Jose Solís
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Jose Solís (born on 11th Apr 1986) is a Honduran critic, journalist, public speaker, podcast creator and writer based in New York City [1]. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Toronto Star, The Washington Post, American Theatre magazine, TDF Stages, National Catholic Reporter, Encore Monthly, Backstage, Salon, Rotten Tomatoes, 3Views, and America (magazine). He is the founder of the web series/podcast Token Theatre Friends and BIPOC Critics Lab[2].
Career
Jose Solís began his career at 16. While attending college in Costa Rica, he began writing film critic as a freelancer. In 2012, he moved to New York City. He started covering theatre, film, and the arts for mainstream media, including PopMatters, The Costa Rica News, American theatre Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, 3Views, The Quill (magazine), TDF Stages, Backstage, Token Theatre Friends, America Magazine, TimeOut New York and StageBuddy. He has lectured at Harvard University, Princeton University and Brown University.
In 2018, he launched Token Theatre Friends, a theatre review website and interview series, in New York City and which was produced by American Theatre magazine Magazine. The web series/podcast brought the perspective of people of color to performing arts.
Jose is also an activist in racial equality in criticism which is why in 2020, he founded BIPOC Critics Lab, a mentoring and training program for Cultural critic|cultural critics [3]. During the coronavirus pandemic, he launched Zoom-based classes for aspiring critics through which the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center approached him to replicate the program during the American College Theatre Festival [4].
Some of his key works include A Surprising First Live Show, in the Hometown I Once Fled[5], I Saw Myself in ‘Anastasia.’ And I Knew I Had to Leave Honduras[6], Rewatching Sex and the City During a Pandemic[7], Bated Breath's ‘Voyeur’ reimagines the life of Toulouse-Lautrec[8], A new play honors Our Lady of Guadalupe and the missing women of Juarez [9] among others
Affiliations
Jose Solís has been affiliated with notable associations. He served as a Drama Desk Award nominating committee member between 2018 and 2020. In 2020, he was appointed as the Floria Lasky Visiting Artist at Hunter College[10]. His other affiliations include Latino Entertainment Journalists Association[11], National Critics Institute (2016) [12], Online Film Critics Society and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics[13].
During the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 50th anniversary, Jose Solís was appointed as one of the "Next 50" by the Kennedy Center together with notable public figures such as Amanda Gorman, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Megan Rapinoe, Erik Bruner-Yang, José Cruz González among others[14].
References
- ↑ "5 Questions to Jose Solís (culture critic)". icareifyoulisten. 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ↑ "BIPOCS CRITICS LAB". PublicTheater.
- ↑ "5 Questions to Jose Solís (culture critic)". icareifyoulisten. 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ↑ "A NEW AGE OF CRITICISM An interview with cultural critic Jose Solís". DRAMATICS. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
- ↑ "A Surprising First Live Show, in the Hometown I Once Fled". The New York Times. 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ "I Saw Myself in 'Anastasia.' And I Knew I Had to Leave Honduras". The New York Times. 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ "Rewatching Sex and the City During a Pandemic". 3viewstheater. 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
- ↑ "Looking from the outside in, 'Voyeur' reimagines the life of Toulouse-Lautrec". WashingtonPost. 2020-11-18.
- ↑ "A new play honors Our Lady of Guadalupe and the missing women of Juarez". Americanmagazine. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ↑ "The Kennedy Center Next 50". Kennedy Center. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
- ↑ "Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Formed". 7 December 2018.
- ↑ "Jose Solís: The Critic as Cheerleader, and Critics' Lab Leader". Americanmagazine. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ↑ "GALECA :: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics :: Home of the Dorian Awards".
- ↑ "The Kennedy Center Next 50-Announcing 50 leaders who are lighting the way forward through art and action". Kennedy Center. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
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