Cecilia Ilano Gaerlan

Cecilia Gaerlan, born in the Philippines, is a Bay Area playwright based in Berkeley, California. She is the founder of the multicultural theatre arts group Artis Mundi. She received an Honorable Mention in the Stage Play Script Category of the Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition in 2005 for The Hand of God and in 2010 for Magnus Laurent (Lorenzo de Medici). She is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CASH Award in 2002 for her play, Brilliance within the Darkness which is about the blind Spanish composer, Joaquin Rodrigo, the composer of the guitar masterpiece Concierto de Aranjuez. She is the author of several other 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, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, etc. In Her Mother's Image is her debut novel and she has recently adapted it for the stage. www.ceciliagaerlan.com

See "In Her Mother's Image" on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7Ge4JuOJg&context=C3d481c8ADOEgsToPDskIJyEiY4T1LmQbefuTANtzG