Bixby Elliot
Education:
Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. MFA in Playwriting.
Studied under Kelly Stuart, Eduardo Machado, Frank Pugliese, Theresa Rebeck, Tammy Ader, Anne Bogart, Evangeline Morphos, and Brian Kulick
Other classes with: Daniel Talbott, Francine Volpe, Leslye Headland, Keith Bunin, Christopher Shinn, James Lescene, Josh Hecht, Lucy Thurber and more
Television:
Next Door (with Melanie Maras) Half hour comedy. In Development with Entertainment Studios
High Fashion One hour comedy/drama Developed with Jennifer Lopez Entertainment/Nyuorican Productions
Weeki Wachee
One hour comedy/drama
Love, Mary Todd Half hour comedy/drama
After These Messages Half hour comedy/drama
Dreams Come True (with Becky Yamamoto)
Half hour comedy/drama
Guncles ( with Daniel Marshall) Half hour comedy/drama
Audacity! (with Erin Mallon) Half hour comedy/drama
Tilting (with Bernardo Cubria) Half hour comedy
Film Projects:
Aquamarine (directed by Jack Dentinger) Short film. More info HERE
Natsukashi (directed by Jack Dentinger) . More info HERE
The Yellow Sponge is the Dish Sponge (directed by Michele Noble) More info HERE
Narrative Fiction Podcast Projects:
Next Door (with Melanie Maras)
Screenplays:
Happy, Now
Finalist – 2013 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Finalist, Finalist for the Mammoth Lakes 2022 Film Festival
Salt Kiss inspired by the true story of Margaret Howe
The Breakup Tour (with Melanie Maras, director Roxy Shih attached)
Aquamarine Filmed - Spring 2020. Produced by Bellweather
if on a winter’s night… Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novella If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Long Plays (selected):
We are Not Unspectacular Things Reading: Summer 2019 - New York - dir. Jack Dentinger. Reading: Spring 2023 Syracuse University dir. Jonathan Silverstein
Salt Kiss
Reading: Summer 2018 - New York - dir. Jack Dentinger
If on a Winter’s Night…
Reading: Blank Theater - Spring 2020 - Los Angeles Production: The Tank/ TH/TW Project - Winter 2017- New York - dir. Julie Kramer
Reading: The Brooklyn Generator - Summer 2017 - New York - dir. Julie Kramer Semi-Finalist: O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2019
Look Look Look Look Look
Reading: Winter 2017 - New York - dir. Clare Mottola
Reading: Mason Holdings - Winter 2017 - New York
The Whole Sky All Diamonds
Reading: Winter 2016 - New York - dir. NJ Agwuna Reading: Summer 2017 - New Jersey - dir. Stephen Brackett
Make a Wish and Blow…
Reading: Summer – Fall 2016 – New York – dir. David Perez
Sommerfugl
Production: InViolet – Fall 2015 – New York – dir. Stephen Bracket
Birds Do It
Semi-Finalist: 2013 Princess Grace
Reading: InViolet – Summer 2013 – New York – dir. Michael Henry Harris
Reading: InViolet – Winter 2014 – New York – dir. Lou Moreno
Girl You Know It’s True
Production: Theater Off Jackson – Spring 2014 – Seattle – dir. Ed Hawkins
Production: Pavement Group Spring 2012 – Chicago – dir. David Perez
Reading: Flight Theater Company dir. Jonathan Silverstein
Semi-Finalist: O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2011
Finalist: New Harmony Project 2011
Finalist: Kitchen Dog New Works 2011
Advanced Round PlayPenn 2011
Abraham Lincoln Was A Faggot
Production: About Fact Theater – June 2015 – Chicago dir. Andrew Volkoff (TimeOut Chicago Top 10 Plays of 2015 - Jeff Nominated)
Workshop: About Face Theater – Spring 2014 – Chicago dir. Andrew Volkoff
Production: Pandora Theater Spring 2013 – Louisville, KY
Reading: Epiphany Theatre Company dir. Stephen Brackett
Finalist: O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2010
Finalist: Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2010
Finalist: New Dramatists 2010
Semi-Finalist: New Harmony Project 2010
Finalist: Pandora Theatre New Play Competition
Advanced Round PlayPenn 2010
Blueprint
Production: Arielle Tepper Maddover’s S.P.F. (Summer Play Festival) July 2007 – New York – dir. Jonathan Silverstein
Reading: Epiphany Theatre Company
Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Award
Finalist: Lark Theatre Company Summer Reading Series
PN1923.45 LS01 Volume 2 [The Book Play]
Production: New York International Fringe 2007 – The Bleecker Street Theatre – August 2007 - New York – dir. Stephen Brackett
Backstage: “Director Stephen Brackett's staging, with this impeccable cast, is elegant…Elliot's frequently hilarious and touching play.”
