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• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero - Pride of Ermita, Manila and Ateneo Community who published and produce 41 plays.
• Wilfrido Guerrero - his plays were known for their humor, love, moral delemmas and the use local idioms and colloquialism.
• Lamberto V. Avellana - a native of Bontoc, Mountain Province, he was a post-war stage and film director.
• Lamberto Avellana - his 1939 film Sakay was the first Filipino hero movie.
• Lamberto Avellana - his movie Anak Dalita was adjudged Best Film in the Asia Pacific Film Festival.
• Lamberto Avellana - a year after in 1957, his motion picture Badjao became a timeless classic for its depiction of the culture of the Badjao ethnic tribe.
• Daisy Avellana - she is the country's top post-war stage actress and theatre director.
• Daisy Avellana - she was the pride of Roxas City, Capiz and together with her husband Lamberto Avellana they were known as Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier of the Philippines.
• Honorata Antang de la Rama - the pride of tondo manila and the Philippines' queen of zarzuela and vaudeville.
• Honorata Antang de la Rama - her Dalagang Bukid is the epitome of all Filipino zarzuelas.
• Honorata Antang de la Rama - as a singer, she popularized native folk songs and kundimans.
• Rolando S. Tinio - he was a poet, essayist, dramatist and teacher who hailed from Tondo Manila.
• Rolando S. Tinio - father of taglish poetry.
• Rolando S. Tinio - he translated the drama plays of Shakespeare, Sophocles, Chekhov and Ibsen.
• Severino Montano - is a playwright, actor, and director from Laoag, Ilocos Norte and made 50 plays in his lifetime such as The Love of Leonor Rivera, Gabriela Silang and The Merry Wives of Manila.
• Severino Montano - in 1953 he founded the Arena Theater, officially the Philippines' first formal venue for theatrical performances.
• Salvador F. Bernal - a native of Dagupan Pangasinan, he was unparalleled as the Philippines' "Father of theatrical stage and set design".
• Salvador F. Bernal - in his more than 300 productions, he was known for his use of local and indigenous materials like abaca, bamboo, ratan.
• Amelia L. Bonifacio (1930 - present) - from Binondo Manila, National Artist for Theatre in 2018. A Filipino playwright, puppeteer and educator known as the "Grande Dame of Southeast Asian Children's Theatre".
• Amelia L. Bonifacio - founder of Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas (Mulat Theatre) the official theater company and puppetry troupe of the University of the Philippines.
• Antonio "TONY" Mabesa - form Los Banos, Laguna. National Artist for Theatre in 2022. A Filipino stage director, film and television actor and professor.
• Antonio "TONY" Mabesa - he was one of the most prominent theater directors in the country. He was also known as a "Lion of the Theater". He founded theater groups Dulaang UP and the UP playwrights' theatre.