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Rhenz. Bibingka. Music. Video Games. Theater.
Rhenz’s fascination for theatre and music started during his elementary days in Aurora A. Quezon Elementary School where he was part of the Speech & Drama and Glee Clubs as per his teachers’ recommendations. But he would cut lessons to play video games at the Harrison Plaza in Malate near the school. He was an ordinary Malate boy who would sell
bibingka and
gelatin on his spare time to have money for baon or to buy text or rubber bands or coke (for his
Pog Pak and Coca Cola Card Collection) or to play his favorite video games. He loved to play in the streets.
High school was a repressing experience for him. Being a special science class student, he was not allowed to join the Glee Club nor the Theater Group. To compensate for this, he resorted to singing in the bathroom, imitating TV personalities and cartoon characters’ voices, and playing Starcraft and Warcraft.
At the University of Asia and the Pacific, he started get more serious. He now played mature roles – as Terrorist or Counter-Terrorist with his [ThunderCats] Clan in Counterstrike. He was mostly known as WilyCaT or tSiNeLaS. But despite his addiction to video games, his passion for the arts never died. He would sing while giving his opponent a headshot. He was a member of the university chorale from 2000 to 2007.
It wasn’t until 2003, his senior year in UA&P, that he allowed himself to be immersed in theatre productions, mostly under Kultura. It was that year when he landed the role of
Ted Sison in the production of
Ang Mga Kahon by Rolando S. Tinio. This was followed by his amusing portrayal of
Petr Ivanovich Bobchinsky in Christian Vallez’s tagalog translation of Nikolai Gogol’s
The Inspector General and as
Fred Narracott in Agatha Christie’s
Ten Little Indians both in 2004.
In 2005, he took a break from the stage and decided to give the production side of theatre a try as a technical crew in
Clytemnestra.
Rhenz’s theatre involvement hit its peak in 2006 when he appeared on stage in the Kultura production of William Shakespeare’s
The Comedy of Errors as
Dromio of Ephesus. Shortly after, he was cast as
Jigs in the Palanca Award winning one-act play,
Twenty Questions written and directed by Juan Ekis under A.S.T.I.G. Foundation Inc. It was also in the same year when he first got involved with ViARE where he played the role of
Judge Heath in Ayn Rand’s courtroom drama,
Night of January 16th.
He found himself back on stage in August 2007 under ViARE’s production of On Dancing, Love and Cigarettes as
Eric in
The Man Who Couldn’t Dance.
Early this year, Rhenz appeared in Kultura’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s
Pygmalion as
Freddy Eynsford-Hill.
He would love to go back to his childhood and play in the streets again. Instead, Rhenz found himself playing in another avenue. He reprises his role as
Jigs in ACASIA and ASTIG’s joint production of Juan Ekis’s
Twenty Questions – one of his all-time favorite plays.
PAST EVENTSKultura Young Artists Series Presents Christopher Ong! - January 29, 2009
Twenty Questions by Juan Ekis (ONE NIGHT ONLY) - February 20, 2009
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown - February 27 - March 8, 2009
Watchout for ACASIA's UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS!