bio: Bixby is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Playwriting Program under the guidance of Eduardo Machado. Productions: BLUEPRINT (dir. Jonathan Silverstein, NY: S.P.F. Summer Play Festival, Kirk Theatre), PN1923.45 LS01 Volume 2 [The Book Play] (dir. Stephen Brackett, NY: NY International Fringe Festival 2007), HOTEL ORACLE (dir. Stephen Brackett, NY: WalkerSpace), DREAMING OF CHEKHOV (dir. Pesha Rudnick, Ithaca: The Hangar Theatre), STREETS OF LAREDO (NY: Culture Project) I AM NOT PETER PAN (dir. Cary McLelland, NY: Cherry Lane Alternative & Scotland: Edinburgh Fringe Festival – “Best of Fest” Award), TRUCK STOP LOVE (Chicago: Bailiwick Theatre Company), and LUCKY (Chicago: Brown Couch Theatre).
Recognitions: Finalist for the 2010 O'Neil Playwrights Conference, Finalist for the 2010 Seven Devils Conference, Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, Semi-Finalist for New Dramatists 2010, Finalist for the Juilliard Fellowship, recipient of the Howard Stein Fellowship and a Dean’s Fellow at Columbia and a finalist for the BMI Lyricist Workshop.
Bixby has studied writing with Kelly Stuart, Frank Pugliese, Anne Bogart, Teresa Rebeck, Christopher Shinn, Peter Parnell, John Augustine and James Lescene. Bixby is working on an original pilot for television, further developing his play ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A FAGGOT and finalizing work on his new play inspired by the pop/rock group Milli Vanilli entitled GIRL YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE