Theater Arts

• WILFRIDO MA. GUERRERO

  • DATE OF AWARD: 1997
  • POPULAR WORKS: HIS PLAYS INCLUDE HALF AN HOUR IN A CONVENT, WANTED: A CHAPERON, FOREVER, CONDEMNED, PERHAPS, IN UNITY, DEEP IN MY HEART, THREE RATS,
  • IS A TEACHER AND THEATER ARTIST WHOSE 35 YEARS OF DEVOTED PROFESSORSHIP HAS PRODUCED THE MOST STERLING LUMINARIES IN PHILIPPINE PERFORMING ARTS TODAY
  • AS FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE UP MOBILE THEATER, HE PIONEERED THE CONCEPT OF THEATER CAMPUS TOUR AND DELIVERED NO LESS THAN 2,500 PERFORMANCES IN A SPAN OF 19 YEARS
• DAISY AVELLANA

  • DATE OF AWARD: 1999
  • POPULAR WORKS: OTHELLO (1953), MACBETH IN BLACK (1959), CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA (1967), TATARIN, CANDIDA MARASIGAN OF NICK JOAQUIN’S PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO
  • A FILIPINA THEATER ACTRESS AND DIRECTOR
  • RECOGNIZED FOR BRINGING LEGITIMACY TO THEATER AS AN ART FORM THROUGH QUALITY AND OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS OF BOTH FOREIGN AND CLASSIC LOCAL PLAYS.
• LAMBERTO V. AVELLANA

  • DATE OF AWARD: 1976
  • POPULAR WORKS: ANAK DALITA, BADJAO, KANDELERONG PILAK, SERGEANT HASAN (1967), DESTINATION VIETNAM (1969), THE EVIL WITHIN (1970).
  • DIRECTOR FOR THEATER AND FILM, HAS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING CALLED “THE BOY WONDER OF PHILIPPINE MOVIES” AS EARLY AS 1939
  • FIRST TO USE THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA TO ESTABLISH A POINT-OF-VIEW
• ANTONIO O. MABESA

  • DATE OF AWARD: 2022
  • POPULAR WORKS: ANTON CHEKHOV, HENRIK IBSEN’S “PEER GYNT,” FLOY QUINTOS’ “ST. LOUIS LOVES DEM FILIPINOS,” AND NICK JOAQUIN’S “PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO”
  • DIRECTOR, ACTOR, AND TEACHER ANTONIO MABESA, ALSO KNOWN AS THE “LION OF THE THEATER”
  • HE FOUNDED THE THEATER GROUPS DULAANG UP AND THE UP PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE
  • DIRECTOR, ACTOR, AND TEACHER ANTONIO MABESA, ALSO KNOWN AS THE “LION OF THE THEATER”
  • HE FOUNDED THE THEATER GROUPS DULAANG UP AND THE UP PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE