American screenwriter and director Joey Soloway was BOTD in 1965. Born Jill Soloway in Chicago, Illinois to a middle-class Jewish family, they studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working as a production assistant on the documentary Hoop Dreams. Soloway and their sister Faith began writing and performing plays, leading to writing work on TV shows The Oblongs, Nikki and The Steve Harvey Show. In 2001, Soloway became the first female writer in Alan Ball‘s TV drama series Six Feet Under, remaining with the series for four seasons and becoming a co-executive producer. They later wrote for TV comedies Dirty Sexy Money and Grey’s Anatomy and was a show-runner for The United States of Tara. In 2013, they wrote and directed the feature film Afternoon Delight, winning a directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival. They received widespread acclaim for her TV drama series Transparent, chronicling the unravelling of a middle-class Los Angelean family after their elderly father comes out as trans. Based on Soloway’s own experiences with their transgender parent, the series won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards, and utilised a “transfirmative” action programme in which trans writers and directors were preferentially hired. The show’s (straight, cis-gendered) star Jeffrey Tambor was fired in 2017 after the series’ fourth season, amid allegations that he had sexually harassed trans cast members. Soloway killed off Tambor’s character for the unsatisfying fifth and final season, before (bizarrely) adapting the series into a stage musical. In 2016, they created and co-directed the TV drama series I Love Dick, a stimulating if deeply pretentious adaptation of Chris Kraus’ feminist novel. Soloway was married to Bruce Gilbert, with whom they have two children. Following their separation in 2015, Soloway was in a relationship with trans poet and academic Eileen Myles, the real-life fruition of a plotline from Transparent in which a cis-gendered woman becomes involved with a butch dyke academic. The pair announced their separation in 2016, appearing onstage for an audience Q&A discussing their relationship and new status as a “post couple”. In 2018, Soloway was reported to be dating Hannah Gatsby, following the latter’s rise to fame with her televised comedy special Nanette. Soloway identified variously as non-binary and gender non-conforming before settling on trans, changing their name to Joey in 2020. Their published works include the 2018 book She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy. Soloway lives in Los Angeles, where they co-parent their children. For the first time, SuperGays Headquarters is happy to report that Soloway’s relationship status is unknown.