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Article Evaluation: /articleevaluation

Rough draft of article changes for Jill Soloway.

What is missing?
Many filmmakers have a "critical reception" section on their Wikipedia. However, Soloway's is very limited. There are many articles that I've found online and in academic journal databases that discuss the pros and cons of Soloways work, particularly with Transparent. There is a "Themes" section on Soloway's page, but the discussion is very limited and lacks scholarly sources.

Soloway's personal life and activism are also lacking on their page. The page mentions Soloway's East Side Jews collective, but does not describe what it is or how Soloway involves themselves in the collective.

Sections I'm Editing:
Television, Film, Themes, and Activism

* Edits to article sections are written in bold.

Television (Original)
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.

Six Feet Under episodes[edit] 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. Soloway created the pilot Transparent for Amazon.com, which became available for streaming and download on February 6, 2014, and was part of Amazon's second pilot season. They were inspired by their parent who came out as transgender. Soloway with their sister, Faith Soloway, who serves as a co-writer on Transparent. The show stars Gaby Hoffman, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker as siblings whose parent (played by Jeffrey Tambor) reveals she is going through a significant life transition. The pilot for Transparent was picked up by Amazon Studios.
 * "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" (2004), with Craig Wright
 * "The Rainbow of Her Reasons" (2005)

As part of the making of the show, Soloway enacted a "transfirmative action program", whereby transgender applicants were hired in preference to nontransgender ones. As of August 2014, over eighty transgender people have worked on the show, including two transgender consultants. All the bathrooms on set are gender-neutral.

Soloway wrote Gaby Hoffmann's role on Transparent especially for Hoffmann after seeing her performance on Louie. Transparent premiered all ten episodes simultaneously in late September 2014. The show wrapped its fourth season in 2017, and Amazon has renewed it for a fifth season to be released in 2018.

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.

Television (Edited)
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.

Transparent
Soloway created the pilot Transparent for Amazon.com, which became available for streaming and download on February 6, 2014, and was part of Amazon's second pilot season. They were inspired by their parent who came out as transgender. Soloway  's sister, Faith Soloway, serves as a co-writer on Transparent. The show stars Gaby Hoffman, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker as siblings whose parent (played by Jeffrey Tambor) reveals she is going through a significant life transition. The pilot for Transparent was picked up by Amazon Studios.

Soloway received two Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2016 for Transparent and has received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.

As part of the making of the show, Soloway enacted a "transfirmative action program", whereby transgender applicants were hired in preference to nontransgender ones. As of August 2014, over eighty transgender people have worked on the show, including two transgender consultants. All the bathrooms on set are gender-neutral.

Soloway wrote Gaby Hoffmann's role on Transparent especially for Hoffmann after seeing her performance on Louie. Transparent premiered all ten episodes simultaneously in late September 2014. The show wrapped its fourth season in 2017, and Amazon has renewed it for a fifth season to be released in 2018.

Film (Original)
Soloway has written and directed two films that have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: Una Hora Por Favora (2012) and Afternoon Delight (2013),for which they won the Directing Award.

Afternoon Delight played at national and international film festivals and was nominated for multiple awards, including a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance for Kathryn Hahn, and a Spirit Award for First Feature.

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Film (Edited)
'Soloway's first film was a 13-minute short called Una Hora Por Favora'', which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The film stars Michaela Watkins and Wilmer Valderrama. The film is about a woman who hires a day laborer to do some handy work, but their relationship soon goes beyond professional.'''

Afternoon Delight (2013) was Soloway's feature film debut at Sundance, for which they won the Directing Award. The film follows Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), who is struggling to rekindle her relationship with her husband (Josh Radnor), and ultimately befriends a stripper played by Juno Temple. Afternoon Delight played at national and international film festivals and was nominated for multiple awards, including a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance for Kathryn Hahn, and a Spirit Award for First Feature.

Themes (Original)
Soloway has said that they feel that they have always been writing similar themes, what they call "The Heroine's Journey," which is about "repairing the divided feminine: the wife and the other woman confronting each other--mom, stripper. That I think women's journeys are really about repairing these sort of divided parts of ourselves. And this divide in our culture that I think is responsible for so much that is a problem in our culture."

EDIT:

'''Jewish religion and culture, queer sexuality and gender are major themes in Soloway's work. Recurring themes in Transparent are gender expression and familial bonds.'''

Soloway has said that they feel that they have always been writing similar themes, what they call "The Heroine's Journey," which is about "repairing the divided feminine: the wife and the other woman confronting each other--mom, stripper. That I think women's journeys are really about repairing these sort of divided parts of ourselves. And this divide in our culture that I think is responsible for so much that is a problem in our culture."

Prof. Schreiber feedback
You have some excellent ideas here, Lindsay. I would consider discussing the films in more depth and perhaps tying the discussion of the themes therein back to their work in television? Has Soloway discussed the films in interviews? You might add some quotes in that section.MJSProf (talk) 17:37, 15 April 2018 (UTC)