Joey Soloway

Joey Soloway (born September 26, 1965) 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 Emmys for the show; directing and writing the film "Afternoon Delight" (2013), 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. On June 26, 2020, Soloway announced that they had changed their first name to Joey.

Works

2.0

Sex on Screen

Explores the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood, the toll on those involved in filming them, and the impact such images have on women and girls in the real world. The film features candid interviews with actors and creators, including Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade and David Simon, and highlights the voices of women who have spoken out against abusive behaviour on set and were punished for it.

Release Date: 2023-02-28

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

5.8

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

Release Date: 2022-10-21

Character: Self

Vote Count: 26

6.5

Body Parts

An eye-opening investigation into the making of Hollywood sex scenes, shedding light on the real-life experiences behind classic scenes of cinema and tracing the legacy of exploitation of women in the entertainment industry.

Release Date: 2022-06-12

Character: Self

Vote Count: 11

Visible: Out on Television
7.1

Visible: Out on Television

Explore the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of TV in this five-part docuseries. Combining archival footage with new interviews, it looks at homophobia, invisibility, the evolution of LGBTQ characters, and coming out in the TV industry.

Release Date: 2020-02-14

Character: Self

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 13

6.7

Transparent: Musicale Finale

When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.

Release Date: 2019-09-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 19

6.2

This Changes Everything

An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.

Release Date: 2019-06-28

Character: Self

Vote Count: 39

5.9

Half the Picture

At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors talk about their art, lives and careers.

Release Date: 2018-01-23

Character: Self

Vote Count: 11

7.2

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Release Date: 2017-10-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 879

I Love Dick
6.2

I Love Dick

Adapted from the lauded feminist novel and set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas, this is the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, the series charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a reluctant messiah.

Release Date: 2016-08-19

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 59

The Thing About Us

How do you remain friends with someone you used to love? Maybe a desert road trip together is not the best place to start.

Release Date: 2016-07-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Chelsea
5.0

Chelsea

It's not her first talk show, but it is a first of its kind. Ideas, people and places that fascinate her, all in her unique style.

Release Date: 2016-05-11

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 68

3.3

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.

Release Date: 2016-03-08

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date: 2015-08-02

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 17

1.0

How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come

Mel learns how to take down the patriarchy and also the number one way to put women on top.

Release Date: 2015-06-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

This Is Me
10.0

This Is Me

THIS IS ME docu-series is an anthology of five 3-5 minute-long TRANSPARENT-inspired documentaries by five different trans and gender-nonconforming filmmakers. Personal essays, direct actions, explainers - each filmmaker has crafted a segment that explores a theme in TRANSPARENT.

Release Date: 2015-06-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 1

Transparent
6.4

Transparent

An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

Release Date: 2014-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Celeste

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 155

5.8

Afternoon Delight

Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom, frustrated with the responsibilities of her son's preschool, a lacklustre sex life and a career that's gone kaput. One night, intent on spicing up their marriage, she visits an LA strip club with her husband, where she meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.

Release Date: 2013-08-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 218

0.5

Valencia

Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told through the experiences of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.

Release Date: 2013-06-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

6.0

Una Hora Por Favora

A woman hires a day laborer for an hour and gets more than she bargained for.

Release Date: 2012-01-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Ride

The life of Sally Ride,the first female American astronaut

Department: Directing

Job: Director

How to Make It in America
7.3

How to Make It in America

Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition. With the help of Cam's cousin Rene, who is trying to market his own high-energy drink, and their well-connected friend Domingo, the burgeoning entrepreneurs set out to make it big, encountering obstacles along the way that will require all their ingenuity to overcome.

Release Date: 2010-02-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 82

United States of Tara
7.1

United States of Tara

Tara's multiple personalities include "T" the wild-child teenager, "Buck" the rough and tumble biker dude, and "Alice" the type-A homemaker. But with a family that loves her just the way she is, Tara never gives up hope that someday she can just be herself.

Release Date: 2009-01-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 146

Dirty Sexy Money
6.2

Dirty Sexy Money

The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five adult children from the prying eyes of the world. As the Darlings' reluctant personal lawyer, Nick George has barely begun to discover the legal - and illegal - needs of the family. Blackmail threats. Questionable deals. Illegitimate children. Illicit affairs. It will take every trick he can think of to keep them out of the tabloids - and out of jail. But if he can solve his father's mysterious death, it might be worth the hassle. Enter a seductive world of glamorous people, exclusive parties and delicious intrigue.

Release Date: 2007-09-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 77

Six Feet Under
8.1

Six Feet Under

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

Release Date: 2001-06-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 63

Vote Count: 971

The Oblongs
7.3

The Oblongs

The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp has left them with the occasional missing limb or mysterious growth, but through it all, this close-knit family sticks together.Sometimes literally.

Release Date: 2001-04-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 61

Baby Blues
6.6

Baby Blues

An animated television series based on the Baby Blues comic strip.

Release Date: 2000-07-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 7

5.7

The Thin Pink Line

A film crew in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, a quirky and potentially gay prisoner convicted of murdering his high school show choir teacher. As filming of the documentary progresses, evidence increases that Chauncey might be guilty after all.

Release Date: 1998-10-07

Character: Band at Party

Vote Count: 5

The Steve Harvey Show
6.9

The Steve Harvey Show

Down on his luck and out of money, former R&B star Steve Hightower lands a music teacher gig at an inner-city Chicago school. Showing who's in charge with his unorthodox approach, Steve discovers a new groove at Washington High School.

Release Date: 1996-08-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 23

Boundaries

Boundaries

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

The View
4.5

The View

ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.

Release Date: 1997-08-11

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 96

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