1. Joey Soloway was born on Jill Soloway; September 26,1965 and is an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer.
27 Facts About Joey Soloway
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In 2020, Soloway announced a name change from Jill to Joey.
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Joey Soloway's TV writing career began on shows such as The Oblongs, Nikki, and The Steve Harvey Show.
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Joey Soloway followed those shows by writing for four seasons on the HBO original series Six Feet Under, ultimately serving as co-executive producer.
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Joey Soloway received three Emmy nominations in 2002,2003, and 2005 for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Joey and Faith Soloway collaborated on Transparent, including serving as co-writers.
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Joey Soloway was inspired by their parent who came out as a transgender woman.
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Joey Soloway wrote Hoffmann's role on Transparent especially for her after seeing her performance on Louie.
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Joey 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.
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Joey Soloway's first film was a 13-minute short titled Una Hora Por Favora, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
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In June 2019, Joey Soloway signed on to write, direct and produce the Red Sonja remake.
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Joey Soloway later left the project but remained an executive producer.
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In 2018, Joey Soloway published another book, She Wants It: Desire, Power and Toppling the Patriarchy, with Ebury Press, a division of Penguin Random House.
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In September 2016, Joey Soloway gave a master class on the female gaze at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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The term male gaze was first coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and, just like Mulvey, Joey Soloway gives their own definition of the Female Gaze in three parts.
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Joey Soloway is showing us how it feels to be this girl.
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The female gaze is about people reclaiming ownership over their body, deciding how it can be portrayed and, as Joey Soloway points out, is a "conscious effort to create empathy as a political tool" thus seeking out empathy rather than objectification.
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Joey Soloway is a member of the board of the San Francisco Film Society.
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In 2015, Joey Soloway's show Transparent won a Golden Globe for Best Series - Musical or Comedy, which Joey Soloway dedicated to Leelah Alcorn after her suicide the year prior.
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Later that same year, Joey Soloway won a DGA Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for directing episode 1.08 of the show.
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In 2016, Joey Soloway won another Emmy for directing episode 2.09 of Transparent.
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Also in 2016, Joey Soloway was a finalist for The Advocate's Person of the Year, and was named to Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.
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Joey Soloway was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2022.
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In 2011, Joey Soloway married music supervisor Bruce Gilbert, with whom Joey Soloway had been in a relationship since 2008.
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Joey Soloway is a strong supporter of feminism and co-founded the website Wifey.
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Joey Soloway co-founded the East Side Jews collective, which is funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
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Joey Soloway co-wrote The Thanksgiving Paris Manifesto with Eileen Myles in 2016, which is a feminist manifesto about the pornography industry.