The UE Drama Company (UEDC), through its one-act play ‘Auratel: We Kriyeyt Istoris’ that was written and directed by UE graduate and UEDC Director Mark Norman Boquiren, won three of the top awards at the recently concluded 2024 PhilStagers Theater Festival!

The play was awarded Best Script, Best Male Performer (Orveil John Day-yo, 2nd Yr., BS Civil Engineering-UE CEng’g Manila), and a Jury Award (Mark Norman Boquiren).

It also received nominations for Best Play, Best Director, and Best Female Performer (Keanne Jodie Zulueta, 3rd Yr., BS Accountancy, UE CBA Caloocan).

The 2024 PhilStagers Theater Festival is made possible by the Philippine Stagers Foundation (PSF), a multi-awarded non-stock, non-profit theater company that tours different performances nationwide.

The awarding was held last July 20, 2024, at the PSF Blackbox Theater.

‘Auratel’ is a one-act play that is a farce set in a three-star urban hotel with a front-desk clerk aspiring to be the image model of her workplace, a dream that is questioned by the hotel’s security guard. That dream gets complicated with the arrival of their highly unusual hotel guests: a provincial politician, his public relations officer, and the politician’s stepsister. Later, their secrets are unveiled and the situation gets crazier.

Other UEDC members involved in this production as cast and crew are: Alexandrea Gonzales (4th Yr., BS Management Accountancy, CBA Cal.), Joervy De Vera (2nd Yr., BS Computer Engineering, CEng’g Mla.), Mikhail Andrew Fernandez (2nd Yr., AB Broadcasting, CAS Mla.), Christian Lee D. Dote (2nd Yr., BA Broadcasting, CAS Mla.), Jane Mae Marzan (2nd Yr., BS Psychology, CAS Mla.), and Edrian Miguel Samson (2nd Yr., BS 2nd Yr., BSEMC-Digital Animation, CCSS).

The UEDC is the official student-theater organization of the University of the East, under the UE Office of Cultural Affairs.

Congratulations and kudos, Warrior Dramatist, Artists and Thespians!

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