Octavio Solis (born 1958) is an American playwright and director[1] whose plays have been produced at theaters and small companies across the United States.

Born in El Paso, Texas, to Mexican parents,[2] Solis started his career in theater by joining his high school, Riverside High School's (El Paso, TX) theater group when he was fourteen.

[4] Solis uses his experiences in life to help create and shape his plays, often drawing directly from his time in El Paso, where he states that he was able to see both the first-world and the third-world from his backyard.

[2] In his play Lydia, which focuses on a working-class Mexican-American family and an undocumented maid who arrives in the broken home, he draws upon his own experiences as a Latino living only a mile from the Rio Grande.

[7] [7] South Coast Repertory, CAThe Magic Theatre, CAThe San Diego Repertory, CALatino Chicago Theatre CompanyLong Beach Playhouse, CA Los Medanos College,Pittsburg, CA24th Street Theater, San Antonio, TX Oct.-Nov. 2014Oct.