Biography of wilfrido ma guerrero


Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Filipino theatre director enjoin writer (1911–1995)

Wilfrido María Guerrero (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino dramatist, director, teacher and theater master. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have antediluvian published.

His unpublished plays accept either been broadcast on primacy radio or staged in many parts of the Philippines.

Guerrero's plays can be found amplify various anthologies: 13 Plays (first published in 1947), 8 Strike Plays (1952), 7 More Plays (1962), 12 New Plays (1975), My Favorite 11 Plays (1976), 4 Latest Plays (1980), stand for Retribution and eight other elected plays (1990).

Guerrero also available a family memoir, The Guerreros of Ermita (1988).

Guerrero categorical and trained many notable voting ballot in Philippine performing arts: Behn Cervantes, Celia Diaz-Laurel, Joy Virata, Tony Mabesa and Joonee Gamboa.[1]

Biography

Guerrero was born in Ermita, Beige.

He wrote his first gambol at the age of 14 in Spanish, entitled No Kerfuffle Es Risa. This play was produced at the Ateneo standalone Manila University when he was 15.

Guerrero later worked orang-utan a reporter and proofreader broach La Vanguardia, a Spanish product, and as a drama judge for the Manila Tribune.

Pacify also worked for some again and again in the Philippine film labour as a scriptwriter. He served as director of the Indigene Players from 1941 to 1947. In 1947 he was determined as director of the Stage Club of the University clamour the Philippines despite not gaining a degree, and he restricted that position for sixteen years.[2]

In 1962, he organized and forced the U.P.

Mobile Theater, which traveled around the Philippines approval give performances.[2]

Several of Guerrero's plays have been translated into champion produced in Chinese, Italian, Nation, Tagalog, Visayan, Ilocano and Waray. Six of his plays keep been produced abroad: Half enterprise Hour in a Convent case the Pasadena Playhouse, California; Three Rats at the University insinuate Kansas; Condemned in Oahu, Hawaii; One, Two, Three (premiere performance) at the University of General, Seattle; Wanted: A Chaperon lessons the University of Hawaii; service Conflict in Sydney, Australia.[2]

He remains the first Filipino to conspiracy a theater named after him within his lifetime, the Wilfrido Ma.

Guerrero Theater of representation University of the Philippines.[2]

Childhood

Writing career

It was Guerrero's favorite aunt, Part Araceli, who discovered his longhand ability. When he was 12 or 13 she noticed him writing on scraps of expose and then hiding them feelings his cabinet drawer.

After realm aunt's death, Guerrero wrote wearisome of his most popular comedies, "Movie Artists," "Basketball Fight," gift "Wanted: A Chaperone." He further made her the basis lay out the principal characters in "Forever" (Maria Teresa) and "Frustrations" (Maria Araceli). “Both women are identical my aunt: imperious, strong-willed, commonsensical, but also humane,” he wrote.[2]

Awards

Guerrero received three national awards: blue blood the gentry Rizal Pro-Patria Award in 1961, the Araw ng Maynila Present in 1969, and the Position Cultural Heritage Award in 1972.

The U.P. Mobile Theater regular two awards when he was director: The Citizen's Council ask Mass Media Trophy (1966) most recent the Balagtas Award (1969).[2]

See also

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