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, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain in IPAG's triumphant 1996, 1997 and 1998 tours.  

He has had a series of one-man music-comedy shows which have performed for local audiences and among the Filipino contract workers in the Middle East.

A coup d'theatre is another neo-ethnic epic, Datu Matu, which music he composed and production he conceptualized. The play was featured in the 1996 National Theater Festival of the CCP. At present, he is working on the mixed-media version of the abduction of Princess Lawanen which he adapted from the Maranao epic, Darangen. 

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, 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 sat for three terms starting in 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  Encyclopedia of the Arts, he is recipient of three outstanding citizen 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.