{{short description|American television creator (born 1965)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Joey Soloway | image = Soloway portrait.jpg | image_size = | alt = Joey Soloway, May 2018 | caption = Soloway in May 2018 | birth_name = Jill Soloway | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|09|26}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | education = | alma_mater = University of Wisconsin–Madison | occupation = {{flatlist| *Writer *director *producer *comedian}} | years_active = 2000–present | spouse = {{marriage|Bruce Gilbert|2011|2015|reason=separated}}<ref name=NewYorker>{{cite magazine|last1=Levy|first1=Ariel|title=Dolls and Feelings|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/14/dolls-and-feelings|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=December 11, 2015}}</ref> | partner = | children = 2 | relatives = Faith Soloway (sibling) }} '''Joey Soloway''' (born '''Jill Soloway'''; September 26, 1965)<ref name=FamilySearch-USPubRecords-2009>{{cite web|title=Jill L Soloway – United States Public Records, 1970–2009|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KP62-G2K|website=FamilySearch|access-date=August 31, 2014}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-TinyLadiesShinyPants-2005">{{cite news|title= Jill Soloway: To Tell the Truth|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/fashion/sundaystyles/04nite.html |newspaper= The New York Times|first=Monica|last=Corcoran|date=September 4, 2005|quote= Ms. Soloway, 39}}</ref><ref name="ChicagoTribune-Transparent-2014">{{cite news|title= Jill Soloway hits it big with Amazon's 'Transparent'|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2014/03/21/jill-soloway-hits-it-big-with-amazons-transparent/|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|first=Mark|last=Caro|date=March 21, 2014|quote=Jill, 48}}</ref> is an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer. Soloway is known for creating, writing, executive producing and directing the Amazon original series ''Transparent'', winning two Emmy Awards for the show;<ref name="NYTimes-AfternoonDelight-2013">{{cite news|last1=Ryzik|first1=Melena|title=A Female Gaze on Ladies Who Lust: 'Afternoon Delight' Is Jill Soloway's Sexually Frank Debut|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/movies/afternoon-delight-is-jill-soloways-sexually-frank-debut.html|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=August 22, 2013}}</ref> directing and writing the film ''Afternoon Delight'', winning the Best Director award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival; and producing ''Six Feet Under''.
Soloway identifies as non-binary and gender non-conforming, and uses ''they/them'' pronouns.<ref name="guardian-21may2017">{{cite news |last1=Freeman|first1=Hadley|title=Transparent's Jill Soloway: 'The words male and female describe who we used to be'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/21/transparents-jill-soloway-the-words-male-and-female-describe-who-we-used-to-be|access-date=May 25, 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=May 21, 2017}}</ref> In 2020, Soloway announced a name change from Jill to Joey.<ref>{{Cite web|title=@joeysoloway on Instagram: "The world is exploding, but I didn't want to not share my evolution. It feels so good to have a name that matches my nonbinary identity. I…"|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6n0JAFO2_/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CB6n0JAFO2_ |archive-date=December 24, 2021 |url-access=limited|access-date=June 27, 2020|website=Instagram|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
==Early life== Soloway was born in Chicago, Illinois to writer and public relations consultant Elaine Soloway and psychiatrist Carrie Soloway, who grew up in London. Around 2011, Carrie Soloway came out as transgender.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Green|first=Penelope|date=October 13, 2018|title=They Live in Public|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/style/jill-soloway.html|access-date=July 18, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=ChicagoTrib-Elaine-2010>{{cite news|last1=Schmich|first1=Mary|title=Risky to reveal your age? Businesswoman isn't afraid to reveal she's 72|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-10-13/features/ct-met-schmich-1013-20101013_1_pr-move-apple-store-hook|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109163037/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-10-13/features/ct-met-schmich-1013-20101013_1_pr-move-apple-store-hook|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2011|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 13, 2010}}</ref>
Soloway's elder sibling<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bartov |first=Shira Li |date=2023-05-22 |title=With greater representation, an on-stage 'Transparent' musical looks to transcend the Amazon show's rocky ending |url=https://www.jta.org/2023/05/22/culture/with-greater-representation-an-on-stage-transparent-musical-looks-to-transcend-the-amazon-shows-rocky-ending |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref> Faith Soloway is a Boston-based musician and performer, with whom Joey sometimes collaborates.