGGOT as one of the “Top 10 Plays ” and it was Jeff Award Nominated. His most recent play EYE OPENERS (the first in a trilogy of plays called THE UNDERWORLD PLAYS) recently had a reading directed by Tony Speciale and was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference.
The New Yorker Magazine wrote that Bixby’s play SOMMERFUGL, directed by Stephen Brackett (Tony Nominated director of STRANGE LOOP and Broadway’s BE MORE CHILL) and starring Wayne Wilcox (GILMORE GIRLS), “conjured the spirit of Christopher Isherwood, both in its vivid evocation of Europe between the wars and in its characters’ bittersweet yearning for the fullness of life.” His play BLUEPRINT was produced by Tony Award winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover and starred Emmy winner Peter Strauss. GIRL YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE (inspired by the rise and fall of the pop/rock duo Milli Vanilli) was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference, semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and was produced in Chicago and Seattle.
Bixby’s short film AQUAMARINE has been in over 20 festivals and won multiple awards including; Best Short, Best, Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress and more. Bixby’s screenplay HAPPY, NOW was a finalist for the Sundance Writers Lab and a finalist a Mammoth Lakes Film Festival. His lastest film project THE YELLOW SPONGE IS THE DISH SPONGE is currently on the festival circuit and has already garnered Best Short, Best Actor awards and won the Grand Prize at Oscar Qualifying Rhode Island Film Festival (click HERE for more).
Bixby has developed projects for television; NEXT DOOR (with Melanie Maras) with Entertainment Studios attached as producer, HIGH FASHION previously in development with Jennifer Lopez Entertainment and THE GRID previously in developmental talks at PBS. He is currently working on several original pilots; Weeki Wachee, Dreams Come True, After These Messages, Love Mary Todd, Guncles (with Daniel Marshall), Tilting (with Bernardo Cubria), Audacity (with Erin Mallon) and several projects with Melanie Maras (Cancelled and The Breakup Tour).
Bixby is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University and co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator (a new play generation project) and he runs Upstate+Theater (along with Danielle Frimer and Paul Davis) a project aimed at making the Hudson Valley of New York a hub for new play development.
