Octavio Solis Biography

OCTAVIO SOLIS is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. His works Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, La Posada Mágica, El Otro and Dreamlandia have been mounted at theatres nationwide. Burning Dreams, co-written with Julie Hebert and Gina Leishman, was produced by San Diego Repertory, and his collaborative project with Erik Ehn, Shiner, was mounted by Undermain Theatre in Dallas. His most recent project was The Seven Visions of Encarnacion written for Shadowlight Theatre Company, a shadow puppet work performed in San Francisco. Solis has received an NEA Playwriting Fellowship, two playwriting grants from The Kennedy Center, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis and the 2000-2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG. He is the recipient of a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust for a new project with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Solis is a member of the Dramatists Guild and New Dramatists.