“Yes, Chef” The Cultural Impact Of ‘The Bear’ On FX
The Bear on FX is a pressure-cooker microcosm of life. The relentless anxiety of counting bookings, Michelin stars, deliveries that run short, and unpaid vendors is part of the fine dining/ sandwich shop experience that creator Christopher Storer created. This pervasive stress, feelings of being helpless, being stuck, and swallowing water could occur in an operating […]
TV Writer & Playwright Sofya Levitsky-Weitz Talks “The Dropout” & “The Bear” (Part 2)
“In The Bear, I was really curious about pulling through Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and pulling through Sugar (Abby Elliott), says Sofya Levitsky-Weitz. “How do we look at these sort of the women in this show even if they don’t always come to the forefront? Carmey is the lead, but we also have this co-lead in […]
TV Writer & Playwright Sofya Levitsky-Weitz Talks “The Dropout” & “The Bear” (Part 1)
“I started writing professionally as a playwright and that was my entry point to film and TV,” says Sofya Levity-Weitz (The Dropout) who works on the wildly successful TV show The Bear, starring Jeremy Allan White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri. “I also acted and directed in preschool and undergrad. Then I went to graduate […]
