4-YEAR BACHELOR OF ARTS

CHED ACCREDITATION: G.R. 078, Series of 2015

KEY SUBJECTS

All the world’s a stage, and all our students are skilled, creative professionals. They are content creators for the theatre, as well as the whole range of media platforms in today’s entertainment industry. Our Theatre Arts program boasts a colorful cast of characters as local thespians with global experience mentor our students for success through an interdisciplinary that merges arts, business, and technology.

Our program includes a multitude of opportunities for our students to create, produce, and perform at an industry level, showcasing to theatrical practitioners and casting directors. We ensure that our students develop the technical skills, creative vision, and the collaborative aptitude necessary to thrive in the industry.

• Acting

• Musical Theater

• Costume and Make-up

• Improvisation

• Stage Production

• Solo and Choral Singing

Our Performing Arts team of educators are collectively experienced in the local and international theatrical industries. Through intense mentorship with a conservatory approach, MINT develops performing arts students into all-rounders at the real stage.

Dennis Marisigan, Program Head. Dennis brings with him rich experiences as an actor, screenwriter, director, and producer for both theatre and cinema. He has been twice awarded the esteemed Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Ang Buhay ay Pelikula (Full Length Play, 1998) and Joy (Screenplay, 2008), as well as the 2018 Gawad Buhay for Outstanding Stage Direction for a Play for Ang Pag-uusig, a Filipino translation of Arthur Miller’s classic, The Crucible.

Nelsito Gomez, Acting, History and Shakespearean Instructor. Nelsito is a theater and film actor, director, host, and educator. He is also the founder of CAST - The Company of Actors in Streamlined Theatre, whose mission is to present a season of staged readings: four plays, once a week, for four consecutive weeks, annually.

His acting resume includes the TV series “Call Me Tita” (2019), “Emir” (2019), “Baka Bukas” (2016), and “Click, Like, Share” (2022), which was also a TV series. With Paolo Valenciano as the director, Nelsito worked as the associate director for the 2020 Trumpets’ production of “Joseph the Dreamer”, whose star-studded cast include Sam Concepcion, Audie Gemora, and Bituin Escalante, to name a few. Currently, he is the stage director for CAST’s production of “Othello” which opens on October 2024.

Sarah Monay. She is a Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) Actors Company Scholar and the Linkages Head of its Education Committee. Her theater credits include Guelan Varela-Luarca’s “Nekropolis”, "Ang Pag-uusig" (2023), and "The Crucible", which was directed by Dennis Marasigan, our Performing arts Program Head. She also recently took part in The Virgin LabFest 18 staged reading of U Eliserio’s “Sinong Pumatay kay Mr. Masangkay?” as Nora Masangkay, directed by Rolando Inocencio.

Sarah also ventured into playwriting, which started when she was commissioned by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. with Glenn Mas as her mentor. Through her pedagogy, theater practice, and community involvements, she also an enthusiastic advocate for youth mobilization, community development, and voters’ education.

Jeremy Domingo. A veteran in the theatre industry and a graduate of University of the Philippines, Jeremy is an exceptional theater and voice actor, as well as a host. Recently, he has been announced as the new artistic director for Repertory Philippines, where he has been working as an actor for more than three decades.

His impressive credentials include being a television presenter for Disney Channel-Asia in the early 2000s, a radio announcer at 96.3 DWRK FM, the founder and artistic director of Galleon Theatre.MNL, and a resident voice-over announcer at Studio 23.

Jeremy has been working as a Theater Arts professor here at MINT College since 2013, teaching and empowering our budding talents to eventually grace the professional stage.

Paolo O’Hara. He is another esteemed individual in acting, theater, and film industry. As an actor, he has over thirty credits to his name, including “Road Trip” (2024). “GomBurZa” (2023), “Ang Duyan ng Magiting” (2023), “Tenement 66” (2021), “Liway” (2018), and the popular romantic TV series “On the Wings of Love” (2015-2016).

Besides that, he has directed the film called “Working Boys 2: Choose Your Papa” (2023), which was inspired by TVJ’s “Working Boys” in 1986. He also wrote and directed “The Babysitters” (2014"), “The Deafening Darkness” (2014), and “The Houseband’s Wife” (2013).

In theater, Paolo has acted in classics by Beckett and Shakespeare, as well as contemporary musicals such as “Ang Huling El Bimbo”. With that, he has shown great versatility and acting chops, as well as an eye and vision while spearheading projects throughout the years.

OPPA Foundation Scholarship Program
In line with the Original Pilipino Performing Art (OPPA) Foundation’s mission to elevate the local performing arts scene, and with their trust in the quality of MINT College’s Theatre Arts Program, we are proud to announce that we are a partner institution officially covered by the OPPA Foundation Scholarship Program.

The scholarship is open to current MINT College Theatre Arts students, and is awarded at the discretion of, and by, the OPPA Foundation. For more details, visit www.oppafoundation.org.