Katie Hae Leo (she/her) is thrilled to adapt Tae Keller’s beautiful novel for two of her artistic homes, Theater Mu and Stages Theatre Company, and to work with this wonderful creative team. As a playwright, her previous works include Four Destinies, adaptations of Baseball Saved Us and A Single Shard, and N/A, which was part of The Origins Project, as well as “The New Kid” audio story for Mu’s You Shall Hear Me series. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Minnesota. Katie is currently based in Savannah, Georgia and works for The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer advocacy watchdog working on food and nutrition policy, public health, and food equity based in Washington, D.C. katiehaeleo.com