An archive of Filipino theatre
She is an actress with an extensive list of roles in film, television and musicals.
Notable roles included Five Weeks in a Balloon and Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror”. She appeared during 2004 and 2010 in the first and sixth episodes of Star Trek: New Voyages, a fan-created show distributed over the Internet.
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Born in Manila, Neile Adams is an actress, dancer, and singer. She was once the darling of Hollywood. Her one-of-a-kind personality was showcased in numerous movies including ‘Chu Chu and the Philly Flash’ and ‘Buddy Buddy ‘ as well as in TV programs including ‘The Eddie Fisher Show’ and ‘The Hollywood Palace’
Works:
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/neile-adams-41649.php
Tiongson was vice-president and artistic director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) from 1986 to 1994. He conceptualized a new direction for the CCP, in 1986, and subsequently authored a comprehensive cultural development plan that has broadened the scope of the CCP Outreach Programs nationwide.
Tiongson was the Philippine Director of Sangandaan 2003, a cultural commemoration that highlighted the arts and media produced by Filipinos, Americans and Filipino-Americans in the course of Philippine-U.S. relations from 1899 to 2002
Works:
https://filminstitute.upd.edu.ph/ngt/
Noli at Fili Dekada 2000:
Basilia ng Malolos:
She is known as the ‘Grand Dame of Southeast Asian Children’s Theater’. Amelia Lapeña was a playwright, puppeteer, and educator, who founded the children’s theater troupe, Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas, or Mulat Theater, the official theater company and puppetry troupe of the University of the Philippines.
She was the President of the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People-Philippines and Union Internationale de la Marionnette-Philippines.
Among her most important works are Anim na Dulang Pilipino Para Sa Mga Bata, and a puppet play, Abadeja: Ang Ating Sinderella, based on a Visayan folktale.
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Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas:
He has worked on more than 300 in art, film, and music. Salvador Bernal became a National artist in 2003.
Bernal is considered as the “Father of Philippine Theatre Design” because he pioneered the creative use of native materials such as bamboo, abaca fiber, hemp twine, rattan chain links, and gauze cacha, giving each production a unique look.
Some of his works are Rajah Sulayman, Abaniko, La Traviata, Tomaneg at Aniway and Pagkahaba-haba man ng Prusisyon sa Simbahan din ang Tuloy (Much Ado About Nothing).
Works:
https://entertainment.inquirer.net/18693/bernal-national-artist-for-theater-design-66
Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage by Nicanor G. Tiongson http://www.philippinestudies.net/files/journals/1/articles/3125/submission/original/3125-3990-1-SM.pdf
His extensive body of work includes 50 plays, 150 poems, and one novel. Aside from his writings, he was also a director, actor, and theater organizer.
During his time as Dean of the Philippine Normal College, he founded the Arena Theater. Through this, he institutionalized “legitimate theater” in the Philippines with the aim of “bringing drama to the masses’ ‘ and creating a national drama program that would serve the barrios of the Philippines, performing in barrios in 47 provinces around the country.
Four of his plays became tour staples: The Love of Leonor Rivera, Parting at Calamba, The Ladies and the Senador, and Sabina. Other published works include My Morning Star, But Not My Sons Any Longer, Gabriela Silang, and The Merry Wives of Manila.
Works:
http://topicalphilippines.com/People_Individuals/Montano_Severino.html
Sabina:
https://efeichem.blogspot.com/2016/06/sabina.html
Parting at Calamba:
https://phoelea.blogspot.com/2011/08/parting-at-calamba-by-severino-montano.html
Known as “The First Lady of Philippine Theatre”. Daisy Pardo Hontiveros-Avellana has been in notable productions like Othello, Macbeth in Black, Casa de Bernarda Alba, and Tatarin.But she is most remembered for her portrayal of Candida Marasigan from the stage and film versions of Nick Joaquin’s classic Portrait of the Artist as a Filipino. She was named a National Artist in 1999
Daisy Hontiveros-Avellana was a director, actor, and writer. Among her directorial credits were Diego Silang, and Walang Sugat. She helped raise the Philippine theater scene from the 30s to the 70s. She would stage and perform in breakthrough productions of classic Filipino and foreign plays and encourage the professionalization of Filipino theater. With her husband, fellow National Artist Lamberto Avellana, she paved the way for the popularization of the dramatic arts in the country, presenting plays even on radio and television.
Works:
https://varsitarian.net/circle/20130611/pillar_of_stage_performing_arts
He was a poet, dramatist, director, actor, critic, set and costume designer, essayist, and educator during his lifetime. Rolando was considered as a “Titan of Philippine theatre”.
He was also known for translating Western classics into Tagalog, bringing Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Checkhov, Puccini, and Verdi to Filipino audiences, and advancing the Filipino language. He likewise helped establish Filipino language drama in the 70s.
Works:
https://philnews.ph/2022/03/02/rolando-tinio-famous-works-some-famous-works-of-the-filipino-poet/
Wilfrido Maria Barredo Guerrero is a director, playwright, and theater actor. He wrote 100 plays during his life., 41 of which have been published. But his unpublished plays have still been staged or broadcast over the radio all over the country. He was made a National artist in 1997.
Some of these plays include: Half an Hour in a Convent, Wanted: A Chaperon, Forever, Condemned, Perhaps, In Unity, Deep in My Heart, Three Rats, Our Strange Ways, The Forsaken House, Frustrations.
Half an Hour in a Convent:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/48689529/Half-an-Hour-in-a-Convent-Wilfrido-Ma-Guerrero
Wanted: A Chaperon
https://upreplib.tripod.com/chaperon.htm
Condemned:
https://pdfslide.net/documents/condemned-wilfredo-ma-guerrero.html
Named as a National Artist in 1987. Atang Dela Rama was a vaudeville star in the 30s. She is also known as the first Filipina actress and the Queen of the Kundiman and the Sarsuela.
She was known for her iconic rendition of Dalagang Bukid. She not only sang at major theaters like Teatro Libertad and Teatro Zorilla but she also performed in cockpits and open plazas around the country.
She was also a theatrical producer, writer, and talent manager.
She was also an advocate for the dominance of kundiman and sarsuela during the American occupation.
She sang kundimans and other Filipino songs in concerts around the world from Hawaii, San Francisco, and New York City, to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo, as part of her quest to bring Filipino culture to the world.
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