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ABOUT

GEORGE DE JESUS III

A writer, theater and events director, graphics designer, and actor, George lives in Manila, Philippines.

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George's plays have won awards from the Centennial Literary Competition (Paglayang Minamahal), the NCCA Teatro Bulawan Playwriting Competition (Para Walang Unyon), and the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for the following categories: One-Act Play (Linggo ng Palasapas, Unang Ulan ng Mayo, Kapit); Future Fiction (Cell Phone); Full Length Play (Sala sa Pito, Maniacal) and Screenplay (Kung Paano Maghiwalay).

 

He is the co-founder of the theater group, the Egg Theater Company that specializes in staging contemporary theater pieces of original plays, translations and adaptations geared to evince the modern human condition. For Egg Theater, he translated and directed Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman and Moliere’s The Learned Ladies and The Misanthrope.

 

For Stages Production Specialists, he has directed and created graphic designs for corporate events of some of the Philippines’ top companies including the SM Group of Companies, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald’s Philippines, Manulife Business Processing Services, Philippine National Bank, Whisky Live Manila, among others. Also for Stages, he has written and directed original bio-musicales: I Dream (The Life of Henry Sy, Sr.), Undaunted (The Life of Eugenio Lopez, Sr.), Symphony of My Dreams (A Musicale on the Life of George T. Yang), and Building Visions (A Musicale about Megaworld Corporation).

He was a member of the Actors Company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Pilipino from 1994 to 2000 and has performed in the company’s productions of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Calderon dela Barca’s Las Tres Justicias En Una, Moliere’s The Miser and Les Fourberies de Scapin, Mikhail Bulgakov’s Flight, Luis Valdez’s The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, Michel de Ghelderode’s Pantaglieze, and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.

 

His other acting credits include Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas’ productions of Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Divinas Palabras (2001), Federeco Garcia Lorca’s El Público (2004), Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon (2009), John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (2013), William Wycherley’s The Country Wife (2014) and Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna (2019).

 

He has directed productions for the Cultural Center of the Philippine’s Virgin Labfest (An Annual Festival of One-Act Plays), Stages Production Specialists, Inc. and the De La Salle University College of Saint Benilde’s School for Design and Arts (Aeschylus' Oresteia, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Titus Andronicus, Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid and Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie.

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