NATIONAL ARTIST

IN THEATER
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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

Casa de Bernarda Alba

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.

Tinio was also an actor, director, and a set and

costume designer. He served all these roles during
his stay with the Ateneo Experimental Theater. Tinio
chose the plays, designs the stage, directs, creates
the costumes and determines the musical score and
other sounds. Productions of the Ateneo
Experimental Theater are completely his vision.
 Poetry collections Newspaper columns
•"Touchstones" for Metro Manila (1977)
•"Sitsit sa Kuliglig" (Whistling at Cicadas) or (Shusshing
•"Totally Tinio" for Manila Chronicle (1986–1987, 1990)
Cicadas) (1972)
•"In Black and White" for Philippine Daily Globe (1987–1989)
•"Dunung-Dunungan" (Pedantry) (1975) "Kristal na
Uniberso" (Crystal Universe)
•"Trick of Mirrors" (1993) Filmography
•"Ang Burgis sa Kanyang Almusal"(1970)
•Karnal (1983) - Bino
•A Dangerous Life (1988) - Jaime Sin
Translated plays •Kadenang Bulaklak (1994) - Fr Barrientos (Priest)
•"Laruang Kristal" (The Glass Menagerie) (1966) •Bayani (1995) - Lolo
•"Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente" (Death of a Salesman) •May Nagmamahal Sa'yo (Madonna and Child) (1996) - Priest
(1966) •Bakit May Kahapon Pa? (1996) - Priest
•"Paghihintay Kay Godo" (Waiting for Godot) (1967)
•"Miss Julie" (1967)
•"Rama Hari" (Rama, King) (1980)

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 

Wilfrido Maria Barredo Guerrero  Several of Guerrero's plays have been translated into and
 (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino
playwright, director, teacher, and theater artist. He
wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been
published. His unpublished plays have either been
broadcast on the radio or staged in various parts of
the Philippines.
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.
produced in Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog, Visayan, Ilocano,
and Waray. Six of his plays have been produced abroad: Half an
Hour in a Convent at the Pasadena Playhouse, California; Three
Rats at the University of Kansas; Condemned in Oahu,
Hawaii; One, Two, Three (premiere performance) at the 
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 
Tinio
 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.

A talented singer, she was known for her iconic rendition

of Dalagang Bukid. A prolific performer, she not only
sang at major theaters like Teatro Libertad and Teatro
Zorilla but she also performed in cockpits and open
plazas around the country.
Honorata “Atang”
Marquezde la Rama- She was also a theatrical producer, writer, and talent
Hernandez  manager.
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Add to all these, she was also a champion of Filipino art
forms, advocating for the dominance of the kundiman
and the sarsuela on stage during the American
Occupation. She even sought to bring these art forms to
indigenous peoples like the Igorots, Aetas, and
Mangyans.

In her quest to bring Filipino culture to global audiences,

she sang kundimans and other Filipino songs in concerts
around the world from Hawaii, San Francisco, and New
York City, to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
Major Works

MAHIWAGANG
BINIBINI

UNA’T
HULING
BITUIN
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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
 Salvador Floro Bernal 
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Salvador Floro Bernal  theater design to the world.
 (January 7, 1945 – October 26, 2011) was
an artist from the Philippines
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
The book “Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage”
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  

Severino Tabat Montano   famous 47 playwriting workshops of George Pierce
 (January 3, 1915 – December 12, 1980)
was a playwright, director, actor, and theater
organizer with an output of one novel, 150
poems, and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime.
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
Baker at Yale University and guided by Broadway
names and international personalities like
Komissarjevsky of the famous Moscow Art Theater.
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), 

But Not My Sons Any Longer (poetic tragedy in two-parts),

Gabriela Silang (poetic historical tragedy in three-parts), 

The Merry Wives of Manila (comedy of manners in three-parts), 

 Parting at Calamba (historical drama).

The Ladies and the Senador (satirical comedy)

Sabina (tragedy),