<ref name=Rumpus-Sisters-2010>{{cite news|last1=Soloway|first1=Faith|last2=Soloway|first2=Jill|title=The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters|url=http://therumpus.net/2010/10/the-funny-women-interview-the-soloway-sisters|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=The Rumpus|date=October 25, 2010}}</ref><ref name=HuffPo-EmmysJaneLynch-2011>{{cite news|last1=Brune|first1=Adrian Margaret|title=A Tale of Two Sisters: Jill and Faith Soloway, Collaborators, Partners, Emmy Writers|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/adrian-margaret-brune/a-tale-of-two-sisters-jil_b_965184.html|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Huffington Post|date=September 16, 2011}}</ref><ref name=AfterEllen-Sisters-2012>{{cite web|title=Liz and Rebecca Feldman face off against Jill and Faith Soloway in a Sister Spelling Bee|url=http://www.afterellen.com/liz-and-rebecca-feldman-face-off-against-jill-and-faith-soloway-in-a-sister-spelling-bee/06/2012|website=After Ellen|access-date=August 21, 2014|date=June 19, 2012}}</ref><ref name=BostonGlobe-Sisters-2013>{{cite news|last1=King|first1=Loren|title=Meet the Soloway sisters|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/09/14/meet-soloway-sisters/yEYP8sqwphY6d545105CEP/story.html|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Boston Globe|date=September 14, 2013}}</ref> Both Joey and Faith attended Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago.<ref name=ChiReader-Masturgoogler-2005>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Danny|title=Confessions of a Masturgoogler: The Real Live Brady Bunch got her started, Six Feet Under made her legit, but Jill Soloway won't be happy until she's a household name.|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/confessions-of-a-masturgoogler/Content?oid=919916|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Chicago Reader|date=September 15, 2005|archive-date=December 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219054947/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/confessions-of-a-masturgoogler/Content?oid=919916|url-status=dead}}</ref> Joey Soloway graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a communications arts major.<ref name=NYTimes-Transparent-2014>{{cite news|last1=Brodesser-Akner|first1=Taffy|author-link=Taffy Brodesser-Akner|title=Can Jill Soloway Do Justice to the Trans Movement?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/magazine/can-jill-soloway-do-justice-to-the-trans-movement.html?Src=longreads&_r=0|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=August 29, 2014|location=NY Times Magazine}}</ref><ref name=UW-CommArts-2013>{{cite web|last1=Trevis|first1=Michael|title=Filmmaker Jill Soloway Visits Her Alma Mater|url=https://commarts.wisc.edu/about/news/2013/11/21/filmmaker-jill-soloway-visits-her-alma-mater|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618195746/https://commarts.wisc.edu/about/news/2013/11/21/filmmaker-jill-soloway-visits-her-alma-mater|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 18, 2015|website=Department of Communication Arts|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|access-date=August 31, 2014|date=November 21, 2013}}</ref><ref name=WIGazette-AftDelight-2013>{{cite news|last1=Shapiro|first1=Gregg|title=UW-Madison alumna Jill Soloway says her Sundance Award-winning debut film is a tribute to sisterhood|url=http://www.wisconsingazette.com/film/uw-madison-alumna-jill-soloway-says-her-sundance-award-winning-debut-film-is-a-tribute-to-sisterhood.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140831152952/http://www.wisconsingazette.com/film/uw-madison-alumna-jill-soloway-says-her-sundance-award-winning-debut-film-is-a-tribute-to-sisterhood.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 31, 2014|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Wisconsin Gazette|date=September 6, 2013}}</ref>
Soloway's mother was formerly a press aide to Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and was a former communications director for School Superintendent Ruth Love.<ref name=ElaineSolowayConsulting-Team>{{cite web|title=Elaine & Her Team|url=http://www.elainesolowayconsulting.com/#!about/c20r9|website=Elaine Soloway Consulting|access-date=August 31, 2014|archive-date=September 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903132938/http://www.elainesolowayconsulting.com/#!about/c20r9|url-status=dead}}</ref> After 30 years, Soloway's parents divorced in 1990.<ref name=SolowayStories-SweetTooth-2009>{{cite web|last1=Elaine|first1=Soloway|title=Sweet Tooth|url=http://solowaystories.blogspot.com/2009/04/sweet-tooth.html|website=Soloway Stories|access-date=August 31, 2014|date=April 23, 2009}}</ref> Soloway has a stepfather named Tommy Madison.<ref name=FamilySearch-Elaine-M2-1998>{{cite web|title=Elaine M Soloway: Nevada, Marriage Index, 1956-2005|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VVKW-3TQ|website=Family Search|access-date=August 31, 2014|date=January 13, 1998}}</ref>
==Career== While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Soloway was a film and television student of JJ Murphy and participated in the creation of an undergraduate experimental narrative film entitled ''Ring of Fire'' as the assistant director under director Anita Katzman. After college Soloway worked as a production assistant in commercials and music videos in Chicago, as well as at Kartemquin Films on the movie ''Hoop Dreams''.<ref name=NYTimes-Transparent-2014/>
While in Chicago, Joey and Faith co-developed a parody of ''The Brady Bunch'' for live stage called ''The Real Live Brady Bunch'', which began their professional theatrical writing and directing endeavors. They also sold a pilot script to HBO called ''Jewess Jones'' about a female superhero. Also at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, the pair created plays ''The Miss Vagina Pageant'', and later, while in Los Angeles, ''Not Without My Nipples''.