NYTheatre.com: “Top- notch”, “Stellar”, “The most professional FringeNYC show I've seen, both in the quality of the technical design and the performances”, “Well-told. Elliot writes very convincing, honest dialogue and does an excellent job of distinguishing the time periods through language.”
Hotel Oracle
Production: Sum of Us Theatre Co. – Walkerspace – March 2007 - New York – dir. Stephen Brackett
Workshop: Lark Theatre
NYTheatre.com: “six of the most talented actors working in off-off-Broadway theatre tackle a beautifully designed drama written by a talented playwright with flawless direction on a really cool set”
Jon Sobel, BlogCritics Magazine: “the work of a playwright with a quiver full of penetrating arrows”
I Am Not Peter Pan
Production: The Lift Group - Cherry Lane Theatre Alternative 2004 – New York - dir. Cary McClelland
Production: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2004 – Edinburgh, Scotland – dir. Cary McClelland
Best of Fest Award/5 Star Review
Treasure Island, FL
Production: Columbia Stages Festival 2005 – New York – dir. Jonathan Silverstein
Reading: SouthernRep New Play Festival – New Orleans, LA – dir. Ryan Jillette
Reading: InViolet – New York – dir. Stephen Brackett
Musical:
Reality! A Family Musical (music & lyrics by Lawrence Goldberg)
Workshop: Stamford Center for the Arts 2006 – Stamford, CT – dir. Spencer Chandler
Reading: The Actor’s Center
Short Plays (selected):
I Love You St. Petersburg! Production: Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival – Summer 2019 – New York – dir. Jack Dentinger Finalist and Winner. Published by Samuel French Inc. Spring 2020
Aquamarine
Production: Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival – Summer 2018 – New York – dir. Jack Dentinger. Finalist
Ginny & Dick + Others
Production: 2nd and 3rd Annual NYC One Minute Play Festival (HERE Arts Center)
Dreaming of Chekhov
Production: Hangar Theatre – Ithaca, NY – dir. Pesha Rudnick
Truck Stop Love
Production: Bailiwick Theatre – Chicago, IL – dir. Heather Brown
Production: 3Across – The Belt@The Zipper – New York, NY – dir. Erik Sneidze
Lucky
Production: Brown Couch Theatre – Chicago, IL – dir. Heather Brown
Streets of Laredo
Production: 45 Below @ The Culture Project – dir. Megan Sandberg-Zakian
The Sound of a Dog Barking
Presentation: Cherry Picking Festival – dir. Clare Mottola CTP
I Love You St. Petersburg
Presentation: Cherry Picking Festival – dir. Clare Mottola CTP
Other:
Scandal (an adaptation of Sheridan’s School for Scandal for Young Adults)
Production: Strasberg Institute 2005 – New York
Awards:
Winner - Carlos Anoni Italian Award for Best Comedic Play in English 2019 Finalist – O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2010 Semi-Finalist – O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2011/2012/2019
Finalist – New Harmony Project 2011
Semi-Finalist – New Harmony Project 2010
Finalist – New Dramatists Membership 2010
Finalist – Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2010
Semi-Finalist – Princess Grace Award 2010/2013
Finalist – BMI Lyricist Workshop
Winner - Festival of Firsts Playwriting Competition
Winner – College New Play Competition – Bailiwick Theatre Company
Winner (one of eight) Southern Rep – New Southern Play Festival
Winner – Hangar Theatre New Play Contest
Finalist – Lark Theatre Company – New Play Festival
Finalist – Juilliard: The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program
Additional Information:
Former Company Member – InViolet Theater Company
Member of the Lift Group
Member of The Group (a collective of emerging writers)
Member of the Dramatists Guild
Co-Curator of The Brooklyn Generator with Erin Mallon Founder of TH/TW Project with Erin Mallon