Rosa Labordé is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter, director and actress."Five Questions with Rosa Labordé"
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'', June 3, 2013. She is playwright-in-residence at

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and Aluna Theatre. Her play ''Léo'' was shortlisted for the

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and the

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. 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

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father and was raised Jewish.

Plays

* ''The Source'' * ''Sugar'' * ''Leo'' * ''Hush'' * ''Like Wolves'' * ''True'' * ''Marine Life'' "What to Catch at the 33rd Annual Rhubarb Festival"
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'', February 7, 2012.

Acting

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laborde, Rosa 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)