With Maggie Rowe, Soloway co-created ''Hollywood Hellhouse'' and ''Sit n' Spin.''<ref name=Jewcy-EastSide-2011>{{cite web|last1=Lustick|first1=Adam|title=The Big Jewcy: Jill Soloway – Writer/Producer, Making Things Happen On LA's East Side|url=http://www.jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/the-big-jewcy-jill-soloway-writer-producer-east-side-jews|website=Jewcy|access-date=August 31, 2014|date=June 17, 2011|archive-date=September 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903154145/http://www.jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/the-big-jewcy-jill-soloway-writer-producer-east-side-jews|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Television=== Soloway's TV writing career began on shows such as ''The Oblongs'', ''Nikki'', and ''The Steve Harvey Show''. Soloway followed those shows by writing for four seasons on the HBO original series ''Six Feet Under'', ultimately serving as co-executive producer. ''Six Feet Under'' ran for five seasons from 2001 to 2005.<ref name=HollywoodJournal-BrainPickins-2013>{{cite web|title=Jill Soloway answers the most frequently asked questions about TV|url=http://hollywoodjournal.com/industry-impressions/jill-soloway-answers-the-most-frequently-asked-questions-about-tv/20130909|website=Hollywood Journal|access-date=August 31, 2014|date=September 9, 2013|archive-date=September 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903141211/http://hollywoodjournal.com/industry-impressions/jill-soloway-answers-the-most-frequently-asked-questions-about-tv/20130909/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Soloway received three Emmy nominations in 2002, 2003, and 2005 for Outstanding Drama Series.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813561/|title=Jill Soloway|website=IMDb|access-date=April 22, 2018}}</ref> Soloway's short story, ''Courteney Cox's Asshole'', caught the attention of Alan Ball and led to the job.<ref name=ChiReader-Masturgoogler-2005/>
Soloway later wrote episodes of ''Dirty Sexy Money'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', and ''Tell Me You Love Me'' and was executive producer/showrunner for the second season of Showtime's ''United States of Tara'', created by Diablo Cody, as well as HBO's ''How to Make It in America'', created by Ian Edelman.
