Joey Soloway

Biography

Soloway is an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer. Soloway won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for directing and writing the film Afternoon Delight. They are also known for their work on Six Feet Under and for creating, writing, executive producing and directing the Amazon original series Transparent, for which they won two Emmys.

Soloway began their TV writing career on shows such as The Oblongs, Nikki and The Steve Harvey Show. They followed those shows by writing for four seasons on the HBO original series Six Feet Under, ultimately serving as co-executive producer. Six Feet Under ran for five seasons from 2001 to 2005. They received 3 Emmy nominations in 2002, 2003 and 2005 for Outstanding Drama Series.

Soloway later wrote episodes of Dirty Sexy Money, Grey’s Anatomy, and Tell Me You Love Me and was executive producer/showrunner for the second season of Showtime’s United States of Tara, created by Diablo Cody, as well as HBO’s How to Make it in America, created by Ian Edelman.

In August 2016, Amazon premiered a Soloway-directed pilot of I Love Dick, based on the novel by the same name by Chris Kraus. It was later picked up for a full season, which premiered on May 12, 2017.

In 2011, Soloway married music supervisor Bruce Gilbert, with whom Soloway had been in a relationship since 2008. They have a son named Felix Soloway Gilbert. Soloway’s older son, Isaac, is from a prior relationship with artist John Strozier. In 2015, Soloway announced being in the process of separating from Gilbert, and that Soloway was in a relationship with poet Eileen Myles, whom Soloway met through Transparent; their romantic relationship has since ended.

In 2020, Soloway announced they had changed their name to Joey to better embrace their non-binary-self.