I write speculative stories about social, political, ecological, and cosmic systems — and the moral, relational, and physical costs of living inside them.
Writing samples available upon request.
Masks All The Way Down
Memoir / Creative non-fiction
Status: Overview – Sample Chapters
What if the self isn’t something we discover, but something we continuously create?
OVERVIEW: Through a blend of memoir, storytelling, and creative research, Masks All the Way Down explores the phenomenon of “masking”: the ways we perform identities to survive, belong, and thrive. Drawing from her life as an autistic, high-masking performer and creative multi-hyphenate, Litza Bixler offers a deeply personal yet universal inquiry: Can the self be both performed and authentic?
Intimate and philosophical, this book invites readers to consider how we all construct versions of ourselves – as children learning to perform gender, as workers navigating power and status, and as creative beings.
It is a book for anyone who has ever asked: Who am I beneath the mask?
In Tears on the Floor
Verbatim Play / Theatre
OVERVIEW: Using collected oral histories from women about their experiences of menopause and verbatim theatre techniques, ‘In Tears on the Floor’ is a play about falling apart and coming together. And about what happens when you find yourself suddenly, inexplicably, invisible.
Blood, Water, Dust
Folk Horror, Detective
Television Series / Novel
Status: Spec pilot, pitch doc, look-book, bible
Sheriff Blake wants to save her town. Dusty wants to break a curse. And Bola wants revenge.
LOGLINE: In a two stoplight town plagued by drought, the dried-up husks of men start to appear. When the local Sheriff investigates, she encounters a bi-racial Maya girl (15) who is haunted by a centuries old curse.
Top Ten Pilots Filmmarket Hub 2023, Top Ten Horror I.S.A. Table Read Austin, Finalist Writer’s Lab UK 2021
The Pareto Principle
Feature Film / Body Horror / Teen
Status: spec script, director attached
Music, magic and dance collide in a surreal and kaleidoscopic tale about power, passion & punishment.
LOGLINE: An unlikely friendship between a sexually fluid Brit and a wealthy debutante ends in horror – when a spell spirals out of control on prom night and turns a throng of dancing teens into a deadly danse-macabre. It’s Stephen King’s Carrie with a dance twist, inside a dark mirror version of a classic 80s teen movie.
The City of Clouds
Feature Film / Fantasy Adventure / Animation
Status: spec script
Comps: The adventure of His Dark Materials (Pullman); the tone of Spirited Away (Miyazaki); the rotoscoped look of Undone.
LOGLINE: After her father disappears during a routine cargo flight, ten-year-old MAY discovers that she can fly. And on her quest to find him, she uncovers a secret about her ancestry and learns that flying isn’t the only surprising thing she can do.
WON: ISA Fellowship, Stowe Story Labs 2020
Copelia’s Heart
Television Series / Sci-fi / Detective
Status: One Page
Comps: The Feed, Severence, and Bladerunner
It’s 2036 and everything has a price, including love.
LOGLINE: When a beleaguered London detective discovers the body of a high level cabinet minister in her sister’s bedroom with a controversial substance in his blood, she covers up the crime. But when her sister vanishes, she risks more than her career to uncover the truth about a drug that induces a ‘love’ state that is indistinguishable from the real thing, and the powerful political cartel that profits from it.
The Everything
Feature Film / Body Horror / Mind-bending
Status: Two Page, Story Outline
Comps: Rosemary’s Baby with the philosophical depth of Arrival.
LOGLINE: A pregnant physics professor discovers her late husband infected their unborn child with a psychogenic mushroom that could either save humanity or doom it. As fungal patterns spread through the fetus, she must choose: her child’s humanity or our species’ survival.
Safety In Numbers
Mini-Series / Mind-bending sci-fi / musical / animation
Comps: Pulp Fiction, Love Craft Country, Schmigadoon, Being John Malkevich, Blindspotting
A surreal, genre-bending love letter to Wisconsin with a local political twist.
LOGLINE: If our minds could create worlds, what would they look like? When ex-besties Eleanor and Krish are transported to a world they accidentally co-created, they must overcome their differences and work together to figure out the rules of the world and find a way home.
OVERVIEW: Using verbatim theatre techniques, real interviews and AI tools, this project is an experimental, research driven project funded by a Baldwin Grant from Arts for Everyone Wisconsin.
