AS Nora Ephron famously noted: 'Everything is copy'. But whether the late journalist, author and screenwriter would herself have had the creative candour to turn her own father's transition from living as a man to living as a woman into a television drama will forever be unknown. For Jill Soloway, writer and director of the award-winning show Transparent, however, there was not a moment's hesitation. "It was about two minutes into my parent coming out to me that I realised it would be a great topic for a show," she admits. For 15 years, Soloway had served as a writer, producer, and eventually a showrunner on dramas including Six Feet Under, Dirty Sexy Money, United States of...
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