Mickey Solis

Mickey Solis is a screenwriter and actor raised on a small farm in Michigan by his aunt and grandparents. Obsessed with all genres of film and television since childhood, Mickey was encouraged to begin stage acting locally as a teen. Later, in college at Western Michigan University, he pursued religious studies, drama history, script analysis, and performance training. He moved to Massachusetts in 2003 to pursue graduate training in drama at The Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Solis found success as a stage actor, starring in five seasons of plays at the American Repertory Theater from 2005 to 2011 under the tutelage of legendary stage directors like Robert Woodruff, Anne Bogart, Les Water, and Mark Wing-Davey. He moved to New York City working as a professional actor in film, television, commercials, Off Broadway, and in regional theaters across America. In 2010, encouraged and mentored by renowned filmmaker and theater director Janos Szasz, Solis wrote and later optioned his first screenplay, a dramatic thriller titled Michigan, about a mysterious string of suicides in a small Midwestern town.

Over the following decade, Solis authored more original feature scripts and television pilots, and wrote and co-wrote short films with festival premieres in NYC, such as Lament for the Artist and Fall North, starring friend and fellow experimental stage actor Bill Camp.

Solis' first film development project, the feature-length action thriller Rogue Hostage was shot in 2020, starring John Malkovich, Tyrese Gibson, and Michael Jai White. It was produced by Yale Entertainment and premiered in June of 2021.