faith soloway born march 28 1964 is an american folkrock musician comedic performer and creator of several folkrock musicals based in the boston area she studied theater at indiana university and performed improv comedy regularly along with leaving school to tour with second city she spent three years as music director for second city which led to the creation of soloways first original musical the real life brady bunch the show which premiered in 1990 was a collaboration with her sister jill soloway and it toured across the country both soloway sisters moved to hollywood briefly to produce television shows but faith soloway decided she was not interested in television work and in 1994 moved to cambridge massachusetts to pursue a songwriting careerafter performing at open mike nights as a solo musician soloway began producing a series of rock operas that were performed at club passim she started with the minimalist the principal and the potter which was followed by miss folk america which featured what became one of soloways signature songs queer in revere and debbie does falcon ridge both of which parodied the folk scene in 2000 soloway produced miss folk america at the somerville theater a larger venue this was followed by jesus has two mommies the title refers to the controversial childrens book heather has two mommies which featured such notable boston folk musicians as catie curtis and jennifer kimballsoloway also works at charles river creative arts program in dover massachusetts in the summer in the theater and music departments for the camp she has written the musicals harrie norbert beany is action man and hamletta with tom evans soloways lone solo album training wheels features her song lesbo song which is at once a statement of her sexuality and a tweaking of the earnest humorless stereotype of womens music her song sisters boyfriend was featured on the respond compilation a benefit for domestic violence causes she continues to perform with her band the faith soloway crisissoloways expartner writer harlyn aizley wrote a book entitled buying dad about the couples efforts to conceive a child via artificial insemination their daughter betsy was born in 2002 soloway wrote an essay betsy loves bobbies that will appear in a forthcoming anthology edited by aizley the other mother tales from the lesbian homefront or nonbiological mothers tell all after the couple separated soloway started work on a new show journey to the self one womans self journey her new partner carol rosenthal is very active in hollywood