Denoy Navarro-Punio (also known as Denoy Punio) is a Filipino television writer. She works as a resident writer for the GMA Network. She is most recognized for her part in the Philippine adaption of the Korean drama My Name is Kim Sam Soon as Ako ni Kim Samsoon.
Chris Martinez
Chris D. Martinez is a screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright from the Philippines. For his plays, he has received the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He has written the book Laugh Trip.
Bella Flores
On February 27, 1929, Remedios Papa Dancel, also known as Bella Flores, was born. She is a Filipino actress best known as the original Primera Kontrabida in Philippine showbiz, and she earned the FAMAS Best Supporting Actress Award in 1967.
Aloy Adlawan
Aloy Adlawan is a multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker, writer, producer, director, and composer (also known as Alfred Aloysius L. Adlawan). He pursued filmmaking education at the New York Film Academy in New York City and the Mowelfund Film Institute in the Philippines.
Allan Lopez
The Philippines’ Allan B. Lopez is a playwright. He earned a BA in Speech Communication from the University of the Philippines at Diliman. Lopez has been a theater fellow at the 38th and 45th UP National Writers Workshops, and his pieces have been produced in a variety of settings and laboratory festivals (Cultural Center of the Philippines, UP, DLSU, CSB, UST, among others).
Albert Tolentino
Alberto Florentino is a playwright and book publisher from the Philippines. His English plays are about the hardships that ordinary Filipinos face. The World Is an Apple, which won him his first Palanca Award in 1954 and is currently one of the most performed plays in the Philippines, is his most well-known work.
Aurelio Valenzuela
Aurelio Tolentino y Valenzuela was born on October 15, 1869 and died on July 5, 1915. He was a Filipino playwright, poet, journalist, and revolutionary. At the turn of the twentieth century, his works showed his desire to see the Philippines free of its occupiers. He was apprehended twice, once by Spaniards and secondly by American troops. After creating and directing the anti-imperialist play Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas in 1903, he was jailed (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow).
Adrian E. Cristobal
Adrian E. Cristobal was a Filipino writer who served in several government roles under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. He is a Filipino playwright who has won the Palanca Award for his work on political and historical themes.
Beyond the memoir of a ticket: Underlining Filipino theater
By: Christian Ralf Dugan
Posted on: 07/07/2016
This article discusses on the many factors of how theatre is underappreciated in the Philippines, which is one of the main struggles the theatre scene in the country is facing.
https://heraldofilipino.com/beyond-the-memoir-of-a-ticket-underlining-filipino-theater-2/
Woes and Foes of Contemporary Philippine Theatre
By: Indie Birds
Published: 02/22/2019
This article discusses the views of Contemporary Philippine theatre. How the media is more accessible than theatre. How economic status of the Filipino people can limit spectators’ ability to witness a play, which can pose a challenge to its popularity, and how theatre also lacks support from its locals.
https://www.indiebirds.com/contemporary-philippine-theatre/
