Leonardo Gonzalez Dominguez is a writer & performer, they originate from Guanajuato, Mexico, and Greenville, South Carolina, where the former birthed them and the latter shaped them. An undocumented upbringing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains continues to influence their work on the deconstruction and reconstruction of space, time, and progress as they search for small utopias in the chaos of today. Leonardo’s work has been supported by the likes of New York Theatre Workshop, PEN America, National Queer Theater, IATI Theater, The Players Theater, The Workshop Theater, and the civilians. They have been a finalist for the Dramatist Guild Foundation’s DGF Fellowship and a semi-finalist for Breaking & Entering’s 2023/2024 season. Their prose “I was going to write a play…” was published by PEN American in the 2022 anthology of migrant writers, DREAMING OUT LOUD. They recently concluded an Artistic Fellowship with Signature Theatre for the 2022/2023 season. Leonardo graduated from the rita and burton goldberg department of dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (summa cum laude, Founders Scholar).