Playwright. TV Writer. Screenwriter.
Based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a playwright and TV/film writer. She has original TV projects in development with Lionsgate, 20th Century Studios and Fifth Season. TV work includes FX’s THE BEAR (WGA Award for Outstanding New Comedy for S1 & 2), Hulu’s THE DROPOUT (WGA Nomination), GASLIT on Starz. She is a writer/producer for Hulu’s upcoming THE TWISTED TALE OF AMANDA KNOX for which she spent three months on set in Budapest top of 2025. She has an original film in development (which she will direct) with Marc Platt and has worked on multiple features with Michael Showalter including The Eyes of Tammy Faye. As a playwright, Sofya’s work has been developed in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Her play flinching is currently being developed by the Hearth for an LA premiere. Her play this party sucks (2019 Kilroy’s List) is optioned for the stage/film & TV rights by Mark Gordon Pictures and will be commercially produced in the coming year. Her play be mean to me was produced at Northwestern University for their theatrical season in 2022 and she was a guest artist in summer 2023 at Chautauqua Theatre Festival with her play Cannabis Passover (2020 O’Neill Finalist, IAMA development). She has been a 2018-2019 Jerome Fellow and 2019-2022 Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and is an alum of the Obie Award winning collective EST/Youngblood. She is a MacDowell Fellow and has been in residence at Barn Arts, TOFTE Lake, and was a panelist for the 2023 Austin Film Festival. She got her MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University, where she now serves on the Advisory Board.
Photo by Izak Rappaport
Representation
Creative Artists Agency
Di Glazer & Kevin Lin
Ilana Goren, Howie Tanenbaum & Austin Denesuk
Christina Chou
Luminosity Management:
Kelly Miller, Manager