Leon Aureus
Festival Participant
Leon Aureus is an actor, writer, designer, producer and filmmaker. Select theatre acting credits include: Oy! Just Beat it!; Aisha ‘n Ben (Theatre Ji); People Power (Carlos Bulosan Theatre/CBT); a nanking winter (Nightwood Theatre); Singkil (fu-GEN Theatre Company – receiving a Dora award nomination for Outstanding Performance) and Yogyakarta (Absit Omen/Bell Tower Theatre). He was also a founding member of fu-GEN Theatre Company where he served as Artistic Director and Artistic Producer. As a playwright, Leon adapted the novel Banana Boys by Terry Woo for the stage and he co-wrote the play People Power with the CBT Collective. Banana Boys was published by Playwright’s Canada Press and is also included in Love + Relasianships: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama. Volume 2. Monologues from the play will also be included in the upcoming book of monologues, His (ECW Press). Leon’s television credits include CBC’s The Border, Discovery Channel’s Mayday and A&E’s upcoming series, Breakout Kings. Also an emerging filmmaker, he has established the film production company, Big Duke Six Films. Among his short films, Friend’s Like These was nominated for Best Canadian Short at the 2002 ReelWorld Film Festival and The Commute was an official selection of the 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF). As a graphic designer, Leon has had the privilege to design work for many organizations in the arts community, including Native Earth Performing Arts, Factory Theatre, Playwright’s Canada Press, Cahoots Theatre Company and Diaspora Dialogues. Upcoming theatre projects include the completion and performance the CBT Collective’s In The Shadow of Elephants and a collective creation project with UnSpun Theatre Company entitled One Block.
