Litza Bixler is a writer, choreographer, filmmaker, and artist who has produced work on stage, on screen, in galleries and on mountains. Litza has an extensive background in dance theatre and British / European contemporary dance. She has directed and produced numerous dance films and physical theatre pieces, and written several screenplays.  As a filmmaker and writer, Litza creates absurd, visceral worlds populated by no-nonsense detectives, fallen angels, cowgirls, lonely aliens, talking birds, witches and water-sucking ghosts. She also explores liminal spaces, thresholds and metaphorical journeys in her work.

As a film choreography specialist with 28 years of experience in the film and entertainment industries, Litza has created dance sequences, movement and action for some of the most iconic scenes in film, as well as for music videos, television and commercials. She has choreographed across a variety of styles and genres from ballet, commercial fusion, Lindy Hop, Salsa and Tango – to fight sequences, animation and puppetry. She directed the zombie movement for the cult hit film ‘Shaun of the Dead‘, and continued her collaboration with director Edgar Wright on the films ‘Scott Pilgrim vs the World‘ and ‘The World’s End‘. Her choreography is often absurd and humorous, and she deliberately plays with artifice and performative masks to reveal deeper human truths.

Current projects include a dance horror film, a genre-bending musical mini-series, a research project about authenticity in performance, a dance film adaptation of Metropolis and two docu-series exploring anticapitalism, deliberative democracy, sortition, and unconditional basic income. She has also written an animated feature and  a folk-horror TV pilot and is currently writing a novel. Her work explores what happens when worlds collapse – socially, politically, environmentally, and psychologically – with a focus on complex, nuanced characters.

Awards include: I.S.A. fellowship for her screenplay “The City of Clouds”, this screenplay was also a Semi-finalist in Creative Screenwriting Animation  and New Voices in Animation competitions, and her screenplays “Blood, Water, Dust” and “Safety in Numbers” have been shortlisted in multiple competitions including Writer’s Lab UK (2021 finalist) Blue Cat, Screen Craft, Nashville, Capital Films Hot 100, I.S.A Table-Read London, and I.S.A. top ten horror (2022). Most recently, her TV pilot was selected by Film Market Hub as one of their top ten projects and her film Bodies, Borders & Belonging was a finalist in the Best Digital Media category for the 2024 Climax Film Festival.

Litza is a member of BAFTA and a founding member of the American Choreographer’s Guild (2023). She is a dual national (US & UK) who has worked all over the world and has traveled extensively.

She also has a Masters Degree in Dance Anthropology / choreography and is trained in somatic techniques, hypnotherapy, counseling and coaching. For her public speaking, workshops, mentoring, academic publications and courses, CLICK HERE.

For a full list of credits, please download her CV.