Philippine Educational Theater Association

- is an organization of creative and critical artist-teacher-cultural workers committed to artistic excellence

and a people's culture that fosters both personal fulfillment and social transformation.

-On April 7, 1967, Cecile Guidote-Alvarez established the Philippine Educational Theater Association
(PETA)

- The organization meant to be a vehicle for Philippine Theater to play a role in the development of the
country's people and society. Four years later in 1971, PETA was named the UNESCO-International
Theater Institute Center in the Philippines. In the same year, coinciding with the 400th foundation
anniversary of Manila, PETA organized the first Third World Theater Festival.

-Martial law in the Philippines forced founder Guidote-Alvarez to go to a political exile in 1972 but the
theatrical organization remains operational. The theatrical works of the organization revolved around the
social conditions and political climate during the Martial law era and focused on using the medium of
theater as an empowerment for the marginalized sectors.

-PETA transferred to a permanent building as its headquarters in 2005, which is named the PETA Theater
Center. Since the move, PETA has produced and performed adaptations of classic foreign plays as well as
local and children's theatrical productions. They also began to adopt modern pop music.

-Among PETA's earlier plays have been:

* Bayaning Huwad,

*May-i, May-i,

*Hanggang Dito na Lamang at Maraming Salamat

*Juan Tamban, Pilipinas Circa 1907

*Ang Buhay ni Galileo

*Macbeth

*Canuplin

* Macliing

*Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamo

*Ang Paglalakbay ni Radya Mangandiri 1896

TANGHALANG PILIPINO(TP)

-Founded by theater artist Nonon Padilla was founded in 1987 as the resident theater company of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). contemporary society.

-It was made to raise Philippine Theater to heights of professional and artistic excellence. their skills and
their art.
-It is the leading exponent of Philippine theater and the resident drama company of the Cultural Center
of the Philippines since its organization in 1987.

-It developed playwrights by including original Filipino plays in each theater season.

-Theater plays that are produced by TANGHALANG PILIPINO

*“Mabining Mandirigma,”

* “Lam-Ang”

*“Sandosenang Sapatos,”

* “Pangarap sa Isang Gabi ng Gitnang Tag-Araw,”

*“Coriolano,”

*“Der Kaufmann.”

REPERTORY PHILIPPINES

-Founded in 1967 by a group of actors on the initiative of the late Zeneida A. Amador who was its
President and Artistic Director and Baby Barredo a Filipino theater actress and producer known for co-
founding Repertory Philippines,

- The vision of the organization was to create and develop an interest in culture and the arts in the
country, build a theater industry that would enable talented Filipino-actors, directors, producers,
designers, technicians to work at what they loved, and to make theater-going a social habit in the
Philippines.

-REP produces western plays – both modern and the classics – non-stop throughout the year except for
the summer months when attention turns to Performing Arts workshops and their corresponding
showcase productions, to further educate deserving students. To this date it has staged 455 productions
– each running from 12 to 60 performances.

-Plays performed here:

* LES MISERABLES

* MAN OF LA MANCHA

*FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

*EVITA

* EQUUS

*AMADEUS

* SWEENEY TODD
* ROMEO AND JULIET

NEW VOICE COMPANY

- one of the Philippine's premiere theatre companies and was established in 1994 by acclaimed actress
and director Monique Wilson. The company has since gained an exceptional reputation for innovative,
socially provocative theatre - and has made its' mark as the most political, social and feminist theatre
group in the country - dealing with contemporary political and social issues.

- It is driven by a vision: to produce theatre that enlightens, inspires, educates, informs and incites to
action - to create theatre that becomes a powerful catalyst for change and a necessary tool for social
transformation - theatre that awakens

-known for its provocative and groundbreaking feminist productions such as

*David Mamet's Oleanna

*Diane Shaffer's Sacrilege

*Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

*Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues

* Original play called The Male Voice

TRUMPETS

- Triumphant People's Evangelistic Theater Society (Trumpets) founded by Audie Gemora.

-is Asia’s first and premiere Christian theater company

-known for producing high quality musical productions that inspire, teach and entertain.

-Over the years, more than a thousand enrollees have joined its yearly summer Play shop, in which quite
a number have eventually made their names in different fields of entertainment. As an organization,
what sets Trumpet apart is its mission to not only provide world-class entertainment, but also to imbibe
solid moral values and, ultimately, to help change lives through the magic of theater.

-The company is behind critically acclaimed productions and original adaptations of classic tales such as

*Joseph

*The Dreamer

*The Lion

* The Witch

* The Wardrobe

*The Little Mermaid.