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 […]
“Raw & Absurd” How Showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether Describes ‘The Dropout’
There seems to be something about stories of billionaire tech titans falling from dizzying heights on our screens of late. The Dropout chronicles the path of Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) who dropped out of Stanford to start Theranos, her own healthcare company that purported to diagnose countless medical conditions using only a few drops of […]
