--- name: "Joey Soloway" canonical: "https://film.one/person/joey-soloway" fi1m_id: "joey-soloway" imdb_id: "nm0813561" tmdb_id: 182009 wikidata_id: "Q771690" roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"] born: "26 September 1965" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "writer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T17:25:57.960638+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Joey Soloway ## Identity Joey Soloway - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joey-soloway - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** joey-soloway - **IMDb ID:** nm0813561 - **TMDB ID:** 182009 - **Wikidata ID:** Q771690 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Soloway, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q771690, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182009 Writer and producer. Born 26 September 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director - **Born:** 26 September 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA - **Active:** 2001–2014 - **Also known as:** Jill Soloway - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 writing - **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 2 Emmys (2 won) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Soloway, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q771690, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182009 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Six Feet Under*](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) (86) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Transparent*](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Joey Soloway > Joey Soloway finds the comedy in families whose members expect understanding without offering much back. We value the close, untidy scenes most; the work grows less persuasive when it starts telling us what to think. In *Transparent* (2014), the handheld camera keeps edging towards the person with something to conceal. Daylight filters through the blinds of a house the Pfeffermans all want and none of them properly looks after. Their parent, Maura, is trying to tell her grown children that she is a woman, while they remain busy with themselves. We were moved by her efforts to be heard, because Jeffrey Tambor's careful performance makes each failure to listen hurt. Soloway's series earns our recommendation, though its children can be exhausting company. The writing job on *Six Feet Under* (2001), which Soloway joined in 2002, provides a useful comparison. Under showrunner Alan Ball, that programme also made room for difficult relatives, with comedy that took grief seriously. Soloway's contribution was as a writer, and we would not credit them alone with the show's sharpness or blame them for its stretches of brooding. Writing and directing the debut feature *Afternoon Delight* (2013) marked a move towards greater control of the work. With *Transparent*, as creator, writer and director, Soloway could set the terms of a whole series. Those terms are clearest in the way people talk over one another. Writers including Faith Soloway and Bridget Bedard keep the conversations unfinished, so that a family can be sharing a room without much being heard. Soloway directs several episodes and establishes the close, restless visual style; Andrea Arnold, So Yong Kim, Sarah Gavron and Marielle Heller also direct episodes. The intimacy works because the camera pays attention to the selfishness without requiring us to enjoy it. The risk is spending so long with these people that irritation begins to outweigh curiosity. *I Love Dick* (2016), which Soloway co-created and directed, takes the interest in desire into questions of art and power. It also makes the weakness clear: Soloway can become too eager to teach. We prefer the untidy exchanges of *Transparent*, where people keep exposing more of themselves than they intend. Start there, and leave a little time between visits to the Pfeffermans. ## Biography Joey Soloway, also credited as Jill Soloway, is an American writer, director, producer and showrunner. Born on 26 September 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, Soloway graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began their career in Chicago theatre, co-creating works such as The Real Live Brady Bunch with their sibling Faith Soloway. Soloway wrote seven episodes of the HBO series *Six Feet Under* (2001–2005) and served as co-executive producer. They created, wrote and directed the Amazon series *Transparent* (2014–2019), for which they won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and wrote and directed the feature film *Afternoon Delight* (2013), which received the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Other credits include writing on *United States of Tara* (2009) and *How to Make It in America* (2010), and creating *I Love Dick* (2016). Soloway identifies as non-binary and gender non-conforming, and uses they/them pronouns. In 2020 they announced a name change from Jill to Joey. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tvmaze.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) - *Transparent* (2014), Fi1m 82, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md) ### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these - *Six Feet Under* (2001), Fi1m 86, Writer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) ## Complete filmography (21) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Transparent: Musicale Finale* (2019), Executive Producer, Director, Writer - *Professor Marston and the Wonder Women* (2017), Executive Producer - *I Love Dick* (2016), series, Executive Producer, Director - *The Thing About Us* (2016), Executive Producer - *How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come* (2015), Director - *This Is Me* (2015), series, Executive Producer - *Transparent* (2014), series, as Celeste · Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md) - *Afternoon Delight* (2013), Writer, Director - *Valencia: The Movie/S* (2013), Director - *Una Hora Por Favora* (2012), Director, Writer - *How to Make It in America* (2010), series, Writer - *United States of Tara* (2009), series, Producer, Writer - *Dirty Sexy Money* (2007), series, Writer - *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, Writer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) - *The Oblongs* (2001), series, Writer - *Nikki* (2000), series, Writer, Teleplay - *Baby Blues* (2000), series, Writer, Story - *The Thin Pink Line* (1998), as Band at Party - *The Steve Harvey Show* (1996), series, Writer - *Boundaries*, series, Creator - *Ride*, Director ## Gallery - ![This photo includes the cast and crew of "Transparent," including Jay Duplass, Our Lady J, Ethan Kuperberg, Joe Lewis, Alexandra Billings, Ali Liebegott and Jil (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61403/gallery-f2ea7559fa5c.jpg) This photo includes the cast and crew of "Transparent," including Jay Duplass, Our Lady J, Ethan Kuperberg, Joe Lewis, Alexandra Billings, Ali Liebegott and Jil (2016) — (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, May 21, 2016), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Ali_Liebegott%2C_Jay_Duplass%2C_Our_Lady_J%2C_Ethan_Kuperberg%2C_Joe_Lewis%2C_Alexandra_Billings_and_Jill_Soloway_at_the_75th_Annual_Peabody_Awards_for_Transparent.jpg/1280px-Ali_Liebegott%2C_Jay_Duplass%2C_Our_Lady_J%2C_Ethan_Kuperberg%2C_Joe_Lewis%2C_Alexandra_Billings_and_Jill_Soloway_at_the_75th_Annual_Peabody_Awards_for_Transparent.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![This photo includes the cast and crew of "Transparent," including Jay Duplass, Our Lady J, Ethan Kuperberg, Joe Lewis, Alexandra Billings, Ali Liebegott and Jil (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61403/gallery-3127eb315d88.jpg) This photo includes the cast and crew of "Transparent," including Jay Duplass, Our Lady J, Ethan Kuperberg, Joe Lewis, Alexandra Billings, Ali Liebegott and Jil (2016) — (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, May 21, 2016), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Ali_Liebegott_at_the_75th_Annual_Peabody_Awards_for_Transparent_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Joey Soloway](https://film.one/media/person/61403/gallery-38ceafaf3af6.jpg) Joey Soloway — Tblackburnla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Soloway_portrait.jpg/1280px-Soloway_portrait.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Photo of Joey Soloway, director/writer/feminist (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/61403/gallery-ee9955bcf7df.jpg) Photo of Joey Soloway, director/writer/feminist (2013) — SolowayWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Solowaydirectorsphotocrop1.jpg/1280px-Solowaydirectorsphotocrop1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![This photo includes the cast and crew of "Transparent," including Jay Duplass, Our Lady J, Ethan Kuperberg, Joe Lewis, Alexandra Billings, Ali Liebegott and Jil (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61403/gallery-e7298f634c67.jpg) This photo includes the cast and crew of "Transparent," including Jay Duplass, Our Lady J, Ethan Kuperberg, Joe Lewis, Alexandra Billings, Ali Liebegott and Jil (2016) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Transparent_%2826954544344%29.jpg/1280px-Transparent_%2826954544344%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Primetime Emmy Awards — 2 won - 2016: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (won), for *Transparent* - 2015: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (won), for *Transparent* ### Other awards — 1 won - Lucy Award 2015: Lucy Award (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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