Playwright, Quixote Nuevo
Octavio Solis is a playwright and director whose plays—Scene with Cranes, Quixote Nuevo, Mother Road, Man of the Flesh, Scrappers, La Posada Mágica, Cloudlands (a musical co-written with Adam Gwon), Hole in the Sky, Alicia’s Miracle, Se Llama Cristina, John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Lydia, June in a Box, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, Shiner, The Seven Visions of Encarnación, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, and Prospect—have been mounted across the country at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Arena Stage, and many other theatres. Among his awards are the Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre award from the William Inge Center for the Arts, the Imagen Award for his consultancy on Disney-Pixar’s Coco, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Texas State University Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, the Pen Center Literary Award for Drama, a United States Artists Fellowship, and the National Latino Playwriting Award. His book Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border was chosen by the National Reading Group Month’s Committee for the Great Group Reads Selections.