Stories about what happens when worlds collapse – socially, politically, environmentally, psychologically.
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: Body Snatchers; the pregnancy horror of Prevenge; and the philosophical head-trip of Altered States.
LOGLINE: A grief stricken physics professor participates in a controversial DMT (N-dimethyltryptamine) study in the hopes of communicating with her recently deceased daughter and husband. But she gets more than she bargains for when her beliefs around consciousness, reality, time and…mushrooms are upended.
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.
