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Daisy Pardo Rolando Santos Wilfrido Maria Honorata “Atang” Salvador Floro Bernal Severino Tabat
Hontiveros- Barredo Guerrero Marquezde la Rama- Montano
Avellana Hernandez
Tinio
Daisy Avellana (January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013) was a Filipino stage
actress and theater director. Avellana was honored as a
National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film in 1999.
Avellana was born Daisy Hontiveros on January 26, 1917, in Capiz, Capiz,
(now Roxas City). Her husband was Lamberto Avellana, a film and stage
director who was also named a National Artist in 1976. Daisy and Lamberto
Avellana co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild (BTG), together with forty-
eight colleagues, in 1939.
Daisy Pardo Hontiveros-
Avellana Avellana was one of the first graduates of the UST Graduate School with
Master of Arts (MA) in English.
Avellana died on May 11, 2013, at the age of 96.
Daisy Avellana (January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013) was a Filipino stage
actress and theater director. Avellana was honored as a
National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film in 1999.
Avellana was born Daisy Hontiveros on January 26, 1917, in Capiz, Capiz,
(now Roxas City). Her husband was Lamberto Avellana, a film and stage
Daisy Pardo Hontiveros- director who was also named a National Artist in 1976. Daisy and Lamberto
Avellana Avellana co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild (BTG), together with forty-
eight colleagues, in 1939.
Avellana was one of the first graduates of the UST Graduate School with
Master of Arts (MA) in English.
Avellana died on May 11, 2013, at the age of 96.
Lamberto Avellana
She elevated legitimate theater and dramatic arts to a new
level of excellence by staging and performing in breakthrough
productions of classic Filipino and foreign plays and by
encouraging the establishment of performing groups and the
professionalization of Filipino theater.
Major Works
Macbeth in Black
Othello
Tatarin
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Daisy Pardo Rolando Santos Wilfrido Maria Honorata “Atang” Salvador Floro Bernal Severino Tabat
Hontiveros- Barredo Guerrero Marquezde la Rama- Montano
Avellana Hernandez
Tinio
Rolando Santos Tinio
Rolando Tinio is a Philippine National Artist for Theater and Literature. He
was born in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila on March 5, 1937. As a child, Tinio
was fond of organizing and directing his playmates for costumed
celebrations. He was an active participant in the Filipino movie industry and
enjoyed working with Philippine celebrities whom he himself had admired in
his childhood. Tinio himself became a film actor and scriptwriter. He is often
described as a religious, well-behaved, and gifted person. Tinio graduated
with honors (a magna cum laude achiever) with a degree in Philosophy from
the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas at age 18 in 1955 and an
M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing: Poetry from the University of Iowa
Rolando Santos Tinio was directing a musical when he suffered a
Rolando Santos Tinio heart attack in Manila on July 7, 1997. He died on July 8, 1997,
at age 60. His wife, theater, and film actress Ella Luansing had
died some years before. He was survived by his two children,
Antonio and Victoria.
Tinio was known as a great writer that used English
as the medium of Filipino writing. He wrote his
poetic collection: Rage and Ritual which won an
award from the University of the Philippines.
Bienvenido Lumbera, also an alumnus of the Royal
and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, describes
this collection as elegant and with a truly
contemporary tone if taken from the European
literary critical view.
Essay collections
•"A Matter of Language, Where English Fails" (1990)[
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Daisy Pardo Rolando Santos Wilfrido Maria Honorata “Atang” Salvador Floro Bernal Severino Tabat
Hontiveros- Barredo Guerrero Marquezde la Rama- Montano
Avellana Hernandez
Tinio
Wilfrido Maria Barredo Guerrero
Guerrero was born in Ermita, Manila. He wrote his first play at the
age of 14 in Spanish, entitled No Todo Es Risa. This play was
produced at the Ateneo de Manila University when he was 15.
Guerrero later worked as a reporter and proofreader for La
Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper, and as a drama critic for
the Manila Tribune. He also worked for some time in the
Philippine film industry as a scriptwriter. He served as director of
the Filipino Players from 1941 to 1947. In 1947 he was appointed
as director of the Dramatic Club of the
University of the Philippines despite not having a degree, and he
held that position for sixteen years.
In 1962, he organized and directed the U.P. Mobile Theater,
which traveled around the Philippines to give performances.
