Octavio Solis is a playwright and director. His produced works include Alicia’s Miracle (Tides Theatre), Se Llama Cristina (Magic Theatre), Cloudlands, La Posada Mágica, Man of the Flesh, and Scrappers (South Coast Repertory), an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven (California Shakespeare Theater), Ghosts of the River and The Seven Visions of Encarnación (Shadowlight Productions), Quixote and Gibraltar (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Lydia (Yale Repertory), Lethe (Cornerstone Theatre), Dreamlandia (Dallas Theater), El Otro and Santos & Santos (Thick Description), Prospect (El Teatro Campesino), and June in a Box, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, Bethlehem, El Paso Blue, and Impatiens (Intersection for the Arts).

Solis is considered by many to be one of the most prominent Latino playwrights in America, and has received Roger L. Stevens, Will Glickman Playwright, and National Latino Playwriting Awards for works that both draw on and transcend the Mexican-American experience.