National Artist - Theatre

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  • National Capital Region

    Region in the Philippines
  • Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

    Filipino playwright, director, and founder of the UP Mobile Theater
  • Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero served as the director of UP Dramatic Club
    1997
  • UP Mobile Theater

    1. Started the concept of theater campus tour
    2. Brought theatre to the countryside
    3. Allowed students and audiences to experience the basic grammar of staging and acting in familiar and friendly ways
  • Guerrero's plays humorously reflect the behavior of the Filipino
  • Guerrero's plays

    • 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
  • Region 1-Ilocos Region

    Salvador F. Bernal (2003)
    1. Acknowledged as the "guru of contemporary Filipino theater design," he designed more than 300 productions since 1969. He adapted to the budget limitations by using local materials such as bamboo, abaca, hemp twine, rattan chain links, and gauze cacha.
    He organized Philippine Association of Theater Designers and Technicians (PATDAT) to promote and professionalize theater design.
  • Region 1 - Ilocos Region

    Severino Montano (2001) He is the forerunner in institutionalizing "legitimate theater" in the Philippines He organized the Arena Theater to bring drama to the masses and established a graduate program at the Philippine Normal College for the training of playwrights, directors, technicians, actors, and designers
  • Region 6-Western Visayas
    1. Daisy Avellana
    She elevated legitimate theater and dramatic arts and encouraged the establishment of performing groups and the professionalization of Filipino theater. She co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild, together with her husband, Lamberto Avelllana, which gave way for the popularization of theater and dramatic arts in the country through radio and television.
    She starred in plays like "Othello (1953)," "Macbeth in Black (1959)," "Casa de Bernarda Alba (1967)," and "Tatarin." Her directorial credits include "Diego Silang (1968)," and "Walang Sugat (1971).