From Clifford Odets and Tennessee Williams to Theresa Rebeck and David Mamet, playwrights have repeatedly written about their anguish over selling their souls for a Hollywood dime. And that’s even without a writers strike.

The new Itamar Moses play at Theater Wit is a further entry in that long-standing genre; Moses (“The Band’s Visit”) is a longtime and distinguished writer who, these last several years, has mostly been writing for the screens inside your home; always a tricky trade-off.

In “The Whistleblower,” Moses’ titular scribe, Eli (played by Ben Faigus), is so disturbed by the need to pitch his ideas for television that it sparks a full-blown existential crisis that involves getting everyone in his orbit to face uncomfortable truths about themselves and thus blows up his entire career and personal life. And there’s a further self-referential rub: The very script he is pitching just happens to be the story of a writer’s meltdown, prefiguring what then happens to that very writer himself.

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