Awards and Citations
Achievements and Milestones
Testimonials
Steven Prince ‘Patrick’ C. Fernandez, DFA
Founding Artistic Director
a leading figure in Philippine Performance, Arts, and Letters, Fernandez has produced works that span over four decades—anthologized, published, and widely acknowledged.
Transcreation and Distillation, Performance Principles he has developed, has been widely-acknowledged in dance and performance pedagogy. Besides these are numerous articles, essays, and books published here and abroad on his dramaturgy.
His “Ramayana” drew raves in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangkok, and Singapore, one of over 50 full-feature productions. Several of his works have been acclaimed in over a hundred cities in Europe, the US Mainland, Pacific, and Asia through his Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG), the country’s most-travelled repertory company.
He founded the pioneering Culture and Arts Studies Program at the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology where he is Full Professor.
As Visiting Professor and Culture-Performance Studies specialist, he lectures in Philippine universities and abroad keynoting various national and international conferences. He has lectured in Sharjah, Shanghai, Bangkok, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh, Yogyakarta, and Taipei, and had been awarded Fellowships to Sweden, Japan, and the U.S. (He trained in Theatre Anthropology under Eugenio Barba.)
Listed in the Cambridge International Biographic Centre’s 2001 edition of Who’s Who in the World (1st edition), the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (1st edition), he is also featured as “Defender of our Heritage,” Fookien Times’ Philippine Yearbook, and the first and latest editions of the CCP Encyclopedia of the Arts.
He won the Palanca twice, CCP Gantimpala, U.P. Likhaan, and was conferred with the CCP Gador, CCP Pilak, Fr. Francisco Demetrio, and SM Global Pinoy awards. The Writers Union of the Philippines (UMPIL) presented him with the Francisco Balagtas Award in both English and Filipino preceding the Gawad Pedro Bucaneg which was conferred to the IPAG.
The CCP conferred the IPAG with the highest distinction in the 2020 Gawad CCP para sa Sining.
