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Acclaimed works include original dance-music-drama productions Ranaw: Isang Alamat (winner, 1985 CCP Playwriting Contest), Sarimanok (winner, 1986 U.P. LIKHAAN), Patas (an outstanding play premiered at the CCP for the 1986 Playwriting Workshop), Kawing, and Buhay, Pag-ibig, at Kamatayan: Mga Kwentong Mindanao which was featured in the 1992 National Theater Festival and the 1994 Singapore Festival of the Arts. Its international version Tales From Mindanao: Life, Love and Death has been performed in major festivals and presentations in the Netherlands, Austria, France and the United Kingdom in IPAG's triumphant 1996 tours.
His latest coup d'theatre is another neo-ethnic epic, Datu Matu, which music he composed and production he conceptualized.
Major multinational corporations and institutions including industry giants NESTLE, Pfizer, National Steel Corporation, among others, have commissioned him for major performance productions.
A 1993-94 Fellow for Drama of the U.P. Creative Writing Center and currently
the resident playwright-panelist of the Iligan National Creative
Writers' Workshop, he has been playwright-critic for various writing
seminars and has published his plays in at least three anthologies.
His subjects on Philippine culture and the arts have been published and his works cited which have brought him to international conferences in SouthEast Asia, U.S.A., China, the Middle East, and Europe. As a Rotary Exchange Fellow, he observed community theatre in California and Nevada. And as an Arts Administrator, he was part of a team to Mainland China to fulfill the RP-China Cultural Exchange. In 1995, he was the only Asian to participate in the International School of Theatre Anthropology of pedagogue Eugenio Barba in Sweden.
TIBO has sat since 1987 in the Dramatic Arts Committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He is Founding Chairman of the Iligan Arts Council, one of the most active of artists' groups in the country today. Featured in the CCP Ency clopedia of the Arts, he is recipient of three outstanding citi zen awards.
He is Professor in the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology where he teaches Stagecraft, Drama, Literature and the Humanities. He has a degree in English and an M.A. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines.
CHECK OUT HIS FAMILY'S HOMEPAGE
"The Renaissance Man" MINDANAW INQUIRER
"Mindanao's Man For All Seasons" GRAPHIC MAGAZINE
"Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities for which the people of Iligan can be proud of." CITATION FOR 1984 ILIGAN CITY AWARD
"A genius...." LUCRESIA REYES URTULA, National Artist for Dance
"A cultural pillar...." REDENTOR ROMERO, International Conductor
"Mr. Theater." DOREEN G. FERNANDEZ, Ph.D, Theater Historian
"Taliba ng Dulaang Pilipino." DR. NICANOR TIONGSON, Ph.D, Former Artistic Director, CCP
"...guru of Mindanao youth theater..." RAMON SOLIMAN, Manila Bulletin, February 1993.
"A prolific and self-propelling artist...." OFELIA RONDINA, Manila Bulletin
"...largely responsible for the development of Philippine Theater in the Southern Philippines." INDEPENDENT
"Total Theater Man, National Class...An Artist of First Rank...." BAYANI SANTOS, Editor, NSC News
"...dynamic, creative, and self-propelling...." MANILA ARTS BULLETIN
"...energetic genius...." MOZART A.T. PASTRANO, Business World
"[has] will, talent, and love for the theater...." CHERNIKHOVSKI GARIK, Vaktangov Theatre, Moscow
"...talented director...." STANISLAV BENEDICTOV, Central Moscow Youth Theatre
"Grand Young Man of Southern Philippine Theater." THE MANILA CHRONICLE
"...heir(s) of ... [the] pioneers [of Southern culture].... versatility ... in conception, direction, and musical writing and leadership." BASILIO ESTEBAN S. VILLARUZ, The Manila Chronicle
"...numerous, invaluable contributions...by himself or through the Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG), which have bestowed honors upon Iligan city and the Lanao area." Citation by the LANAO PRESS AND RADIO-TV CLUB for the 1993 Community Leadership Award in the Arts and Culture.
"...Ilan sa mga pinakamatinik sa literati ng bansa, kasama ang mga hila nilang mga anak at bata, katunayang ang henyo at kadakilaan, sa kaso ng isang Steven Patrick Fernandez...ay lampas sa kakitiran ng edad, ng katayuang intelektual, o panlipunang esta do. Mayaman, malalim at malawak, ngunit hindi kinakailangan maging esoteriko." BAYANI SANTOS, "Pangako ng Umuusbong na Teatrong Pambansa", Unang Tagpo (Mga Antolohiya ng Mga Dula), 1993.
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