Cecilia I. Gaerlan
Cecilia Gaerlan is a Bay Area playwright based in Berkeley, California. She received an Honorable Mention in the Stage Play Script Category of the Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition in 2005 for her play The Hand of God (about St. Francis of Assisi) and in 2010 for her play Magnus Laurent (Lorenzo de Medici). She is the founder of Artis Mundi, a multicultural theatre arts group dedicated to the production of original works.
She is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CASH Award in 2002 for her play, Brilliance within the Darkness, about the blind Spanish composer, Joaquin Rodrigo (composer of the guitar masterpiece Concierto de Aranjuez.) She is the author of several plays on a wide variety of topics such as the United Nations (commissioned by City College of San Francisco for the U. N.'s 50th anniversary), child prostitution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She has recently adapted for the stage, In Her Mother's Image, her debut novel about a mother and daughter set in the Philippines during World War II. During the past year she has been creating awareness of the Fall of Bataan and the Bataan Death March in a series of lectures.
In addition to being a playwright and novelist, Cecilia is also an experienced travel organizer. She has been organizing bicycle trips in the US and Europe since 1987. She also designs jewelry under Bijoux de Cecile.
She is married to Jeff Shuttleworth, a News Reporter for Bay City News Service, who is her source of unwavering inspiration and support.
You may contact her at info@ceciliagaerlan.com.
See In Her Mother's Image (HD) on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7Ge4JuOJg&context=C3d481c8ADOEgsToPDskIJyEiY4T1LmQbefuTANtzG
She is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CASH Award in 2002 for her play, Brilliance within the Darkness, about the blind Spanish composer, Joaquin Rodrigo (composer of the guitar masterpiece Concierto de Aranjuez.) She is the author of several plays on a wide variety of topics such as the United Nations (commissioned by City College of San Francisco for the U. N.'s 50th anniversary), child prostitution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She has recently adapted for the stage, In Her Mother's Image, her debut novel about a mother and daughter set in the Philippines during World War II. During the past year she has been creating awareness of the Fall of Bataan and the Bataan Death March in a series of lectures.
In addition to being a playwright and novelist, Cecilia is also an experienced travel organizer. She has been organizing bicycle trips in the US and Europe since 1987. She also designs jewelry under Bijoux de Cecile.
She is married to Jeff Shuttleworth, a News Reporter for Bay City News Service, who is her source of unwavering inspiration and support.
You may contact her at info@ceciliagaerlan.com.
See In Her Mother's Image (HD) on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7Ge4JuOJg&context=C3d481c8ADOEgsToPDskIJyEiY4T1LmQbefuTANtzG