Bernardo Solano
Chair, Professor, Theatre and New Dance, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
About Me
A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Mr. Solano is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, two Fulbright Awards, McKnight Fellowship, NEA and Rockefeller grants, as well as an AT&T OnStage and two Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest grants.
Mr. Solano is an associate artist of Cornerstone Theater, and has received three Fulbright Awards, the most recent to teach and direct in Bogota, Colombia.
Productions
- NUEVO CALIFORNIA at San Diego Repertory Theatre (winner of San Diego Critics Circle’s Outstanding New Play of 2000) and Connecticut Repertory Theatre (2017)
- THE UPPER ROOM (act two of CROSSINGS) at Cornerstone Theater—nominated for Los Angeles Ovation Award Best New Play of 2001-02 season
- GROWING HOME at Cornerstone Theater/CSU Summer Arts
- FACE TO FACE at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
- WILDLIFE at the Powerhouse Theatre (L.A.)
- ENTRIES at Disney Hall’s REDCAT Theatre with La Plaza de la Raza and at George Street Playhouse
- I HATE at Naked Angels (NYC) and is part of USA Network’s Emmy-nominated special “It Just Takes One”.
- LOS FAUSTINOS at Cornerstone Theate
- EL GRECO, an opera (librettist), at INTAR Theatre in NYC and broadcast by NPR.
- BUENAVISTA at Mixed Blood Theatre
- JUNGLE TOONS at Cucaracha Theatre (NYC)
- DOMINION at Borderlands Theater, AZ. and Mark Taper Forum’s New Work Festival
- HOMIES & POPZ at L.A. Opera
- BUS STOP JOURNALS at Cal Poly Pomona & University of Zimbabwe
- MANZANITA: A VIOLENT AFFAIR at the Frida Kahlo Theatre (L.A.)
- ZORRO at TheatreWorks (CO)
- SPEAK SPANISH TO ME at Actors Theatre of Phoenix
- LOST at Company of Angels (L.A.),
- LANGSTON & NICOLAS at Stella Adler (L.A.) by Towne Street Theater.