Jill Soloway

Joey Soloway (born Jill Soloway; September 26, 1965) is an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer.

After 30 years, Soloway's parents divorced in 1990.

Soloway has a stepfather named Tommy Madison.

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.

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.

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.

Soloway received three Emmy nominations in 2002, 2003, and 2005 for Outstanding Drama Series.

Soloway's short story, Courteney Cox's Asshole, caught the attention of Alan Ball and led to the job.

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.

Around 2011, Carrie Soloway came out as transgender.

Soloway's elder sibling Faith Soloway is a Boston-based musician and performer, with whom Joey sometimes collaborates.

Both Joey and Faith attended Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago.

Joey Soloway graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a communications arts major.

Soloway's mother was formerly a press aide to Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and was a former communications director for School Superintendent Ruth Love.

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.

Soloway is known for creating, writing, executive producing and directing the Amazon original series Transparent, winning two Emmys for the show; 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.

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.

Joey and Faith Soloway collaborated on Transparent, including serving as co-writers.

Joey was inspired by their parent who came out as a transgender woman.

The show stars Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker as siblings whose parent (played by Jeffrey Tambor) reveals she is going through a.

The pilot for Transparent was picked up by Amazon Studios.

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.

, over 80 transgender people have worked on the show, including two transgender consultants.

Soloway wrote Hoffmann's role on Transparent especially for her after seeing her performance on Louie.

Transparent premiered all ten episodes simultaneously in late September 2014.

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.

In August 2016, Amazon premiered a Soloway-directed pilot of I Love Dick, based on the novel by the same name by Chris Kraus.

It was later picked up for a full season, which premiered on May 12, 2017.

The show wrapped its fourth season in 2017, and concluded with a movie finale in 2019.

In 2020, Soloway announced a name change from Jill to Joey.

Soloway was born in Chicago, Illinois to writer and public relations consultant Elaine Soloway and psychiatrist Carrie Soloway, who grew up in London.