Jill Soloway
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Jill Soloway is an American playwright, a feminist and an Emmy-nominated television writer.
Soloway served as writer and co-executive producer on the HBO original series, Six Feet Under which ran from 2001–2005 for five seasons.
Before joining the writing staff of Six Feet Under in 2002, she wrote for The Oblongs, Nikki and The Steve Harvey Show. Since Six Feet Under, she has written on Dirty Sexy Money and Grey's Anatomy.
Soloway has written six episodes for Six Feet Under and co-wrote an episode with producer Craig Wright, who is executive producer of ABC's Dirty Sexy Money. Soloway is now writing on the HBO show Tell Me You Love Me and is developing a one-hour comedy with Lost and Alias producer J. J. Abrams called Boundaries.
In addition to television, she has also co-produced with her sister, Faith Soloway, plays such as The Real Live Brady Bunch and The Miss Vagina Pageant. She also sold a pilot script to HBO called Jewess Jones about a female superhero.
She's also a strong supporter of feminism and has expressed fun feminist views in a rally held by the National Organization for Women. More on her feminist activism can be found at www.sayobject.com. Jill co-founded the organization OBJECT.
She wrote the novella Jodi K., which was published in the collection Three Kinds of Asking For It: Erotic Novellas edited by Susie Bright. Jill's first novel, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story, was released in hardcover in 2005, and then in paperback in 2006.
[edit] Six Feet Under episodes
- Back to the Garden (2002)
- I'll Take You (2002)
- Making Love Work (2003)
- I'm Sorry, I'm Lost (2003)
- Parallel Play (2004)
- The Black Forest, with Craig Wright (2004)
- The Rainbow of Her Reasons, (2005)
