Original Performance with the Use of Media

• Philippine Educational Theater Association, fouded in 1967 by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez
• Tanghalang Pilipino, the reident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines founded in 1987
• In 1967, theater director Zenaida Amador fulfiled her dream of bringing the best of Broadway and London's West End to Filipino audiences
• Multi-awarded theater actress and singer, Lea Salonga, began her career as a child lead in productions of Repertory Philippines
• Lea Salonga played the led role of Kim in Miss Saigon
• Repertory's many notable achievements was the 1993 staging of the international hit musical Les Miserables in Manila with an all-Filipino cast and profuction team
• In the 1990s, the Philippine theater group Trumpets began mounting grand productions of originally written musicals with a slant towards hood values for children and the whole famiy
• The intention of Trumpets is to provide wholsome theater experiences for Filipino youth also building up the Philippine theater-going public
• New Voice Company, established in 1994 by Monique Wilson
• New Voice Company has earned a reputation for staging thought-provoking prduction on "controversial" and profound topics
• Philippine Opera Company was founded in 19 by a grup of dedicated classically-trained singers, led by soprano Karla Gutierrez as artistic directress
• The POC seeks to evelop performances as well as audiences for classical music performances, both foreign and Filipino
• In 2007, Theater Down South founded, with the Philippine theater maistay Michael williams as artistic director
• The vision of the Theater Down was to widen the reach of stage production beyond the traditional centers in Metro manila, and therefor develop a broader audience base.
• Technical director shadows the play's director throughout the entire poduction process
• The technical director carefully notes how each actor and every member of the stage, sound, lighting, and costume need to be coordinated to bring the director's vision to life—ensuring that every instruction is properly executed.
• Production manager coordinates all the complex behind-the-scene details of staging a play
• Production manager is tasked with overseeing the crews for the sets and props, the sound and music, the lighting, and the costumes.
• In a professional stage production, this is the person who takes the play from a mere concept to an actual finished presentation.
• Producer chooses all the team members and assign them their functions, and oversees the casting of the actors and actresses for different roles.