In August 2016, Amazon premiered a Soloway-directed pilot of ''I Love Dick'', based on the novel by the same name by Chris Kraus.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/i-love-dick-amazon-series-order-jill-soloway-1201851543/|title='I Love Dick' Nearing Series Greenlight, Says Jill Soloway|last=Birnbaum|first=Elizabeth Wagmeister, Debra|date=September 3, 2016|newspaper=Variety|access-date=December 21, 2016|language=en-US}}</ref> It was later picked up for a full season,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/09/i-love-dick-jean-claude-van-johnson-the-tick-series-amazon-pilots-1201826742/|title='I Love Dick', 'Jean-Claude Van Johnson' & 'The Tick' Picked Up To Series By Amazon|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=September 27, 2016|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=February 24, 2017}}</ref> which premiered on May 12, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/01/jill-soloway-i-love-dick-amazon-premiere-date-sundance-debut-1201890411/|title=Jill Soloway's 'I Love Dick' Gets Amazon Premiere Date Ahead Of Sundance Debut|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=January 20, 2017|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=February 24, 2017}}</ref>
====''Transparent''==== Soloway created the pilot ''Transparent'' for Amazon.com, which became available for streaming and download on February 6, 2014, and was part of Amazon's second pilot season.<ref name="HitFix-Trans-2014">{{cite news|last1=Fienberg|first1=Daniel|title=Interview: 'Transparent' creator Jill Soloway discusses their Amazon pilot|url=http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/interview-transparent-creator-jill-soloway-discusses-her-amazon-pilot|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=HitFix|date=February 15, 2014|archive-date=October 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010165836/http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/interview-transparent-creator-jill-soloway-discusses-her-amazon-pilot|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Vuture-Transparent-2014">{{cite news|last1=Lyons|first1=Margaret|title=Talking to Jill Soloway About Her Wonderful Amazon Pilot, Transparent|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/02/jill-soloway-on-her-amazon-pilot-transparent.html|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Vulture|date=February 13, 2014}}</ref> Joey and Faith Soloway collaborated on ''Transparent'', including serving as co-writers.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Villarejo|first=Amy|date=June 1, 2016|title=Jewish, Queer-ish, Trans, and Completely Revolutionary: Jill Soloway's Transparent and the New Television|journal= Film Quarterly|language=en|volume=69|issue=4|pages=10–22|doi=10.1525/fq.2016.69.4.10|issn=0015-1386}}</ref> Joey was inspired by their parent who came out as a transgender woman.<ref name=HReporter-TransMoment-2014>{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Stacey|title='Transparent' Boss Reveals the Moment She Decided to Make a Show About a Transgender Parent|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transparent-boss-reveals-moment-she-758426|access-date=December 15, 2015|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=December 17, 2014}}</ref> The show stars Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker as siblings whose parent (played by Jeffrey Tambor) reveals she is going through a {{clarify span|significant life transition|explain=needs additional source|date=August 2023}}.<ref name="HReporter-Transparent-2014">{{cite news|last1=Goodman|first1=Tim|title=Amazon's New Crop of Pilots, Including Chris Carter's 'The After': TV Review|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/amazon-tv-pilots-reviewed-680925|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 18, 2014}}</ref> The pilot for ''Transparent'' was picked up by Amazon Studios.<ref name="NYTimes-Transparent-2014" /><ref name="Indiewire-Trans-2014">{{cite news|last1=Willmore|first1=Alison|title=Why 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway Feels the Amazon Pilot Process is 'Revolutionary'|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/television/jill-soloway-interview-transparent|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Indiewire|date=February 7, 2014}}</ref>
As part of the making of the show, Soloway enacted a "transfirmative action program", whereby transgender applicants were hired in preference to non-transgender ones.<ref name=NYTimes-Transparent-2014/> {{as of|August 2014}}, over 80 transgender people have worked on the show, including two transgender consultants.<ref name=NYTimes-Transparent-2014/>
Soloway wrote Hoffmann's role on ''Transparent'' especially for her after seeing her performance on ''Louie''.<ref name=HReporter-Trans-JillGabyDuos-2014>{{cite news|last1=Katz|first1=Jessie|title=Pret-a Reporter: Dynamic Duos: Jill Soloway and Gaby Hoffmann are Ready to Inhabit Your Brain|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dynamic-duos-jill-soloway-gaby-687730|access-date=September 1, 2014|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=March 11, 2014}}</ref> ''Transparent'' premiered all ten episodes simultaneously in late September 2014.<ref name=Variety-Trans-TCAs-2014>{{cite news|last1=Prudom|first1=Laura|title=Amazon's 'Transparent' Season 1 to Debut Late September|url=https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/amazon-transparent-full-season-premiere-bosch-2015-1201261698|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Variety|date=July 12, 2014}}</ref> The show wrapped its fourth season in 2017, and concluded with a movie finale in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/transparent-amazon-renew-season-5-1202537889/|title='Transparent' Renewed for Season 5 at Amazon|last=Littleton|first=Cynthia|date=August 24, 2017|work=Variety|access-date=February 12, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
