leo started diy-ing consent-based practices for live performance around 2016. A couple years later, they started their formal training and have since trained with NSIP, IDC, ICOC, TIE and others, while working as an intimacy choreographer, consultant, and coordinator.

leo is a Guiding Faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education, where he has created workshop curriculum for other ICs, including Working With Trans and Nonbinary Artists, Staging Intimacy Beyond the Binary, Community Care, Bystander Intervention, Improv and Intimacy, and Training the Trans Singing Voice.

Recent intimacy work has been seen at The Wilma (Twelfth Night), The Lantern (Romeo & Juliet, The Wanderers), Philadelphia Fringe (Othello (vs the Military Industrial Complex), NYU Tisch (Kate Crackernuts), Hogfish (The Breasts of Tiresias), Mad Horse Theatre Company (Witch), Portland Theater Fest (Pony).

As an intimacy coordinator, he has worked on a number of student films at NYU, as well as the 2023 queer erotic thriller, Birder (dir. Nate Dushku).

leo has also presented their work at conferences like ATHE and SETC, and has facilitated workshops and conversations on consent-based performance practices at Pig Iron, Portland Stage Company, University of Michigan, Villanova, and Washington State University to name a few.

From 2018-2024 they worked as an educator, director, and Program Manager with Speak About It, a nonprofit bringing comprehensive and inclusive sex and consent education to college and high school students across the continent. Through Speak About It, leo has written and led workshops for students, student leaders, faculty, and families.