Leo Rose Rodriguez is a nonbinary lesbian writer and artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They spend their nights working in technical theatre and their days in political canvassing, and time in-between listening to punk rock and reading sci-fi. Their work has been featured in Snowflake Magazine, Messy Misfits Zine, oranges journal, and elsewhere. Leo's debut poetry chapbook, "Fatherland, Motherland," is available from Kith Books.
I'm interested in writing weird, fantastical, and gut-wrenching plays that pinch at raw nerves. Life and death, sex and religion. My work always has a queer, gender-busting slant. I like to create a canvas where designers, directors, and technicians can let their imaginations run wild.
Plays
1959. Priscilla-Jane Allaway has grown up a ward of the nuns of Saint Catherine’s Academy. Priscilla is desperately searching for a divine purpose in her life, for a great work she can devote to God-- while also reeling from a rejection by the girl she loves. In the midst of this, the rough-and-tumble Skye arrives at the Academy, sent there by their parents to “cure” them of their genderqueerness.
When Priscilla thwarts Skye's attempt to escape the Academy, the two accidentally awaken the ghost of a student who died on campus decades prior. In their attempt to set the ghost to rest and solve the mystery of her death, they uncover secrets about the school that shake Priscilla's faith-- and form an unexpected connection.