40 Under 40: Sara Lukasiewicz

A burgeoning Hollywood writer and talented actress of stage and screen, Sara Lukasiewicz’s path to Atlanta has been a bit circuitous.

Born and raised in NYC, Lukasiewicz had moved to LA to pursue her career. At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, she had been working in the writer’s room for the “Black-ish” series spinoff, “Grown-ish.” Her work continued, but went remote, allowing her and her husband to travel around.

“We visited friends who had also left Los Angeles, who were living up in Sandy Springs. I had never been to Georgia, and we just thought ‘it’s gorgeous here’. We just thought it was beautiful and it checked a lot of boxes for us.”

The two found a place with a nearby shul – Congregation B’nai Israel, but found it a little small after moving – so they decided to dig in. Lukasiewicz became Chair of Development there, and created a program called Shalom Sprouts, designed to help get babies and their families involved early on.

Continuing to spread her passion for writing, Lukasiewicz has served as a theater and writing instructor with YPI (Young People’s Institute) and has mentored many young women through the organization WriteGirl.

“It’s an organization that helps girls find their voices and take on leadership positions and find strengths within themselves to be able to go out into the world and have total confidence, and we do that all through the pen, through journaling, through writing scripts, through poetry.”

She’s honored to receive a grant from the Jewish Writers Institute, where alongside her writing partner, Brady Morphy, she is part of the 2026–2027 cohort, which is helping fund their movie “Til Death,” a horror-comedy about a dybbuk unleashed at a dysfunctional Jewish family’s wedding.

As she continues expanding both her writing and acting career, we can look forward to some of her unreleased work.

“Some of my favorite things that I’ve written have yet to be made.”