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name: "Sofya Levitsky-Weitz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sofya-levitsky-weitz"
fi1m_id: "sofya-levitsky-weitz"
imdb_id: "nm6177111"
tmdb_id: 3755693
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:14:33.152454+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sofya Levitsky-Weitz

## Identity

Sofya Levitsky-Weitz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sofya-levitsky-weitz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sofya-levitsky-weitz
- **IMDb ID:** nm6177111
- **TMDB ID:** 3755693
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6177111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3755693

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6177111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3755693

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Bear*](https://film.one/tv/the-bear-2022.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a playwright and television and film writer. She holds an MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University, where she now serves on the advisory board. Her early career centred on playwriting, with work developed in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago; her play *this party sucks* appeared on the 2019 Kilroys’ List and is optioned by Mark Gordon Pictures.

On television she has written for *Gaslit* (2022) and served as story editor and writer on *The Dropout* (2022) and as writer, story editor and executive story editor on *The Bear* (2022–2023). She received Writers Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series for the first two seasons of *The Bear* and a nomination for *The Dropout*. She is also a writer and producer on the 2025 series *The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox*. Levitsky-Weitz is an alum of EST/Youngblood, a former Jerome Fellow and Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, and a MacDowell Fellow.

*Sources: sofyalevitskyweitz.com, imdb.com, variety.com, news.northwestern.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Bear* (2022), Fi1m 82, Writer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-bear-2022.md)
- *The Dropout* (2022), Fi1m 70, Story, Story Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Switch* (2026), Director, Writer
- *The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox* (2025), series, Writer
- *The Bear* (2022), series, Executive Story Editor, Writer, Story Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-bear-2022.md)
- *Gaslit* (2022), series, Writer
- *The Dropout* (2022), series, Story, Story Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md)

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