About

Solange Castro is a writer, standup comic and playwright. Her first standup comedy album “A Journey of Self Discovery,” produced by RadLand Records, is available on Spotify.  She is the author of the original plays, “Changes In The Mating Strategies of White People,”published by Broadway Play Publishing, and “End of Times Therapy,” premiered at the Santa Monica Playhouse in February of 2025. She is also the author of her memoir about learning to dance salsa,  “Salsa Chica: How I Learned To Dance Salsa And Avoid Real Life.”  She is a regular performer at The Westside Comedy Theater, where she also teaches Standup Comedy 101, she was chosen as “Comic of the Week” on The Jackie & Laurie Show  and performed at the SF Sketch Fest in 2020 and 2024. She also teaches a Zoom Comedy Class to students all over the US and Western Europe and in Fall 2025 she will begin teaching “The American Art Form of Standup Comedy” at Yale University.  She has taught salsa dancing to some of the best  comics in her web series  “Teaching Comics to Dance Salsa,“ including Maria Bamford, Morgan Jay, Brian Kiley. She has opened for long-time friend Maria Bamford and you might catch her as Maria’s friend “Solange” in the Netflix sitcom “Lady Dynamite.” Other projects include, the short documentary “A California For Everyone” about the California Environmental Quality Act’s impact on the California housing crisis, and the publication of her mother’s, Rafaela Castro, novel, “Cantina Confidential,” about migrant farm workers in 1940s California. To not be broke, she worked as a Project Manager in Advertising for many years making those ads that appear on websites, sorry. 

Solange attended Berkeley High School and Yale University where she majored in English Literature.  When she’s not writing and performing, Solange dances salsa and travels.  You can follow her on Instagram @solange_here or read her blog at  www.searchforsanity.com