Soloway received two Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2016 for ''Transparent'' and the show has received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.<ref name=":1" />
===Film=== Soloway's first film was a 13-minute short titled ''Una Hora Por Favora'', which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The film stars Michaela Watkins and Wilmer Valderrama. The film tells the story of a woman (Watkins) who hires a day laborer (Valderrama) to do some work at her home, but their relationship soon goes beyond the professional.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/watch-afternoon-delight-director-jill-soloway-s-first-film-una-hora-por-favora-6bbee233d294/|title=Watch 'Afternoon Delight' Director Jill Soloway's First Film 'Una Hora Por Favora'|date=September 1, 2013|work=Film School Rejects|access-date=April 22, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/sundance-2012-watch-the-shorts_n_1223873.html|title=Sundance 2012: Watch The Shorts, 'The Arm,' 'Una Hora Por Favora,' 'Dol' And More (VIDEO)|last=Rao|first=Mallika|date=January 23, 2012|work=Huffington Post|access-date=April 22, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://remezcla.com/film/una-hora-por-favora-jill-soloway-wilmer-valderrama/|title=A Lonely Woman Who Picks Up a Day Laborer Makes for a Hilarious Short Film|date=October 19, 2015|work=Remezcla|access-date=April 22, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
Soloway's debut at Sundance, ''Afternoon Delight'' (2013) won the Directing Award.<ref name="Tablet-AfternoonDelight-2013">{{cite news|last1=Soffer|first1=Rebecca|title=Strippers, Jewish Guilt, and Loneliness Collide in Jill Soloway's New Feature Film: The award-winning director talks about why 'Afternoon Delight' begins with a lap dance and ends with Shabbat|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/140850/jill-soloway|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Tablet Magazine|date=August 19, 2013|format=podcast}}</ref> The film follows Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), a thirty-something woman who is struggling to rekindle her relationship with her husband (Josh Radnor), and ultimately befriends an exotic dancer (Juno Temple).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/afternoon-delight-2013|title=Afternoon Delight Movie Review (2013) {{!}} Roger Ebert|last=Lemire|first=Christy|website=www.rogerebert.com|language=en|access-date=April 22, 2018}}</ref> In an interview by IndieWire, Soloway had a personal connection to the film's central character, explaining "There's a lot of me in Rachel's journey. I've never brought a stripper home, but I've always loved reading the memoirs of strippers and sex workers. I feel like they're the war reporters for women. They go to the front lines of a very particular kind of extreme conflict and live there, then write about it so we can experience it with them."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/08/interview-with-jill-soloway-writer-and-director-of-afternoon-delight-208480/|title=Interview with Jill Soloway – Writer and Director of Afternoon Delight|last=Silverstein|first=Melissa|date=August 23, 2013|work=IndieWire|access-date=April 24, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
''Afternoon Delight'' played at national and international film festivals and was nominated for multiple awards, including a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance for Hahn and a Spirit Award for First Feature.<ref name="HuffPo-AfternoonDelight-2013">{{cite news|last1=Bronner|first1=Sasha|title=Jill Soloway, 'Afternoon Delight' Filmmaker: I Should Have Written 'Girls' 10 Years Ago|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/29/jill-soloway-afternoon-delight_n_3838891.html|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=The Huffington Post|date=August 29, 2013}}</ref>
In June 2019, Soloway signed on to write, direct and produce the ''Red Sonja'' remake.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/06/jill-soloway-red-sonja-new-director-transparent-creator-replace-bryan-singer-millennium-films-reboot-1202635998/|title='Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway To Write & Direct 'Red Sonja'|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=June 21, 2019|access-date=June 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Stedman|first1=Alex|last2=Donnelly|first2=Matt|date=June 21, 2019|title=Jill Soloway Replaces Bryan Singer as 'Red Sonja' Director|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/jill-soloway-red-sonja-bryan-singer-1203250238/|website=Variety}}</ref> Soloway later left the project but remained an executive producer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/breaking-the-curse-red-sonja-1235294594/ |title=Breaking the Curse of 'Red Sonja' |website=The Hollywood Reporter |last=Johnson |first=Scott |date=January 11, 2023 |access-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111140623/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/breaking-the-curse-red-sonja-1235294594/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Writing=== Soloway wrote the novella ''Jodi K.'', which was published in the collection ''Three Kinds of Asking For It: Erotic Novellas'', edited by Susie Bright. Soloway's memoir, ''Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story'', was released in hardcover in 2005, and in paperback in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | last=Smith | first=Paul | title=Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants | website=Simon & Schuster | date=17 October 2006 | url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tiny-Ladies-in-Shiny-Pants/Jill-Soloway/9780743272186 | access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> In 2018, Soloway published another book, ''She Wants It: Desire, Power and Toppling the Patriarchy'', with Ebury Press, a division of Penguin Random House.
