PHILSTAGE Launches Performing Arts Awards, Invites Jury Members

ANNOUNCEMENT:
PHILSTAGE Launches Performing Arts Awards,
Invites Jury Members

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

PHILSTAGE launches performing arts awards, invites jury members

The Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group (PHILSTAGE), the
country's only organization of professional performing arts
companies, invites critics, educators, researchers and regular
audiences of theater, music and dance productions to seek Jury Panel
membership slots for the 2008 PHILSTAGE Awards for the Performing
Arts.

Conceived as peer awards similar to many of the performing arts
industry awards abroad, the PHILSTAGE Awards are conferred for
outstanding achievements in the performing arts by PHILSTAGE member-
companies such as Actors Actors, Inc. (AAI), Ballet Manila (BM),
Ballet Philippines (BP), Gantimpala Theater Foundation (GANTIMPALA) ,
Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM), Philippine Education
Theater Association (PETA), Repertory Philippines (REP), Tanghalang
Pilipino (TP), and Triumphant People's Evangelistic Theater Society,
Inc. (TRUMPETS).

Awards shall be given for outstanding achievements in production or
performance, stage direction, original script/concept, musical
direction, choreography, theater performance (individual) , musical
performance (individual) , dance performance (individual) , production
design, outstanding costume design, and lighting design. While
PHILSTAGE administers the awards, the final recipients will be chosen
by an independent Jury Panel selected by the PHILSTAGE Board of
Directors from a roster of respected critics, performing artists,
cultural researchers and scholars, and the general public. An initial
list of invited jury members has been drawn up while a limited number
is open to application by the general public.

Confirmed jury applicants and invited jury members shall serve a one-
year term of office starting January 2008. They shall enjoy the the
privilege of watching all PHILSTAGE productions for the given year,
to which tickets will be issued gratis. Only those who have watched
all the productions identified for awards consideration may
participate in the selection of quarterly citations and final
nominees and awardees come January 2009.

The PHILSTAGE Board of Directors is composed of TP's Dennis
Marasigan, president; PETA's Melvin Lee, vice president; BP's Sandy
Hontiveros, secretary; REP's Gigette Tolentino, treasurer, AAI's
Leonardo Lim, BM's Susan Macuja, Gantimpala's Tony Espejo, OPM's
Mitch Valdes, TRUMPET's Alvin Dela Pena, and PHILSTAGE Executive
Director Elmar Beltran Ingles.

Interested parties may email their curriculum vitae to philstage@tri-
isys.com with a cover letter stating their qualifications to serve as
Jury Member. Applicants from the audience sector may come from any
professional, student, government or NGO sector who have manifested a
sustained patronage of cultural productions in the performing arts.
They should include in their CV a list of productions watched over
the past three years. Deadline of emailed application is on January
2, 2008. Successful applicants will be notified not later than
January 3, 2007 and should be available for the Jury briefing and
orientation to be held on January 5, 2008, 3 p.m. at the Tanghalang
Pilipino Office at the CCP Production Design Center (back of CCP Main
Building).