TV writer and director
TV writer and director and the creator of the new Amazon show Transparent
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Jill Soloway
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Jill Soloway's 'Transparent' Brings Trans Identity to TV The Amazon series Transparent depicts a loving but dysfunctional Los Angeles family. In the pilot, the family patriarch announces that he's no longer going to hide his secret identity. Jill Soloway created the series. She was a writer on the HBO series Six Feet Under and she wrote and directed the feature film Afternoon Delight.
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Jill Soloway, "Transparent" In the pilot episode of the Amazon series Transparent , family patriarch Mort Pfefferman, played by Jeffrey Tambor, invites his three grown children to dinner planning to make a big announcement. But his kids, played by Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass and Gaby Hoffman, are not the best listeners.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Jill Soloway’s 'Transparent' Brings Trans Identity to TV The new Amazon series Transparent depicts a loving but dysfunctional Los Angeles family. In the pilot, family patriarch announces that he’s not longer going to hide his secret identity. Jill Soloway created the series. She was a writer on the HBO series Six Feet Under and she wrote and directed the feature film Afternoon Delight.
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