Our Island of the Mangrove Moons

Internationally recognized for his work that often challenges convention, stunning visual poetry, and language in space, playwright and director Anton Juan is a Professor and Theatre director at the University of Notre Dame. Recently, he earned the Reinhold Niebuhr Award for his body of work committed to social justice. He completed his PhD in Semiotics at the Kapodistrian and Panhellenic University of Athens. To honour his contributions to the arts, Juan has been knighted twice by the French government, receiving the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1992 and the Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Merit in 2002. He received the Alexander Onassis International Award for Theatre (Playwriting), and the Special Jury Prize for Screenplay from the CineManila International Film Festival. Beyond his work at Notre Dame, Juan is also the founding Artistic Director of the Step of Angels Theatre in Athens, Greece and was the Director-General of Dulaang UP, University of the Philippines, where he has taught at the Departments of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, English and Comparative Literature, and European Languages. He was also the Fellow for Drama at the Creative Writing Center of UP. His previous film, "Woven Wings of Our Children", was included in "A Window on Asian Cinema" section of the Busan International Film Festival.