Range Media Partners signs ‘transparent’ creator Joey Soloway

EXCLUSIVE: Joey Soloway, the Emmy-winning actress best known for developing, producing, directing and writing the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparenthas signed with Range Media Partners for management.

Inspired by Soloway’s parents coming out in 2011, Transparent follows the lives and personal journeys of members of a Los Angeles family after learning that their parents are trans women. The show was one of the first strong originals to emerge from Amazon, and ran for five seasons between 2014 and 2019. In 2015, it became the first series from Amazon Studios to win major awards, as well as the first show produced by a streaming service to win a Golden Globe for Best Series, as well as eight Emmys from 24 nominations over time, each Globe , three Critics’ Choice Awards, a Peabody, four GLAAD Media Awards and a host of other accolades. Soloway has personally garnered two Emmys for directing, as well as a DGA Award, a PGA Award, two WGA Award nominations, and more.

Soloway has been using lately Transparent as a basis for A transparent musical, which takes the story deeper into family history and the history of transness during Berlin’s Weimar period. Soloway co-wrote the book with MJ Kaufman and hired her sister, Faith Soloway, who wrote all seasons of the show and composed songs for the finale, to write the music and lyrics. The show opens in May at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Soloway made his film debut in 2013 with the drama joy in the afternoonwith Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor and Jane Lynch, winner of the Sundance Directing Award, also co-creator of the Prime Video series i like dick, with Hahn and Kevin Bacon. Other artists on both the script and production fronts include Showtime’s United States of Tara and HBO’s Six feet under.

Soloway also published two memoirs, the first of which Little ladies in shiny trousers – a cross-genre combination memoir and personal essay published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. In 2018, Soloway released their follow-up, She wants it: lust, power and the overthrow of patriarchy, a story of personal transformation that charts her evolution from being a straight, married mother of two to identifying as queer and non-binary. The book was acclaimed by critics and readers, and was also named the New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Soloway co-founded 5050by2020, an artist empowerment network and strategic initiative by Time’s Up, and also launched the Disruptors Fellowship, a five-month program awarded to 10 artists of color who also identify as trans and/or non-binary, disabled and undocumented and/or previously undocumented.

The creative is currently developing several new projects, including a travel documentary series, The Godissey, which follows her quest around the world to discover Amtlai, the mother of Abraham, previously erased from history. They will continue to be represented by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Range Media Partners is a management and production company founded in 2020 that represents clients in the film, television, music, literature, technology and activism sectors. Other recent additions include actor and filmmaker Zach Braff (a good person), the new Hellboy Jack Kesy (from Millennium’s The hunchback man), Orange is the new black Creator Jenji Kohan, TikTok Star Monet McMichael, At midnightt Writer and producer Giovanni M. Porta, PerryMason And gloriol Director Jessica Lowrey, Oscar winner, producer and director Halle Berry and director Rachel Lambert, starring Daisy Ridley Sometimes I think about dying Sundance opened in 2023.