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BIO

Cris Villonco is a Filipino performance artist whose credits include performances in theater, television, film, recordings, music videos, and advertisements. She is currently associated with Repertory Philippines.

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STAGE CREDITS

[International Tour]
Manila Return Engagement, 2017
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[International Tour]
International Premiere in Manila, 2016
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Tanghalang Pilipino Continues to Stream Theatrical Works This August

The beauty of the Filipino language takes center stage as Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) releases performances based on Philippine literature, in celebration of a?oeBuwan ng Wika.a?? These performances will stream on TP's YouTube channel.
VIDEO: First Look at BlueREP's NEXT TO NORMAL

To cap off its 28th season, Ateneo Blue Repertory (BlueREP) presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Next to Normal. The show plays at the Gonzaga Fine Arts Theatre, Ateneo De Manila University, from 6-22 March 2020, at 8 p.m. on all dates except Sundays, with additional 3 p.m. shows on weekends.
PHOTOS: First Look at Promo Shots for BlueREP's NEXT TO NORMAL

To cap off its 28th season, Ateneo Blue Repertory (BlueREP) proudly presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Next to Normal. The show plays at the Gonzaga Fine Arts Theatre, Ateneo De Manila University, from 6-22 March 2020, at 8 p.m. on all dates except Sundays, with additional 3 p.m. shows on weekends.
BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, A Fine Tribute To A Great Literary Classic

George Bernard Shaw is believed to have given his stamp of approval on one of the theater's most famous acts of defiance. He called it 'the door slam heard around the world.'
Photo Coverage: ANG LARAWAN, The Movie, Cast & Creative Team Meet the Press

Sans the female lead Joanna Ampil (Candida), who's currently part of the UK/International tour of the musical Cats, the rest of the cast and the creative team behind the stage-to-screen adaptation of Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino ( Ang Larawan ) recently met with the members of the Philippine press with one plea: urge the moviegoing public to catch the movie musical Ang Larawan during its first two days at the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), which traditionally opens on Christmas Day and runs through the holidays.
BWW Review: MATILDA Schools 'Em All

As far as our fickle adult memory is concerned, there could be very few child roles in major Broadway and West End musicals that captured our hearts: Annie, Oliver, Mary Lennox, and Dorothy. Matilda is the latest welcome addition.
Atlantis Announces Full Cast For MATILDA The Musical; Show Runs 11/10-12/10

Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group (ATEG) is excited to announce the full cast for the internationally-acclaimed musical, MATILDA, inspired by Roald Dahl's beloved book. Composed of some of the finest musical theater talents of the country, the cast is currently deep into rehearsals gearing up for a November 10th opening night at Meralco Theater in Ortigas Center.
Photo Coverage: 9th Gawad Buhay Awards Night

Now in its ninth year, Gawad Buhay Awards are the first-ever industry awards exclusively for the performing arts. The awarding ceremonies were held last night, May 10, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino.
Resorts World Manila Celebrates The Ladies of Philippine Theater

As the world celebrates the 'World Theater Day' on March 27, one of the country's top theater groups, the Full House Theater Company, under the aegis of Resorts World Manila (RWM), honors some of our female thespians who have become part of the nation's long list of theater greats. This is closely aligned with RWM's overarching goal of supporting local talents.
BWW Review: International Premiere of FUN HOME, Starring Lea Salonga, Eric Kunze

Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group's (ATEG) Manila production of the 2015 Tony© Best Musical FUN HOME opens and unravels with no fanfare: a minimalist set, a meager ensemble of ten actors, musical numbers that do not play to spectacular choreography and exploding lights, and a venue so small the performers and spectators are actually within an awkward spitting distance.
BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS by Red Turnip Theater

Nick Payne's CONSTELLATIONS has its flaws, but the humble ambition of this play, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in London in 2012, delivers beyond what you expect. It's simply quantum mechanics--full of philosophical consequences and interpretations. It will leave you thinking what would be the outcomes of what you're doing right now. Everything is relative, right?
Photo Coverage: Red Turnip Theater's RABBIT HOLE Meets the Press

