11: National Artist for Theater

Question 1

She elevated legitimate theater and dramatic arts to a new level of excellence by staging and performing in the production of classic Filipino and foreign plays

Answer 1

Daisy Avellana

Question 2

Most of the works she played and became famous in were foreign plays made by Western playwrights like the Othello (1953) and Macbeth in Black (1959).

Answer 2

Daisy Avellana

Question 3

When was Daisy Avellana awarded as a National artist in theater?

Answer 3

1999

Question 4

First Lady of the Philippine Theater

Answer 4

Daisy Avellana

Question 5

She co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild in 1939 with her husband

Answer 5

Daisy Avellana

Question 6

Couple both awarded as national artists in theater

Answer 6

Daisy Avellana

Lamberto Avellana

Question 7

Daisy Avellana’s most remembered character portrayal

Answer 7

Candida Marasigan

in Nick Joaquin’s “Portrait of the Artist as Filipino”

Question 8

Was a singer and bodabil performer who played as Angelita at the age of 14 in the film adaptation of the zarzuela “Dalagang Bukid.”

Answer 8

Honorata “Atang” de la Rama

Question 9

First Filipina film actress in the very first locally produced film.

Answer 9

Honorata “Atang” de la Rama

Question 10

Queen of Kundiman and Sarsuela (1979)

Answer 10

Honorata “Atang” de la Rama

Question 11

Honorata “Atang” de la Rama’s husband who’s also a national artist

Answer 11

Amado V. Hernandez

Question 12

Year of conferment of Atang de la Rama

Answer 12

1987

Question 13

Four Operatas Atang de la rama wrote during her time

Answer 13

Bulaklak sa Kabundukan
Aking Ina
Anak ni Eva
Puri at Buhay

Question 14

He was known for translating Western classics including works of famous playwrights like Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Puccini and Verdi, into Tagalog

Answer 14

Rolando S. Tinio

Question 15

When was Rolando Tinion awarded as a national artist for theater and literature?

Answer 15

1997

Question 16

Prolific theater designer who designed and worked on more than 300 productions in theater, dance, and music

Answer 16

Salvador F. Bernal

Question 17

He pioneered creative use of inexpensive and indigenous materials

Answer 17

Salvador F. Bernal

Question 18

A National Artist for Theater Design awarded in 2003

Answer 18

Salvador F. Bernal

Question 19

Father of Philippine Theater Design

Answer 19

Salvador F. Bernal

Question 20

The Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies

Answer 20

Lamberto V. Avellana

Question 21

Was the first National Artist of the Philippines for Film

Answer 21

Lamberto Avellana

Question 22

He was the first to use motion picture camera to produce point of view films

Answer 22

Lamberto V. Avellana

Question 23

When was Lambarto Avellana awarded as a national artist?

Answer 23

1976

Question 24

Filipino playwright, director, teacher, and theater artist and has mentored some of the country’s best Filipino performing artists including Joy Virata and Joone Gamboa

Answer 24

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Question 25

The first play Guerrero wrote at the age of 14 in Spanish that was produced in Ateneo de Manila University when he was 15

Answer 25

No Todo Es Risa

Question 26

The first Filipino to have a theater named after him

Answer 26

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Question 27

He became a reporter and a proofreader for La Vanguardia, a drama critic for the Manila Tribune

Answer 27

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Question 28

Has written over hundred plays, 41 have been published and several has been translated and produced into Chinese, Italian, Spanish, etc.

Answer 28

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Question 29

One of the Titans of Philippine Theater

Answer 29

Severino Montano

Question 30

a forerunner in institutionalizing “legitimate theatre” in the country who took up courses and graduate degrees abroad

Answer 30

Severino Montano

Question 31

Trained and directed new generation dramatists including Rolando S. Tinio, Emmanuel Borlaza, Joone Gamboa, and Behn Cervantes

Answer 31

Severino Montano

Question 32

Organized the Arena Theatre and its playwrighting contest to bring drama to masses

Answer 32

Severino Montano

Question 33

When was Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero awarded?

Answer 33

1997