Jewish religion and culture, sexuality, and gender are recurring themes in Soloway's show, ''Transparent''.<ref name=":2"/> According to Soloway, "The ''Transparent'' narrative is not, then, just or even mostly about transition and transgender. It's about big themes like familial secrets and transformation, revelation and change, all of which are rendered through the specificity and magic of television images and sounds, which create imaginative worlds."<ref name=":2" />
In September 2016, Soloway gave a master class on the female gaze at the Toronto International Film Festival.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|title=THE FEMALE GAZE|url=https://www.toppleproductions.com/the-female-gaze|access-date=April 9, 2021|website=topple|language=en|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414201009/https://www.toppleproductions.com/the-female-gaze|url-status=dead}}</ref> The term male gaze was first coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay ''Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'' and, just like Mulvey, Soloway gives their own definition of the Female Gaze in three parts.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Benson-Allott|first=Caetlin|title=No Such Thing Not Yet|journal=Film Quarterly|year=2017|volume=71|issue=2|pages=65–71|doi=10.1525/fq.2017.71.2.65|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26413865|jstor=26413865|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Part one: "reclaiming the body, using it with intention to communicate Feeling Seeing".<ref name=":02" /> An example of this female gaze is in the television show ''I Love Dick'', Soloway said in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival that, "''I Love Dick''...is a series that confronts us with the power of that feminist anger, the female gaze..."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fallon|first=Kevin|date=May 11, 2017|title=TV's Most Feminist Show: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Hahn & Jill Soloway on 'I Love Dick': Intersectionality, the female gaze, feminist anger, and Kevin Bacon's butt. Bacon, star Kathryn Hahn, and creator Jill Soloway on the power of Amazon's provocative 'I Love Dick.'|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1897622686|id={{ProQuest|1897622686}}}}</ref> Then, part two: the gazed gaze which Soloway describes as taking the camera and using it to show how it feels to be the object of the gaze.<ref name=":02" /> For example, in the film ''Fish Tank'', Soloway says it does exactly that, "...while I was watching it, I was like this is the female gaze. She is showing us how it feels to be this girl. She is not looking at this girl" they explained.<ref>{{Cite news|date=October 30, 2014|title=Funny, Dirty, Sad: The 'Holy Trinity' For 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway|work=Philadelphia: NPR|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1618222069|id={{ProQuest|1618222069}}}}</ref> And part three: a "Socio-Political justice-demanding way of art making" and returning the gaze.<ref name=":02" /> The female gaze is about people reclaiming ownership over their body, deciding how it can be portrayed and, as Soloway points out, is a "conscious effort to create empathy as a political tool" thus seeking out empathy rather than objectification.<ref name=":02" />
Soloway's writing is often about "The Heroine's Journey", which is about "repairing the divided feminine: the wife and the other woman confronting each other--mom, stripper. That I think women's journeys are really about repairing these sort of divided parts of ourselves. And this divide in our culture that I think is responsible for so much that is a problem in our culture."<ref name="VanityFair-Sundance-AfternoonDelight-2013">{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Krista|title=Josh Radnor and Jill Soloway on Afternoon Delight|url=http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/josh-radnor-and-jill-soloway-on-afternoon-delight|access-date=September 7, 2014|work=Vanity Fair|date=January 22, 2013|location=Park City, Utah|format=Video interview|archive-date=September 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907082105/http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/josh-radnor-and-jill-soloway-on-afternoon-delight|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Honors== Soloway has seven Emmy nominations and two wins.<ref name=":1" /> Soloway is also a member of the board of the San Francisco Film Society.<ref name=Indiewire-17Reasons-2013>{{cite news|last1=Soloway|first1=Jill|title=17 Reasons Why Chicks Actually Make Better Directors|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/17-reasons-why-chicks-actually-make-better-directors|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Indiewire|date=August 16, 2013}}</ref>