The cast members of Red Turnip Theater's ('Closer,' 'Cock') second season opener, David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning play RABBIT HOLE, were introduced to the members of the press Monday, June 16, at 2nd's, Bonifacio High Street, Global City.
BWW Reviews: Asia Pacific Premiere of GHOST: The Musical

The stage of the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium at RCBC Plaza turns into a furtive arena for a courageous theatrical exploit in the Asia Pacific premiere of GHOST: The Musical, staged by Atlantis Productions and Ten Bridges Media Corporation.
Review Roundup: MGA AMA, MGA ANAK by Tanghalang Pilipino

Tanghalang Pilipino, the official theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), closes its 27th theater season with the revival of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin's 1977 three-act play MGA AMA, MGA ANAK, at the CCP's Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theatre) running now until Sunday, March 9.
GHOST to Make Asia Pacific Premiere in Manila April 2014

Atlantis Productions ('Addams Family,' 'Piaf'), whom Filipino theatergoers should thank for bringing the latest and hottest professionally licensed Broadway and London's West End shows to the Philippines for the past 15 years, will stage the Asia Pacific premiere of the Broadway and London's West End new musical GHOST on Friday, April 25, at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City, where the show will run for three weekends until Sunday, May 11.
Review Roundup: CLOSER, Red Turnip Theater's Maiden Production Venture

'Closer,' the 1999 Tony Award nominated play by Patrick Marber, opens Red Turnip's first season, which runs until Sunday, October 27 at Whitespace (2314 Chino Roces Ave. Extension, Makati City).
IBALONG, D'WONDER TWINS OF BOAC Lead Philstage Gawad Buhay! 1st/2nd-quarter Citations

Tanghalang Pilipino's "Ibalong," a dance-musical reimagining of the Bicolano epic, topped the 1st/2nd-quarter citations of the 2013 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with 15 citations in the performance and technical categories.
Stage Tube: Salonga, Geronimo, Go Lead Concert for Philippine Typhoon Victims

In between the first set of live shows for 'The Voice of the Philippines,' Broadway star turned coach Lea Salonga, her fellow 'The Voice' coach Sarah Geronimo, together with recording and theater stars Rachelle Ann Go ('The Little Mermaid,' 'Tarzan'), Jett Pangan ("Jekyll and Hyde," "Nine"), Nyoy Volante ('In the Heights,' 'Rock of Ages,'), Sitti ('Nine,' 'Spring Awakening') and Cris Villonco ('Jekyll and Hyde,' 'Walang Sugat'), performed at the benefit concert 'Jammin' for HELP' at Whitespace last Wednesday, August 28.
Photo Coverage: Salonga, Geronimo, Go Lead Concert for Philippine Typhoon Victims

In between the first set of live shows for 'The Voice of the Philippines,' Broadway star turned coach Lea Salonga, her fellow 'The Voice' coach Sarah Geronimo, together with pop and theater stars Rachelle Ann Go ('The Little Mermaid,' 'Tarzan'), Nyoy Volante ('In the Heights,' 'Rock of Ages,'), Sitti ('Nine,' 'Spring Awakening') and Cris Villonco ('Jekyll and Hyde,' 'Walang Sugat'), performed at the benefit concert 'Jammin' for HELP' at Whitespace last night.
Lea Salonga Leads Benefit Concert for Philippine Typhoon Victims, 8/28

In between the first set of live shows for 'The Voice of the Philippines,' Broadway star turned coach Lea Salonga leads a benefit concert for the victims of Typhoon Maring in the Philippines. The onslaught of the typhoon has taken the lives of 24 Filipinos; displaced almost one million residents; and destroyed an estimated PhP700 million in agricultural products and infrastructure throughout Luzon, the largest island in the country.

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