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    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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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 7, 2014 • 1 min read

    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. We talk to her about her new project.

    Actor Jeffrey Tambor and Writer/Director Jill Soloway on the set of Transparent

    Credit: Gregory Zabilski

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Jill Soloway

      TV writer and director

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Waze, Water Wasters, and Jill Soloway on 'Transparent'
    1. 0:00The Water Wasters
    2. 9:22I.C.E. Agents in L.A. County Jails
    3. 15:19Ferguson Protests Continue, Two Months after Teen’s Death
    4. 26:11Jill Soloway’s 'Transparent' Brings Trans Identity to TVYou’re reading this
    5. 41:28I Want You To Show Me the Waze
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