Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 158 of Awards Chatter, The Hollywood Reporters Awards

podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most

prolific and acclaimed content creators working in television today. The primary force behind two funny, smart, and edgy

comedy series currently streaming on Amazon, transparent and I Love Dick, and the winner for the former of the last two best director of a comedy series

Emmys Jill Soloway. The 51 year old who recently came out as gender non-binary and

prefer singular they pronouns has been working in the

business for decades. For most of that time they toiled more or less contentedly

under the radar as a TV writer on programs like the Steve Harvey show, Six Feet Under, Gray's Anatomy and United States of Tara.

But a few years ago, partly by their choice and partly out of necessity, they began working for themselves.

First on a 2011 short, Unaora Porfavore that got into Sundance,

then on a 2012 feature, Afternoon Delight, that also got into Sundance and was awarded the FEST's Best Director Prize.

And then on Transparent, a show about an LA-area family that is rocked when the 70-something person, long known to the adult

children as their father, comes out as transgender. As happened with the person

Soloway grew up knowing as her father but now calls Ma Pa or Parent.

Salahue not only created Transparent but serves as its executive producer with Andrea

Spurling and as a frequent writer and director of its episodes.

The first two seasons of the show received Best Comedy Series Emmy nominations and the third season dropped

last September 23rd and is Emmy eligible right now.

In the middle of its run, Soloway also co-created with Sarah Gubbins,

I Love Dick, a show about a female filmmaker who becomes infatuated with the artist sponsoring

her husband's research fellowship.

Soloway is an executive producer of the show, with Gubbins and others, and directed the first and fifth episodes of its first season, which dropped on May 12th.

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