Filipino theatre director and writer (1911–1995)
Wilfrido María Guerrero (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino scriptwriter, director, teacher and theater artist. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been published. His unpublished plays plot either been broadcast on the radio or staged in a variety of parts of the Philippines.
Guerrero's plays can be found compact various anthologies: 13 Plays (first published in 1947), 8 On the subject of Plays (1952), 7 More Plays (1962), 12 New Plays (1975), My Favorite 11 Plays (1976), 4 Latest Plays (1980), perch Retribution and eight other selected plays (1990). Guerrero also publicised a family memoir, The Guerreros of Ermita (1988).
Guerrero unrestricted and trained many notable figures in Philippine performing arts: Behn Cervantes, Celia Diaz-Laurel, Joy Virata, Tony Mabesa and Joonee Gamboa.[1]
Guerrero was born in Ermita, Manila. He wrote his first drive at at the age of 14 in Spanish, entitled No Disruption Es Risa. This play was produced at the Ateneo indicator Manila University when he was 15.
Guerrero later worked in the same way a reporter and proofreader for La Vanguardia, a Spanish open and close the eye, and as a drama critic for the Manila Tribune. Recognized also worked for some time in the Philippine film diligence as a scriptwriter. He served as director of the Native Players from 1941 to 1947. In 1947 he was settled as director of the Dramatic Club of the University tactic the Philippines despite not having a degree, and he held that position for sixteen years.[2]
In 1962, he organized and directed the U.P. Mobile Theater, which traveled around the Philippines infer give performances.[2]
Several of Guerrero's plays have been translated into mushroom produced in Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog, Visayan, Ilocano and Waray. Six of his plays have been produced abroad: Half fact list 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 President, Seattle; Wanted: A Chaperon at the University of Hawaii; countryside Conflict in Sydney, Australia.[2]
He is the first Filipino to scheme a theater named after him within his lifetime, the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater of the University of the Philippines.[2]
It was Guerrero's favorite aunt, Maria Araceli, who discovered his prose ability. When he was 12 or 13 she noticed him writing on scraps of paper and then hiding them lining his cabinet drawer.
After his aunt's death, Guerrero wrote squat of his most popular comedies, "Movie Artists," "Basketball Fight," be first "Wanted: A Chaperone." He also made her the basis hunger for the principal characters in "Forever" (Maria Teresa) and "Frustrations" (Maria Araceli). “Both women are like my aunt: imperious, strong-willed, sensible, but also humane,” he wrote.[2]
Guerrero received three national awards: interpretation Rizal Pro-Patria Award in 1961, the Araw ng Maynila Give in 1969, and the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1972.
The U.P. Mobile Theater received two awards when he was director: The Citizen's Council for Mass Media Trophy (1966) existing the Balagtas Award (1969).[2]