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

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 Date2014-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Celeste

Episode Count17

Vote Count165

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 Date1998-10-07

Charactersd Band at Party

Vote Count7

No Mercy

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is cinema made by women really tougher, more violent? Seeking answers, she talks to great contemporary filmmakers like Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, Alice Diop, Céline Sciamma, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Monika Treut, among others. It becomes obvious that the cinema screen is a space for the projection of real social problems and power relations.

Release Date2026-02-27

Charactersd Herself

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 Date1997-08-11

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count106

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 Date2016-05-11

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count76

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 Date2015-08-02

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count19

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 Date2016-03-08

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Visible: Out on Television

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

Release Date2020-02-14

Charactersd Self

Episode Count5

Vote Count16

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 Date2019-06-28

Charactersd Self

Vote Count41

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 Date2022-06-12

Charactersd Self

Vote Count13

Half the Picture

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

Release Date2018-01-23

Charactersd Self

Vote Count14

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 Date2022-10-21

Charactersd Self

Vote Count31

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 Date2023-02-28

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

We Are Pat

Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a child, filmmaker Ro Haber became obsessed with Pat—a character whose popularity stemmed from making others uncomfortable by defying gender norms. Decades later, and now an out trans filmmaker, Haber still grapples with Pat’s legacy. Thirty-five years after It’s Pat first aired, Haber assembles a group of queer and trans comedians, writers, and even Sweeney herself to revisit the character. Through conversation and critique, they aim not to erase Pat but to reframe them, transforming a symbol of ridicule into one of reflection and empowerment.

Release Date2025-06-08

Charactersd Self

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 Date2001-06-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count63

Vote Count1042

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 Date1996-08-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count25

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 Date2015-06-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

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 co-created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Release Date2017-10-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count910

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 Date2007-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count81

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 Date2009-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count36

Vote Count159

Nikki

Nikki White pursues her dream of being a Las Vegas showgirl, while her husband, Dwight, tries to break into professional wrestling.

Release Date2000-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

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 Date2013-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count229

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 Date2010-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count95

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 Date2001-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count68

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 Date2016-08-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count65

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 Date2016-07-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Baby Blues

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

Release Date2000-07-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

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 Date2015-06-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

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 Date2019-09-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count19

Valencia: The Movie/S

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 Date2013-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Ride

The life of Sally Ride,the first female American astronaut

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Boundaries

Boundaries

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Una Hora Por Favora

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

Release Date2012-01-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1