Sir Anril Pineda TIATCO <sptiatco@up.edu.ph> earned his PhD in Theatre Studies from the National University of Singapore. He was a visiting scholar at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, the University of Manchester in 2012 - 2013. He also underwent a research fellowship in New York City as an Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Fellow where he observed NYC's dramaturgical practice through the New York Theatre Workshop's Mind the Gap and Casebook programs, a course audit at the City University of New York (under Prof. Peter Eckersall's mentorship), and through the dramaturgical works of the Beehive Dramaturgy in 2025.  His essays have appeared in Critical Stages/Scènes Critique, Harmmonia Journal, Journal of Homosexuality, Tourism Management Perspectives, Asian Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, JATI: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Kritika Kultura, Social Science Diliman, Philippine Humanities Review, Modern Drama, Contemporary Theatre Review, Comunicazioni Sociali, and Humanities Diliman. He is the author of Buhol-Buhol/Entanglement: Contemporary Theatre in Metropolitan Manila (Peter Lang, 2017), Entablado: Theatres and Performances in the Philippines (University of the Philippines Press, 2015), the National Book Award 2017 Finalist for Best Book on Art Performing Catholicism: Faith and Theatre in a Philippine Province (also from the University of the Philippines Press, 2016), and the National Book Award 2019 Winner (Best Book on Art) Cosmopolitanism, Theatre, and the Philippines: Performing Community in a World of Strangers (University of the Philippines Press, 2018). Tiatco is an associate editor of Humanities Diliman (Scopus), a contributing editor of Theatre Research International (Scopus and Clarivate), and one of the editors of Contemporary Theatre Review (Scopus and Clarivate). His recent dramaturgical works include Joshua Lim So's Sa Gitna ng Digmaan ng mga Mahiwagang Nilalang Laban sa Sangkatauhan (2025) and Rody Vera and Maynard Manansala's Kung Paano Nanalo ng Karera si Rosang Taba (2023 and 2024). In 2024, he was one of the dramaturgs and devisers of Pumpon ng mga Gunita / Bouquet of Reminiscences,  a site-specific and documentary performance about Jose Rizal's fascination and admiration for Germany, staged in Wilhemsfeld, Germany, where he wrote the final chapter of his novel Noli me Tangere. A professor (Professor 6) of dramaturgy and peformance research from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts and conferred upon him the title University Artist (UP Artist II) under the UP Artist Productivity System Award (2014–present), Tiatco was recognized by the Department of Science and Technology National Research Council of the Philippines as its 2021 Achievement Awardee in the Humanities. He was Director of the UP Diliman Information Office (2014 - 2020, under Chancellor Michale Lim Tan; 2020 - 2021 under Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo), Director of the UP Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (2016 - 2018), and the Chairperson of the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (2021 - 2023), and the immediate past Assistant University Registrar from 2023 to 2024. Immediately after his ACC fellowship, he was appointed Director of Diliman Information Office under Chancellor Edgardo Carlo Vistan.