<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Severino Montano (1915 in Laoag, Ilocos Norte--12 December 1980) is considered as one of the Titans of Philippine Theater . He was a playwright, director, actor and theater organizer with an output of one novel, 150 poems and 50 plays in his 65 - year lifetime . Through the foundation of the Arena Theater, Montano institutionalized "legitimate theater" in the Philippines . He also have lifetime achievement award as part of National Artist of the Philippines . </P> <P> Academically, Montano started his tutelage under a British mentor, Marie Leslie Prising, when he was thirteen . He studied at the University of the Philippines . She took Montano under her wing and endowed him with Western literature, the theater and Shakespeare . He was part of the UP Stage when he studied in the University of the Philippines . Then a scholarship took him to the famous "English 47" or "Workshop 47" playwriting workshops of George Pierce Baker at Yale University and guided by Broadway names and international personalities like Komissarjevsky of the famous Moscow Art Theater . He was conferred a Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting and production by Yale University . </P>

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