25 Facts About Rolando Tinio

Rolando Santos Tinio was a Filipino poet, dramatist, director, actor, critic, essayist and educator.

Rolando Tinio was a Philippine National Artist for Theater and Literature.

Rolando Tinio was born in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila on March 5,1937.

Rolando Tinio was an active participant in the Filipino movie industry and enjoyed working with Philippine celebrities who he himself had admired in his childhood.

Rolando Tinio is often described as a religious, well-behaved and gifted person.

In Iowa, Rolando Tinio was known as a great writer that used English as the medium of the Filipino writer.

Rolando Tinio wrote his poetic collection: Rage and Ritual which won an award from the University of the Philippines.

At this point in time, Rolando Tinio believed that only English can hone the themes that he wanted to communicate in his works.

Rolando Tinio was the sole inventor of "Taglish" in Philippine poetry.

In 1972, Rolando Tinio wrote another poetry collection, Sitsit sa Kuliglig, and this showed the great contrast between his old and new advocacy.

Rolando Tinio was an actor, director, and a set and costume designer.

Rolando Tinio served all these roles during his stay with the Ateneo Experimental Theater.

Rolando Tinio chose the plays, designs the stage, directs, creates the costumes and determines the musical score and other sounds.

The production was performed in a classroom rather than an auditorium and Rolando Tinio made the actors mingle freely with the audience.

Rolando Tinio published four seminal books of poems between 1972 and 1993, in which, along with his longtime friend, Bienvenido Lumbera, helped modernize the traditionally sentimental Filipino style.

Rolando Tinio had worked on his own projects such as the Ateneo Experimental Theater productions and other serious dramas in Filipino.

Rolando Tinio's contributions include establishing the Filipino Department of Ateneo de Manila.

Circa 1976, Rolando Tinio wrote the lyrics for the six hymns of the "Misa ng Alay-Kapwa", the music for which was composed by Fr.

Rolando Santos Tinio was directing a musical when he suffered a heart attack in Manila on July 7,1997.

Rolando Tinio was survived by his two children, Antonio and Victoria.

Rolando Tinio was known for translating Western classics, which includes the works of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Puccini and Verdi, into Tagalog.

Rolando Tinio did these translations in order to advance the Filipino language.

Rolando Tinio was a prolific poet and writer who helped establish the Filipino-language drama in the 1970s.

Rolando Tinio was made a National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Literature in 1997.

Rolando Tinio was related to Manuel Rolando Tinio, a Tagalog revolutionary general who fought in the Ilocos during the Philippine-American War.