Wilfrido Maria Barredo Guerrero Several of Guerrero's plays have been translated into and
(January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino produced in Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog, Visayan, Ilocano,
playwright, director, teacher, and theater artist. He and Waray. Six of his plays have been produced abroad: Half an
wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been Hour in a Convent at the Pasadena Playhouse, California; Three
published. His unpublished plays have either been Rats at the University of Kansas; Condemned in Oahu,
broadcast on the radio or staged in various parts of Hawaii; One, Two, Three (premiere performance) at the
the Philippines. University of Washington, Seattle; Wanted: A Chaperon at the
University of Hawaii; and Conflict in Sydney, Australia.
He is the first Filipino to have a theater named after him within his
lifetime, the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater of the
University of the Philippines.[2]
Guerrero formed the Filipino Players and served as its
director from 1940 to 1947. He was appointed as assistant
professor of dramatics in 1947 which caused an uproar
among the faculty as did not possess a university degree.
He was nevertheless appointed and served as director of
the UP Dramatic Club for 16 years. Under his leadership,
the club has produced over 120 foreign and Filipino plays
and casting and trained future directors who were then
neophyte actors like Behn Cervantes, Tony Mabesa,
Jonee Gamboa, Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal, Celia Diaz-
Laurel, Jun Roy, and Joy Virata in his production.
Upon the suggestion of UP President Carlos P. Romulo,
Guerrero set up the UP Mobile Theater. It had more than
2,500 performances all over the country. He also
presented his plays in English and in regional languages
for 19 years.
He retired from UP in 1982 after 35 years of service. He
was named professor emeritus the following year. The
theater in the Arts and Sciences building at UP was
named after him in 1976.
Major Works
•Women Are Extraordinary, 1937
•Hate Begins, 1938
•Romance in B Minor, 1939
•Movie Artists, 1940
•Wanted: A Chaperone, 1940
•Forever, 1941
•Condemned, 1944
•Frustrations, 1944
•Wow These Americans, 1946
•Perhaps, 1947
•Three Rats, 1948
•Deep in My Heart, 1951
•In Unity, 1953
•Our Strange Ways, 1953
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Daisy Pardo Rolando Santos Wilfrido Maria Honorata “Atang” Salvador Floro Bernal Severino Tabat
Hontiveros- Barredo Guerrero Marquezde la Rama- Montano
Avellana Hernandez
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Honorata “Atang”
Marquezde la Rama-
Hernandez
Named National Artist in 1987, Atang de la Rama was a
star of vaudeville in the 30s or ‘bodabil’ in these parts.
She is also known as the first Filipina actress and the
Queen of the Kundiman and the Sarsuela.
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Daisy Pardo Rolando Santos Wilfrido Maria Honorata “Atang” Salvador Floro Bernal Severino Tabat
Hontiveros- Barredo Guerrero Marquezde la Rama- Montano
Avellana Hernandez
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Salvador Floro Bernal
s
Bernal's career began in 1969. His output included
over 300 productions in art, film and music, and
earned him the award of
National Artist for Theater and Design in 2003.[1] He
earned a philosophy degree in 1966 from the
Ateneo de Manila University where he would later
teach literature and stage design.
Bernal organized the Philippine Association of
Theatre Designers and Technicians (Patdat) in
1995, through which he introduced Philippine
Salvador Floro Bernal theater design to the world.
(January 7, 1945 – October 26, 2011) was The book “Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage”
an artist from the Philippines by Nicanor G. Tiongson, is a comprehensive review
of Bernal’s work as designer for theater, with over
200 full-color photographs of his sketches, models,
and actual costumes and sets complementing the
text.
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Daisy Pardo Rolando Santos Wilfrido Maria Honorata “Atang” Salvador Floro Bernal Severino Tabat
Hontiveros- Barredo Guerrero Marquezde la Rama- Montano
Avellana Hernandez
Tinio
Severino Tabat Montano
Montano was born in 1915 in Laoag, Ilokos Norte.
Academically, he started his tutelage under a
British mentor, Marie Leslie Prising, when he was
thirteen. He studied at the University of the
Philippines. She took Montano under her wing and
endowed him with Western literature, the theater,
and Shakespeare. He was part of the UP Stage
when he studied at the University of the
Philippines. Then a scholarship took him to the
Severino Tabat Montano famous 47 playwriting workshops of George Pierce
(January 3, 1915 – December 12, 1980) Baker at Yale University and guided by Broadway
was a playwright, director, actor, and theater names and international personalities like
organizer with an output of one novel, 150 Komissarjevsky of the famous Moscow Art Theater.
poems, and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime. He was conferred a Master of Fine Arts degree in
playwrighting and production by Yale University.
Major Works
The Love of Leonor Rivera (poetic tragedy in two-parts),
My Morning Star (poetic historical tragedy in three-parts),
Sabina (tragedy),