Rosa Labordé


Rosa Labordé is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter, director and actress. She is playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre and Aluna Theatre. Her play Léo was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Governor General's Award for English-language drama. In 2012 she received the KM Hunter Artist’s Award for Theatre. In 2016 she wrote the first two episodes of the second season of HBO Canada's Sensitive Skin.

Early life

Rosa was born in Ottawa, Ontario to a Chilean mother and Eastern European father and was raised Jewish. She is a graduate of the Oxford School of Drama in England and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Plays