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Daisy B. Ba-ad is a playwright, stage director, composer,
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based in
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, Philippines. She is a Masscom graduate of St. Theresa's College, Cebu City given a special award for Outstanding Performance in Theater Arts. Trained under professional directors Laurice Guillen,
Gina Alajar Regina Liguid Alatiit (born June 28, 1959), professionally known as Gina Alajar (), is a FAMAS and Gaward Urian Award winning Filipino film and television actress and television director. Career Since appearing as a child actress in the earl ...
, Leo Martinez and New York acting coach Eric Morris, she is currently artistic and training director of Out of the Box Training and Productions. She also designed and mentored the Photographic/Commercial Modeling program of Fashion TV Model School based in the city. Her most popular original Cebuano musical entitled ''Tall Tales Kuno!'', grant awardee of the
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under their program for Artistic Excellence, has been staged by various organizations in Cebu. Her most recent directorial work is an original musical in English written by
Jude Gitamondoc Jude Gitamondoc (complete name Jude Thaddeus Gitamondoc) is a Filipino songwriter, record producer, and musical director based in Cebu, Philippines. He had won several awards including two Awit Awards, ABS-CBN's Himig Handog TFC Choice Award, ...
entitled Siddhartha: A Musical Journey to Enlightenment produced by Buddha's Light International Association - Cebu Chapter. Its successful run at the Waterfront Pacific Ballroom, on June 6, 2007, and at the main theater of the
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, on November 3 and 4, 2007, has paved the way for the production to be brought to Taiwan touring the cities of Taipei and Kaoshiung. Plans are underway for the Siddhartha musical to be toured in Europe, the US, Australia and Beijing China. Her latest directorial job was Zephryin Namuncura: The Musical, written by Jude Gitamondoc, for Don Bosco Cebu in celebration of the beatification of
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. Ba-ad is also known to have successfully used theater games in training programs she has designed for corporate groups. Her clients include Aboitiz Group of Companies, Arts Council of Cebu, Ayala Land,
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Background

Daisy Ba-ad was born in Cebu City, Philippines on March 31, 1961, and is the second to the youngest in a family of nine. Her parents Melda and Domingo Ba-ad already saw the potential in her as a child. She was dubbed as the entertainer of the family at the age of four because of her ability to dance and sing upon request. Her first exposure to theater began in kindergarten where she played support and lead roles. Her high school days were focused on developing her skills in oration, declamation, acting, singing and song composition. She was awarded a Department Medal upon graduation. As a freshman in college taking up Mass Communications, she was voted to direct the freshman's entry to the school's Drama Festival with
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Wilfrido María Guerrero (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been published. His unpublished plays have either been broadcast on the rad ...

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They won five out of six awards including best director and best production - a first in the school's history that the freshman year would win over higher years and winning most of the awards at the same time. Daisy became more active in college as she moved on to writing poetry and short skits for class or for official school activities and directed them. She became known as the
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of the school with her lip synchronization acts of Streisand's Minute Waltz, I'm Five, Jingle Bells and the like. She also won declamation and songwriting competitions during her college days. In fact, for two successive years, she brought home the grand prize for the English and Tagalog categories of the Declamation Contest included in Inter-School Annual Literary-Musical Festival in the city. She was later given a scholarship to the Philippine Educational Theater Association'
(PETA)
Integrated Arts Workshop in Manila. She was also offered to be the moderator of the high school drama club while in her sophomore year in college. This event gave her the opportunity to start designing training modules and writing full length plays. She was the chair of STC Bantawan theater group all throughout college and popularized the "dula-tula" form of Philippine theater in Cebu City.


Noted directorial works

* SIDDHARTHA, A Musical Journey to Enlightenment *ZEPHRYIN, The Musical * AYALA CEBU HOLDINGS INC., Kick Off Corporate Rally *THE
GODSPELL ''Godspell'' is a musical composed by Stephen Schwartz with book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional hy ...
TAKES, Musical Culminating Activity *
THE WIZ ''The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz"'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's children's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' ...
REVUE, Musical Culminating Activity *DREAMS, Broadway Excerpts * KADAUGAN SA MACTAN: The Reenactment, A Festival Presentation *EVERAFTER, Culminating Activity *THE WORLD IS A STAGE, Culminating Activity *CIRQUE DU CEBU, Cebu X Awards Night * THE FIRST MANTAWI FESTIVAL *
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES ''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores c ...
wit
Monique Wilson
(2002 & 2004) *GOD IN MOTION, A Musical Celebrating the 50TH Year of the Salesian Community *
MAN OF LA MANCHA ''Man of La Mancha'' is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay '' I, Don Quixote'', which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cerva ...
- Entry to the Festival of the Arts of the Arts Council of Cebu *FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS LAUNCHING, Arts Council of Cebu Foundation Inc. *SAN CARLOS: THE MUSICALE *TALL TALES!, A Daisy Ba-ad Original Musical *COMING HOME, A Musical Play *SHAKESPEAREAN RHAPSODY, Center for Intl. Education *PANAW SA KAGAHAPON, LIVE DIORAMA, Cebu Holdings Inc. & Ayala Center Cebu * THE KING & I, Toastmasters Cebu *BINHI SA STO. NINO, DANCE DRAMA, Cebu Holdings Inc. & Ayala Center Cebu *
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF ''Fiddler on the Roof'' is a musical theatre, musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and musical theatre#Book musicals, book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Russian Empire, Imperial Russia in or around 190 ...
, Toastmasters Cebu * LES MISERABLES Concert *LEON KILAT, A Musical Cebuano Play *SA MALIPAT LANG, a Cebuano adaptation of
The Fantasticks ''The Fantasticks'' is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play ''The Romancers'' (''Les Romanesques'') by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neigh ...


References

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