LIESL BATUCAN IS REP’S NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Repertory Philippines (Rep), one of the country’s leading theater companies, has appointed Liesl Batucan as its new artistic director, following in the footsteps of theater stalwarts Zeneida “Bibot” Amador, Baby Barredo and Joy Virata.
Batucan returned to Rep as its managing director in 2018. Prior, she was the associate artistic director of Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
As one of the Rep’s celebrated alumna, Batucan has performed in over 100 plays, while extensively training under Amador and Barredo for over 20 years.
Batucan is also an Aliw Award Hall of Famer as well as a two-time Gawad Buhay awardee. She has performed offBroadway at the La Mama Theater in New York and in various international musical shows.
She graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines and served as a corporate finance consultant at SGV & Co. before pursuing a career in theater.
She assumed her new role at Rep in June, as the company prepares “The Quest for the Adarna,” an original Rep’s Theater for Young Audiences play that will open Sept. 14.