---
name: "Our Lady J"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yona-speidel"
fi1m_id: "yona-speidel"
imdb_id: "nm3292107"
tmdb_id: 2030013
wikidata_id: "Q15991600"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "22 August 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-22T21:06:36.304601+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."
---

# Our Lady J

## Identity

Our Lady J

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yona-speidel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yona-speidel
- **IMDb ID:** nm3292107
- **TMDB ID:** 2030013
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15991600
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Speidel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15991600, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3292107/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2030013

Writer and producer. Born 22 August 1978 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 22 August 1978, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** Yona Speidel, Lady J
- **Frequently works with:** [Brad Falchuk](https://film.one/person/brad-falchuk.md), [Gwyneth Horder-Payton](https://film.one/person/gwyneth-horder-payton.md), [Lou Eyrich](https://film.one/person/lou-eyrich.md), [Nelson Cragg](https://film.one/person/nelson-cragg.md), [Ryan Murphy](https://film.one/person/ryan-murphy.md), [Silas Howard](https://film.one/person/silas-howard.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (2), 2020s 73 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 79 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Comedy 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Speidel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15991600, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3292107/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2030013

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Transparent*](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*POSE*](https://film.one/tv/pose.md) (78)
- **Netflix:** [*The Boroughs*](https://film.one/tv/the-boroughs.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Yona Speidel is an American writer and producer, also credited as Our Lady J or Lady J. She has written for television series including *Transparent* (2015–2017), *Pose* (2018–2021), *American Horror Story* (2022) and *The Boroughs* (2026), on which she also served as co-executive producer and wrote the seventh episode.

Speidel grew up in a Mennonite farming community in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. She trained as a classical pianist, toured professionally and was the first out trans woman to perform at Carnegie Hall. She was the first out trans writer hired to a television writers’ room and has also directed episodes of *American Horror Story* and *Doctor Odyssey*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, abqjournal.com, laweekly.com, metroweekly.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Boroughs* (2026), Fi1m 73, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-boroughs.md)
- *POSE* (2018), Fi1m 78, Writer, Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/pose.md)
- *Transparent* (2014), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Boroughs* (2026), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-boroughs.md)
- *Doctor Odyssey* (2024), series, Director
- *Fantasy Island* (2021), series, Story
- *American Horror Stories* (2021), series, Writer
- *POSE* (2018), series, as Sherilyn · Producer, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/pose.md)
- *Transparent* (2014), series, as Yorna · Miss Pico-Union, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md)
- *American Horror Story* (2011), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Our Lady J](https://film.one/media/person/22527/gallery-d6f5dc1515ae.jpg) Our Lady J — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Our_Lady_J_at_TDoV_SF_-_2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![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/22527/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/22527/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)
- ![Just four short years ago, "Pose" was a program that executives, studios and networks weren't interested in producing, according to Steven Canals, co-creator, i (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/22527/gallery-205629ff87b1.png) Just four short years ago, "Pose" was a program that executives, studios and networks weren't interested in producing, according to Steven Canals, co-creator, i (2019) — Peabody Awards, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/OurLadyJ.png/1280px-OurLadyJ.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Our Lady J performs at the 2016 Trans Day of Visibility celebration in San Francisco.](https://film.one/media/person/22527/gallery-0c1266bf4ca9.jpg) Our Lady J performs at the 2016 Trans Day of Visibility celebration in San Francisco. — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Our_Lady_J_at_TDoV_SF_-_1.jpg/1280px-Our_Lady_J_at_TDoV_SF_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Our Lady J performs at the 2016 Trans Day of Visibility celebration in San Francisco.](https://film.one/media/person/22527/gallery-58bc78783a76.jpg) Our Lady J performs at the 2016 Trans Day of Visibility celebration in San Francisco. — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Our_Lady_J_at_TDoV_SF_-_2.jpg/1280px-Our_Lady_J_at_TDoV_SF_-_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/yona-speidel