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OCTAVIO SOLIS |
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Nationality: USA-Mexican Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd |
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 Magica, El Otro, Dreamlandia, The 7 Visions of Encarnacion, Bethlehem, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, Gibraltar, Lethe, and Marfa Lights have been mounted at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the New York Summer Play Festival, the Dallas Theater Center, the Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shadowlight in San Francisco, the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia, Latino Chicago Theatre Company, La Compania de Albuquerque, Teatro Vista in Chicago, El Teatro Campesino, the Undermain Theatre in Dallas, Thick Description, Campo Santo, the Imua Theatre Company in New York, and Cornerstone Theatre. His collaborative works include Burning Dreams, cowritten with Julie Hebert and Gina Leishman; Shiner, written with Erik Ehn, and Great Highway, written with Wendy Weiner. Solis has received an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, a production grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and the National Latino Playwriting Award for 2003. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG and the Pew Charitable Trust for Gibraltar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His new anthology, Plays By Octavio Solis is issued by Broadway Play Publishing. He has also completed Prospect, an independent feature film which he wrote and directed. Solis is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a New Dramatists alum.
Plays by Octavio Solis
Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Campo Santo at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67994 | |||
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Genre: | comic musical Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Ventriloquist's dummy | |||||
Notes: | Music composed by Beth Custer. All the characters, except for Stryker, play Pancho and Lucy, making their quick change behind the bar or offstage. The actor playing Orville plays Eight-Ball Erm, and also provides the voice for Tiny the dummy. Subtle changes inside the El Chisme bar indicate changes to different bars and locations. If possible, the band should remain on-stage at all times. | |||||
Synopsis: | A rollicking ribald romp through the below-radar bar circuit of San Francisco's Mission District. Matt Stryker, reporter for the Golden Gate Gazette, does some investigative reporting inside the El Chisme Bar, where legendary bandits Pancho Pistolas and Lucy One-Eye are due to strike next. Soon the local barflies open up their hearts to him, relating their own encounters with the notorious pair, each one depicting unique versions of the two lover gunsters. Fun and full of song and nastiness. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bethlehem | ||
| 1st Produced: | Campo Santo at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | 10 Jul 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69822-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123359 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award | |||||
| A dark work about self-knowledge and the nature of evil, where the devil lives in a godless world. Lee, accompanied by his photographer girlfriend Dru, arrives in El Paso to interview Mateo, (a convicted murderer recently released), over a period of a few days. During the intense interview process, Lee so empathizes with his subjects life in the past that he merges his own past with it in order to reenact it. The bloody conclusion draws upon the dangers of defining the nature of evil. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dreamlandia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 May 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | SF Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69799-9 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66351 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of their Big D Festival of the Unexpected. Also produced in 1997 under the title Suenos Suenos Son | |||||
| A supernatural look at drugs and border culture on the Rio Grande | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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El Otro | ||
| 1st Produced: | Thick Description | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Latino Plays From South Coast Repertory (Broadway Play Publishing), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48630 | |||
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Genre: | Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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El Paso Blue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Intersection for the Arts | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays by Octavio Solis, Broadway Publishing, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48632 | |||
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Genre: | comic love fable Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Michael "Hawkeye" Herman | |||||
Synopsis: | A wild tale of lust and revenge in El Paso. Al leaves his wife in the care of his father as he goes to prison, but soon discovers that she has fallen in love with him. A manhunt ensues. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gibraltar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR, USA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67993 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2nd production: Thick Description in San Francisco, subsequently transferred to San Jose Stage (November-February 2006-2007) | |||||
Synopsis: | In Gibraltar, chance brings together Palo, a traveler searching for his runaway wife, and Amy, a widow whose husband disappeared in a boating accident. Their story is just one in a study of love's bargains, woven together through the landscape of memory. (San Jose Stage composite description) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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La Posada Magica | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Coast Repertory | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays from South Coast Repertory vol. 2 (Broadway Play Publishing), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48631 | |||
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Genre: | christmas musical Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Marcos Loya | |||||
Synopsis: | Gracie, young girl with little cause to celebrate Christmas, joins a traditional Posada on their march toward Bethlehem | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lydia | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69816-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95698 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | nominated for Best New American Play for 2008 by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Foundation and the ATCA (American Theatre Critics Association) | |||||
| A 1970s Mexican immigrant family is mired in grief, rage and guilt over a daughter's debilitating accident on the eve of her quinceanera. When the undocumented Lydia arrives in El Paso from Mexico to work as a maid for the family, her nearly miraculous bond with the brain-damaged girl elates, then angers, and finally threatens to destroy the troubled family-and Lydia herself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Of The Flesh | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Coast Repertory | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays from the South Coast Rep", Broadway Play Publishing, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32797 | |||
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Genre: | Myth Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Re-imagines the DON Juan legend in the terms of contemporary Chicano culture. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marfa Lights | ||
| 1st Produced: | West Texas State A&M University | 2006 | ||||
Company: | West Texas State A&M University Theatre Department | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67995 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also produced at St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, California. November 2006 | |||||
Synopsis: | Jorge undergoes a horrific hazing at the hands of his frat brothers and is abandoned near-naked, hog-tied and blind-folded in the stark cold West Texas desert. But when night falls, and the strange Marfa Lights dance around him, a mysterious girl named Meiken finds him, and mistaking him for an angel, takes him though a series of ordeals in preparation for a long-sought miracle. Meanwhile, the other boys and one of their girlfriends feel a nagging need to "finish the job" and begin their hunt for him. Only one pledge brother, Sonny, resolves, with the help of a foul-mouthed Goth girl stranded along the road, to save him before they can do any more damage. Thus begins a magical night of revelations and transformations among the haunted plains of Texas. | |||||
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Pastures of Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123360 | |||
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Quixote | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123361 | |||
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Santos & Santos | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994-1995 Season | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - November, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32798 | |||
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Genre: | crime epic Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Tomas returns to El Paso to find his attorney brothers are deeply in bed with narcotics smuggling. He is torn between honoring the code of his Latino family and the code of American justice. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage - Kogod Cradle, 1101 Sixth Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024 >>> | Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | California Shakespeare, Ca | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111821 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage will feature full length presentations and readings from the seven inaugural selections of the National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Program. | |||||
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