Octavio Solis is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. His works Hole in the Sky, Quixote Nuevo, Alicia's Miracle, Se Llama Christina (an NNPN Rolling World Premiere), John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, and La Posada Mágica have been mounted at INTAR, Cara Mia Theatre Company, the Theatre @ Boston Court, Kitchen Dog Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Dallas Theater Center, the Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shadowlight Productions, Latino Chicago Theatre Company, New York Summer Play Festival, Teatro Vista, El Teatro Campesino, Undermain Theatre, Thick Description, Campo Santo, Imua Theatre Company, and Cornerstone Theatre. His collaborative works include Cloudlands, with Music by Adam Gwon, Burning Dreams, cowritten with Julie Hebert and Gina Leishman and Shiner, written with Erik Ehn. Solis has received an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship, the United States Artists Fellowship for 20012, the 2014 Pen Literary Award for Drama for "Se Llama Cristina", the 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Texas State Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, the the 2018 Imagen Award for his consulting work on "Coco", and the 2019 Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award from the William Inge Theatre Festival. Solis is a Thornton Wilder Fellow for the MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists alum and member of the Dramatists Guild. His new book, Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border is published by City Lights Books. His newest play Mother Road premieres at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in March 2019.