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Salvador F. Bernal was a renowned Filipino theater designer born in 1945 in Dagupan City. He earned a philosophy degree from Ateneo de Manila where he later taught. Bernal shared his skills through teaching and programs he created, designing over 300 productions using indigenous materials. He helped found the CCP's Production Design Center and was known for groundbreaking sets recreating prewar Manila. Bernal received the National Artist award and was called the "Father of Philippine Stage Design" before passing away from cardiac arrest in 2011 at the age of 66.

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Salvador F. Bernal was a renowned Filipino theater designer born in 1945 in Dagupan City. He earned a philosophy degree from Ateneo de Manila where he later taught. Bernal shared his skills through teaching and programs he created, designing over 300 productions using indigenous materials. He helped found the CCP's Production Design Center and was known for groundbreaking sets recreating prewar Manila. Bernal received the National Artist award and was called the "Father of Philippine Stage Design" before passing away from cardiac arrest in 2011 at the age of 66.

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Ryza Jane Marie A.

Flores
G12 – Mercury
CPAR

Salvador F. Bernal Biography

An acknowledged guru of contemporary Filipino theater design;


is no other than Bernal or Salvador F. Bernal. He was born on
January 07, 1945 in Dagupan City and earned a philosophy
degree in 1966 from the Ateneo de Manila where he would later
teach literature and stage design.
Bernal shared his skills with younger designers through his
classes at the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de
Manila University, and through the programs he created for the
CCP Production Design Center which he himself conceptualized
and organized.

Starting in 1969, Bernal designed more than 300 productions for drama, musicals,
operas and concerts. He was known for using indigenous and locally available materials
for his stage designs, such as bamboo, abaca fabric, twice-raw hemp and rattan chain
links.

He joined the CCP in 1987 as director for production design, later founding the CCP’s
world-class Production Design Center.

Among his groundbreaking designs for the theater was the sets he did for  “Dalagang
Bukid” by Hermogenes  Ilagan, where he recreated prewar Manila rendered in Art
Nouveau, complete with a full-scale, working tranvia..

Salvador Floro Bernal, a National Artist for theater design, whose groundbreaking work
for the Philippine stage earned him the title “Father of Philippine Stage Design,” has
died. He was then 66.
Bernal died peacefully in his sleep at noon Wednesday at the St. Luke’s Hospital, from
a cardiac arrest brought about by a diabetic condition.

Before his death, Bernal was working on the design for “King Lear” with the Philippine
Educational Theater Association (Peta).

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