Told through Leoâ??s memories, the play travels through childhood, first friends, and first loves. Passion and poetry weave together in this story of innocence disappeared.

According to the Toronto Star, Rosa Laborde is a young writer who "deserves both attention and respect" and NOW Magazine asked, "Is there anything this multi-talented artist can't do?" Rosa's plays include: The Source, Sugar, Dish, Leo, Hush and the upcomingMarine Life and Like Wolves and have been produced across Canada at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, The Great Canadian Theatre Company, Neptune Theatre, Touchstone Firehall Theatre and The Belfry Theatre. Her comedic hit Sugar was named an Outstanding New Play by NOW Magazine. Her political drama Leo was mounted twice at Tarragon Theatre before touring Canada, was nominated for five Dora Mavor Moore Awards including Outstanding New Play and was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama and received a reading at Playwright's Horizons in NYC in March 2012. Rosa is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre as well as The Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa and is beginning a residency with Toronto's Aluna Theatre. She has just completed her second residency with The Banff Centre for the Arts.

Rosa Labordé's profile page

Richard Rose is the Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre. Prior to joining the Tarragon in 2002, Richard was Founding Artistic Director at Necessary Angel (a position he held from 1978–2002), Associate Director for Canadian Stage Company, Director of the Stratford Festival Young Company, and spent ten seasons directing at the Stratford Festival.

He has directed plays across Canada, the United States, and in London’s West End in styles ranging from the environmental to the classical. Richard is well known for developing new work, including four plays that won the Governor General’s Literary Award and nine other nominated plays. He is a four-time Dora award winner for direction and production and has had numerous nominations.

Richard Rose's profile page

â??â?¦an engaging play about three young people in 60s and 70s Chile. Funny and intense in turn, Labordeâ??s script, filled with poetic monologues and pungent dialogue, is about the boundless universe that the young see before them and the limits later imposed by lifeâ??s experiences.â?
â??NOW Magazine

â??This is clearly one of the most interesting, captivating and thought-provoking new scripts to come our way in a long time and it marks Laborde as a writer who deserves both attention and respectâ?¦. Leo is a small jewel that hums with vibrant writing and powerfully felt emotions.â? â??Toronto Star

â??Thereâ??s a unique writing voice, considerable stylistic panache and a sophisticated approach to both drama and politics that suggest a playwright whose promiseâ?¦ will be fulfilled in future works.â?
â??The Globe and Mail