HERBIE GO

Herbie is a Filipino actor, theater director and drama teacher. He graduated cum laude with a degree in Theater Arts from the University of the Philippines. From 1990 to 1994, he trained as an actor with the prestigious Actors' Company of Tanghalang Pilipino (TP), the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. With TP, he appeared in more than two dozen productions. He was also a Theater Arts Instructor at the Philippine High School for the Arts, a specialized public school for the artistically gifted youth (1997-2006). He rejoined Tanghalang Pilipino in 2002 to become the company's Artistic Director, and ever since then, he has become one of the most exciting young directors in the Philippines. Most notable of his productions are R'meo Luvs Dew-lhiett (a Filipino adaptation of Shakespeare's play), Capek's R.U.R., Pirandello's It Is So! (If You Think So), and Shakespeare's Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra. He was one of the 16 Asian theater directors who collaborated in the Asian Contemporary Theater Project under the Setagaya Public Theater in Tokyo, Japan. He most recently appeared in International WOW!'s Reconstruction at the Ohio.