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 FIVE STAR WEEKEND which will star Jennifer Garner and is created by Bekah Brunstetter. Bixby is also a member of the 2024/2025 Class of NBC/Universal’s TV Writing Program.
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.
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. He will shot his first feature length film, AIN’T IT THOUGH in May of 2022 (currently in post-production). 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; 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 (Next Door, 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 founder of TH/TW Project. Bixby is developing new works for theater, film and television.
