Скачать или смотреть The Creativity Lab Podcast | S1.13 | Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Writer/Screenwriter/Playwright

SOFYA LEVITSKY-WEITZ
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.

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WHAT IS THE CREATIVITY LAB PODCAST?
The Creativity Lab Podcast seeks to inspire all those who want to lead a creative life. We ask outstanding creative professionals and inspiring students the question: “How did you use your creative problem-solving skills to overcome your biggest obstacles?"

Our guests will share how creativity helped them to develop personal “life hacks,” to successfully deal with their worst fears, and how they made creativity an integral part of their everyday lives.

We will also speak with alumni of West Los Angeles College, including many who have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds not only to graduate, but also to go on to excel in their fields.

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WHO IS THE PODCAST?
The Creativity Lab Podcast is created and hosted by Dr. Katherine Boutry, Professor of English and Director of The Creativity Studies Lab at West Los Angeles College.

It is co-hosted and produced by Keisuke Hoashi, a film & TV actor with over 200 credits, plus an extensive past career in corporate American and nonprofit arts organizations.