In 2015, Soloway's show ''Transparent'' won a Golden Globe for Best Series - Musical or Comedy, which Soloway dedicated to Leelah Alcorn after her suicide the year prior.<ref name=GoldenGlobes-2015>{{cite news|title=Golden Globe Winners 2015|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/golden-globe-winners-2015-updated-list-1201400369|access-date=February 24, 2015|work=Variety|date=January 11, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenfield |first=Kat |date=January 11, 2015 |title=Here Is 'Transparent' Paying Touching Tribute To Leelah Alcorn With Golden Globe Win |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/gs0jcw/transparent-leelah-alcorn-golden-globes-speech |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929062406/https://www.mtv.com/news/gs0jcw/transparent-leelah-alcorn-golden-globes-speech |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=MTV |language=en-US}}</ref> Later that same year, Soloway won a DGA Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for directing episode 1.08 ("Best New Girl") of the show.<ref name=DGAs-2015>{{cite news|title=DGA Awards Winners 2015|url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/directors-guild-award-winners-2015-dga-winner-list-dga-awards-1201368698|access-date=February 24, 2015|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=February 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/20/entertainment/emmy-awards-2015-winners-list-feat|title=Emmy Awards 2015: The complete winners list|publisher=CNN|date=September 21, 2015|access-date=September 21, 2015}}</ref> In 2016, Soloway won another Emmy for directing episode 2.09 (" Man on the Land") of ''Transparent''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/68th-emmy-winners-v1.pdf|title=Complete Listing of 68th Emmy Awards Winners|publisher=Primetime Emmys|date=September 20, 2016|access-date=September 20, 2016}}</ref> Also in 2016, Soloway was a finalist for ''The Advocate'''s Person of the Year,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/people/2016/11/11/person-year-finalists?pg=4#article-content |title=Person of the Year: The Finalists |publisher=Advocate.com |date=November 11, 2016 |access-date=December 15, 2016}}</ref> and was named to Oprah Winfrey's ''SuperSoul 100'' list of visionaries and influential leaders.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 1, 2016 |title=Meet the SuperSoul100: The World's Biggest Trailblazers in One Room |url=http://www.oprah.com/spirit/supersoul100-the-worlds-biggest-trailblazers-in-one-room |work=O Magazine |access-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705180050/http://www.oprah.com/spirit/supersoul100-the-worlds-biggest-trailblazers-in-one-room |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Soloway was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2022.<ref name="Jake">{{cite news |last1=Wittich |first1=Jake |title=14 People, Organizations, Allies To Be Inducted Into Chicago LGBT Hall Of Fame: 'It's Important We're Not Erased From History' |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/10/05/14-people-organizations-allies-to-be-inducted-into-chicago-lgbt-hall-of-fame-its-important-were-not-erased-from-history/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |publisher=Block Club Chicago |date=October 5, 2022}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2011, Soloway married music supervisor Bruce Gilbert, with whom Soloway had been in a relationship since 2008. They have a son. Soloway's older son is from a prior relationship with artist John Strozier. In 2015, Soloway announced their separation from Gilbert, and that Soloway was in a relationship with poet Eileen Myles, whom Soloway met through ''Transparent'';<ref name=NewYorker/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ennis|first1=Dawn|title=Transparent Creator Jill Soloway Comes Out|url=http://www.advocate.com/people/2015/12/08/transparent-creator-jill-soloway-comes-out|access-date=December 11, 2015|work=The Advocate|date=December 8, 2015}}</ref> their romantic relationship has since ended,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2016/10/27/love-story-jill-soloway-and-eileen-myles|title=The Love Story of Jill Soloway and Eileen Myles|date=October 27, 2016|access-date=March 8, 2017|language=en}}</ref> and Myles and Soloway held an event at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in which they "processed [their] relationship onstage".<ref name=":0" />
Soloway lives in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.<ref name=NYTimes-AfternoonDelight-2013/><ref name=LATimes-TinyLadies-2005>{{cite news|last1=Looseleaf|first1=Victoria|title=My Favorite Weekend: Jill Soloway – A few feet away from 'Six Feet Under' days|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-13-wk-fav13-story.html|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 13, 2005}}</ref>
In Soloway's memoir ''She Wants It'', Soloway discusses accepting a nonbinary identity at age 50 after filming the first two seasons of ''Transparent''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy|last=Soloway|first=Jill|publisher=Crown|year=2018|location=New York|page=155}}</ref>
