Mickey Solis is a screenwriter and actor. He was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, to make-up artist Dawn Butler and social service worker Miguel Solis III. Mickey was raised on a small farm by his grandparents, Elena and Mike Solis Jr., two migrant Mexican-American farm workers who, during the 1960s and '70s, traveled with their six children picking crops from Southern Texas to the Midwest. Mickey and his sister, Isidra, were the first generation of the Solis family born in Michigan and raised away from the migrant camps. Obsessed with all genres of film and television as a boy, and often discovered playing make-believe among the trees and corn fields, Mickey was encouraged by his grandparents and aunt, Marisa, to begin stage acting locally as a young 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 quickly found success as an 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 in the mid aughts, 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. In 2018 Solis began his 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 Productions and will premiere in June of 2021.