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Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a Brooklyn and LA-based TV writer and playwright.For TV, she was a writer for FX's critically acclaimed The Bear and Hulu's The Dropout, and a writer for Starz's Gaslit.As a playwright, her plays include this party sucks (on the 2019 Kilroy's List), Cannabis Passover (PWC Playlabs, 2021-2 finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference), be mean to me,  and Intuitive Men, and her musical Nostalgia Night (composer: Matt McCollum) was produced in Winter 2022. Sofya has projects in development with Lionsgate, her play this party sucks is optioned by Mark Gordon Pictures for the stage and film/TV rights and will be commercially produced next year, and The Bear Season 2 is expected to release in 2023.https://www.sofyalevitskyweitz.com

Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a Brooklyn and LA-based TV writer and playwright. For TV, she was a writer for FX's critically acclaimed The Bear and Hulu's The Dropout, and a writer for Starz's Gaslit. As a playwright, her plays include this party sucks (on the 2019 Kilroy's List), Cannabis Passover (PWC Playlabs, 2021-2 finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference), be mean to me, and Intuitive Men, and her musical Nostalgia Night (composer: Matt McCollum) was produced in Winter 2022. Sofya has projects in development with Lionsgate, her play this party sucks is optioned by Mark Gordon Pictures for the stage and film/TV rights and will be commercially produced next year, and The Bear Season 2 is expected to release in 2023. <a href="https://www.sofyalevitskyweitz.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sofyalevitskyweitz.com</a>

Ep 171 - NEW! "Writing THE BEAR" with Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, TV Writer and Playwright

Welcome and thank you for joining us! Each episode we discuss a creative approach to life’s challenges. Today, co-host DR. STELLA SETKA and I talk to playwright and television writer SOFYA LEVITSKY-WEITZ about humanizing flawed real-life people and turning them into characters, complicated relationships both on and off screen, letting ideas percolate, and the love of revising.  Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a playwright and TV/film writer who splits her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles. She’s written for Hulu’s THE DROPOUT, FX’s THE BEAR, and GASLIT for Starz. Her play "This Party Sucks" (on the 2019 Kilroy’s List) will be produced on Broadway next year. Her musical "Nostalgia Night" was produced in Winter 2022. She’s worked on several movies with Michael Showalter including Fox Searchlight’s THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE My co-host STELLA SETKA is Associate Professor of English at West LA College, and the author of Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives which looks at the way that authors of Black, Jewish, and Indigenous descent employ culturally specific supernatural elements as a way of helping readers connect to historical traumas such as enslavement and genocide. Interviewed by podcast creator &amp; host Dr. Katherine Boutry

Welcome and thank you for joining us! Each episode we discuss a creative approach to life’s challenges. Today, co-host DR. STELLA SETKA and I talk to playwright and television writer SOFYA LEVITSKY-WEITZ about humanizing flawed real-life people and turning them into characters, complicated relationships both on and off screen, letting ideas percolate, and the love of revising.  Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a playwright and TV/film writer who splits her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles. She’s written for Hulu’s THE DROPOUT, FX’s THE BEAR, and GASLIT for Starz. Her play "This Party Sucks" (on the 2019 Kilroy’s List) will be produced on Broadway next year. Her musical "Nostalgia Night" was produced in Winter 2022. She’s worked on several movies with Michael Showalter including Fox Searchlight’s THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE My co-host STELLA SETKA is Associate Professor of English at West LA College, and the author of Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives which looks at the way that authors of Black, Jewish, and Indigenous descent employ culturally specific supernatural elements as a way of helping readers connect to historical traumas such as enslavement and genocide. Interviewed by podcast creator &amp; host Dr. Katherine Boutry

Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Writer & Playwright | S1-13

Lily and Sofya go to EST for the first time in a long time. But is anyone checking on the lights? The water filter? What happened to the shelves? And what was the play, the play they were here to see?   Co-written by Youngblood’s Lily Houghton and Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, directed by Jake Beckhard, featuring Jacob Brandt, Lily Houghton, &amp; Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, with sound designer Jack Mullin &amp; sound engineer Caroline Eng.    Help us bring more plays to the table at ESTnyc.org/lunchmoney.

Lily and Sofya go to EST for the first time in a long time. But is anyone checking on the lights? The water filter? What happened to the shelves? And what was the play, the play they were here to see? Co-written by Youngblood’s Lily Houghton and Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, directed by Jake Beckhard, featuring Jacob Brandt, Lily Houghton, &amp; Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, with sound designer Jack Mullin &amp; sound engineer Caroline Eng.  Help us bring more plays to the table at <a href="http://ESTnyc.org/lunchmoney" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ESTnyc.org/lunchmoney</a>.