===Activism=== Soloway is a strong supporter of feminism<ref name="NOW-2007">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vB2DLoN8k |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/V1vB2DLoN8k |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Jill Soloway - A Day In the Life|work=National Organization for Women (NOW)|date=August 15, 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and co-founded the website Wifey.tv<ref name="AfterEllen-Trans-Wifey-2014">{{cite web|last1=Bendix|first1=Trish|title=Jill Soloway on queering television and the web with 'Transparent'|url=http://www.afterellen.com/jill-soloway-on-queering-television-and-the-web-with-transparent/02/2014|website=After Ellen|access-date=August 31, 2014|date=February 18, 2014}}</ref> which is described as, "a curated video network for women"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wifey.tv/faq/|title=wifey {{!}} videos {{!}} woman as subject, not object|website=wifey {{!}} videos {{!}} woman as subject, not object|date=September 17, 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref> that includes content created by and for women. In an interview by ''Forbes'', Soloway discusses the site saying, "I really like when our content appears to contradict itself at first glance. One day we might post something about sexism or the male gaze, then the next day post something that might be seen as precisely too sexy or raunchy, but it comes from a female creator or artist so it’s relevant. We love the conversation and don’t feel as dependent on insisting on a particular point of view."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dinagachman/2013/12/17/how-wifey-tv-plans-to-revolutionize-womens-online-content/#76ce22785399|title=How Wifey.TV Plans To Revolutionize Women's Online Content|last=Gachman|first=Dina|work=Forbes|access-date=April 25, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
Soloway also co-founded the East Side Jews collective,<ref name=JewishWeek-EastSideJews-2013>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national-news/la-model-jewish-future|work=The Jewish Week|title=L.A. As A Model For The Jewish Future – Jewish Funders Network conference highlights efforts to reinvent Jewish life by challenging the status quo|first=Gary|last=Rosenblatt|date=March 19, 2013|access-date=March 19, 2013|archive-date=March 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323015740/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national-news/la-model-jewish-future|url-status=dead}}</ref> which is funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.<ref name=Tablet-LoveFest-ESJ-2013>{{cite news|last1=Karpel|first1=Ari|title=Is This 'the Face of the Future of Judaism' for a New Generation in Los Angeles? TV and film director Jill Soloway has been running a de facto Jewish community. The question is whether it can outlast her success.|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/143453/jill-soloway-future-judaism|access-date=August 31, 2014|work=Tablet Magazine|date=September 4, 2013}}</ref> The collective "brings together 20- and 30-something Jews in Silver Lake and the surrounding neighborhoods of Los Angeles for offbeat, too-cool-for-shul events that tend to be heavy on comedy and light on Jewish ritual."<ref name="JewishWeek-EastSideJews-2013" />
Soloway co-wrote ''The Thanksgiving Paris Manifesto'' with Eileen Myles in 2016,<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://www.advocate.com/television/2016/1/20/eileen-myles-and-jill-soloways-plan-topple-patriarchy|title=Eileen Myles and Jill Soloway's Plan to Topple the Patriarchy|date=January 20, 2016|access-date=March 8, 2017|language=en}}</ref> which is a feminist manifesto about the pornography industry. The manifesto was posted on topplethepatriarchy.com, a domain purchased by Myles and Soloway.<ref name=":3" /> The manifesto opens with, "We shouldn’t be starting with porn but we must. We support the idea of a porn industry and the idea of people making a living photographing and sharing images of sex but we don’t support an industry that exclusively distributes portrayals of almost exclusively male pleasure and climax."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://topplethepatriarchy.com/|title=info@topplethepatriarchy.com|website=info@topplethepatriarchy.com|language=en-US|access-date=April 25, 2018|archive-date=April 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426012132/https://topplethepatriarchy.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Works or publications== * Bright, Susie, Eric Albert, Greta Christina, and Jill Soloway. "Jodi K." (novella) ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57142650 Susie Bright Presents: Three Kinds of Asking for It: Erotic Novellas]'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005; {{ISBN|978-0-743-24550-0}} * Soloway, Jill. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60373540 ''Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story''], New York: Free Press, 2005; {{ISBN|978-0-743-27217-9}} * Soloway, Jill. ''She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy'', Crown Archetype, 2018; {{ISBN| 9781101904749}}
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==External links== * {{Facebook|joeysoloway1}} * {{IMDb name|0813561}} * [https://shewantsitbook.com/ ''She Wants It''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604211446/https://shewantsitbook.com/ |date=June 4, 2020 }} Official Microsite
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