Roger
Federico is an English Lecturer at the College of Local Administration. He
completed his Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication at the University of
Baguio in 2014, and recently obtained his Master's degree in Theatre Arts from
the University of the Philippines-Diliman in 2021. While studying at UP, he received the Continuous
Operational and Outcomes-based Partnership for Excellence in Research and
Academic Training Enhancement (COOPERATE) grant and was sent to Flinders
University in South Australia as a Visiting Student Scholar for almost nine
months. While at Flinders University, his research topic, "Performing
Community at the Lang-ay Festival of the Cordillera Administrative Region:
Theatre in the Nation, Nation in the Theatre," which is an ethnographic
study of the Lang-ay Festival staged in the Mountain Province held annually
every April, was among the few research topics featured on the website of
Flinders University.
His
research interests include cultural performances, oral traditions, and
Indigenous Knowledge, Systems, and Practices (IKSP) among ethnolinguistic
groups in the Cordillera Administrative Region. His research "Challenges
and Discoveries in Conducting Community-based Theatre Workshop in the Time of
Pandemic" is found in the book Folktales published by
Cordillera Green Network with support from Asia Center Japan Foundation.
Roger
is also a community-based performance-maker and filmmaker. He has traveled to
other countries in Asia, performing and participating in theatre festivals and
conferences.
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