Bixby Elliot is a writer (plays, film, tv) living in New York City. His most recent play Aquamarine was part of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival. Selected for the festival out of 850 plays, Aquamarine was one of 10 finalists for the festival. Bixby’s previous play Abraham Lincoln was a Faggot was produced at Chicago’s About Face Theater and was selected as one of TimeOut Chicago’s Top 10 Plays of 2015, it was nominated for Jeff Awards and received critical acclaim (critics pick by TimeOut and Windy City Times and 3 1⁄2 stars from the Chicago Tribune). Abraham Lincoln was a Faggot was also a finalist for the O’Neill Theater Conference in 2010, as well as a finalist for New Dramatists, Seven Devils Development Conference, winner of the Pandora New Play Competition, a semi-finalist for and New Harmony Workshop. The New Yorker Magazine remarked that Bixby’s latest NYC production of his play Sommerfugl, directed by Stephen Brackett and starring Wayne Wilcox, “conjure(d) 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 as part of her new works Summer Play Festival (SPF). This production was directed by Drama Desk Nominee Jonathan Silverstein and starred Emmy winner Peter Strauss. Bixby’s next play. His play 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 in 2011, finalist for New Harmony, semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, finalist for Kitchen Dog Theater New Works and an advanced round entry for PlayPenn 2011. Girl You Know It’s True received its world premiere production in Spring 2012 at Chicago’s The Pavement Group and was produced in Seattle in March 2014. Other plays include Birds Do It (semi-finalist for Princess Grace Award), Treasure Island, FL (2012 O’Neill Conference semi-finalist, Seven Devils semi- finalist, SouthernRep New Play Festival Winner, New Orleans), PN1923.45 LS01 volume 2: The Book Play (New York Premiere: NYC International Fringe Festival), Hotel Oracle (New York premiere: Walkerspace/SoHo Rep) and I Am Not Peter Pan (New York premiere: Cherry Lane Theater; Edinburgh Fringe Festival – Best of Fest Winner). Bixby is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University and a proud company member of InViolet Theater Company. Bixby’s writing also includes television projects – in 2012 he was in development with Jennifer Lopez Entertainment for a new hour long comedy/drama and this year he is working with a producer on a new hour long historical drama. Bixby has also written two screenplays Highway and Happy, Now (finalist for the Sundance Writers Lab). He is the proud co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator (a new play generation project) and co- organizer of Second Monday Social (a monthly event for new play development).
Biography
Bixby Elliot is a writer (plays, film, tv) living in New York City. His most recent play Aquamarine was part of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival. Selected for the festival out of 850 plays, Aquamarine was one of 10 finalists for the festival. Bixby’s previous play Abraham Lincoln was a Faggot was produced at Chicago’s About Face Theater and was selected as one of TimeOut Chicago’s Top 10 Plays of 2015, it was nominated for Jeff Awards and received critical acclaim (critics pick by TimeOut and Windy City Times and 3 1⁄2 stars from the Chicago Tribune). Abraham Lincoln was a Faggot was also a finalist for the O’Neill Theater Conference in 2010, as well as a finalist for New Dramatists, Seven Devils Development Conference, winner of the Pandora New Play Competition, a semi-finalist for and New Harmony Workshop. The New Yorker Magazine remarked that Bixby’s latest NYC production of his play Sommerfugl, directed by Stephen Brackett and starring Wayne Wilcox, “conjure(d) 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 as part of her new works Summer Play Festival (SPF). This production was directed by Drama Desk Nominee Jonathan Silverstein and starred Emmy winner Peter Strauss. Bixby’s next play. His play 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 in 2011, finalist for New Harmony, semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, finalist for Kitchen Dog Theater New Works and an advanced round entry for PlayPenn 2011. Girl You Know It’s True received its world premiere production in Spring 2012 at Chicago’s The Pavement Group and was produced in Seattle in March 2014. Other plays include Birds Do It (semi-finalist for Princess Grace Award), Treasure Island, FL (2012 O’Neill Conference semi-finalist, Seven Devils semi- finalist, SouthernRep New Play Festival Winner, New Orleans), PN1923.45 LS01 volume 2: The Book Play (New York Premiere: NYC International Fringe Festival), Hotel Oracle (New York premiere: Walkerspace/SoHo Rep) and I Am Not Peter Pan (New York premiere: Cherry Lane Theater; Edinburgh Fringe Festival – Best of Fest Winner). Bixby is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University and a proud company member of InViolet Theater Company. Bixby’s writing also includes television projects – in 2012 he was in development with Jennifer Lopez Entertainment for a new hour long comedy/drama and this year he is working with a producer on a new hour long historical drama. Bixby has also written two screenplays Highway and Happy, Now (finalist for the Sundance Writers Lab). He is the proud co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator (a new play generation project) and co- organizer of Second Monday Social (a monthly event for new play development).