September 26: Happy Birthday Jill Soloway

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Two-time Emmy winner Jill Soloway, known as a television producer, director and writer, and also as a playwright, novelist and comedian, is turning 52 today. After studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Soloway began a television career as writer for series like Baby Blues and Nikki. They then moved on to work as a writer and executive producer for HBO’s Six Feet Under (Soloway is on record as preferring to be referred to by the “singular they” pronoun).

Soloway has written and directed two films, the short Una Hora Por Favora and the feature Afternoon Delight, winning the Directing Award at Sundance for the latter. They also wrote the novella Jodi K and co-created the Amazon series I Love Dick. However, Soloway is best known as the creator of another Amazon web series, Transparent, which just had its fourth season premiere. They have won two Emmys for directing on Transparent, which has received eight Emmys total in its first three seasons and is the first Amazon series to win a major award.