Rosa Labordé is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter, director and actress.
["Five Questions with Rosa Labordé"]
''Ottawa Sun
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'', June 3, 2013. She is playwright-in-residence at
Tarragon Theatre
The Tarragon Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the main centers for contemporary playwriting in the country. and Aluna Theatre. Her play ''Léo'' was shortlisted for the
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre
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and the
Governor General's Award for English-language drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided.
Because the awar ...
. 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 to a
Chilean mother and
Eastern European
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father and was raised Jewish.
Plays
* ''The Source''
* ''Sugar''
* ''Leo''
* ''Hush''
* ''Like Wolves''
* ''True''
* ''Marine Life''
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''Torontoist
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In September 2022 ...
'', February 7, 2012.
Acting
References
External links
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Canadian television actresses
Canadian film actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian voice actresses
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian people of Chilean descent
Jewish Canadian actresses
Jewish Canadian writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)