Octavio Solis

Octavio Solis

Playwright, Mother Road

In three seasons at OSF: El Paso Blue, Gibraltar, Don Quixote.

Other plays: Quixote Nuevo, Hole in the Sky, Alicia’s Miracle, Se Llama Cristina, John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Man of the Flesh, Prospect, Santos & Santos, La Posada Mágica.

Other theatres: California Shakespeare Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas Theater Center, Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Shadowlight Productions, Boston Court Theatre, El Teatro Campesino, Campo Santo and Cornerstone Theatre.

Books: The River Plays; Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border. Solis has received the 2019 Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award from the William Inge Theatre Festival, the United States Artists Fellowship for 2011 and the 2104 Pen Center USA Award for Drama. Solis is a Thornton Wilder Fellow for the MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists alum and member of the Dramatists Guild.