Draft:Enzo Pastrano

Enzo Pastrano

Enzo Pastrano (born Enzo Miguel Pastrano December 12, 1997) is a Philippine-born singer-songwriter, actor, playwright, poet, and director. His work focuses on Theatrical Realism – a genre that often fits into social issues, featuring Philippine society’s vast inequities, evident in his catalog therewith — a sense of style, insight, substance, and a range of skill sets. Likewise, Pastrano oversees its groundwork in the grand scheme of things. By all means, Pastrano’s ingenious breadth is hugely influenced by his grandparents and loved ones who would read him stories as a child, and it has come to fruition that Pastrano’s oeuvre transfigured the tapestry apropos of the Philippine Arts in view of his themes and unconventional approach that align and preserve the country’s culture, tradition, the social, political, religious environment, and geographical location. Moreover, Pastrano has corresponded with some of the notable people in the Philippines, including some of the eminent people in Hollywood. Over the course of his life, Pastrano has penned and directed plays, and produced his own music and literary works. Being the genuine article that he is, Pastrano’s assiduity to the arts has remained indefatigable.

Early Life and Education

Enzo Miguel Pastrano was born on December 12, 1997, in Cagayan De Oro City. Pastrano began performing at the age of two and in earnest at the age of ten. Pastrano was early introduced to theatre at a very young age when he would watch shows at Rodelsa Hall. At the age of eight, Pastrano began directing mini-shows while he was still studying at Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan, whilst his love for songwriting and performing was kept under wraps till he was in high school. In 2013, Pastrano served as Art Director in the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a Lifestyle feature on a woman achiever and women’s advocate . Pastrano graduated with an award for Outstanding in Performing Arts from his secondary education in 2015.

Furthermore, the songs he wrote in college — Happy Place (2018), Exquisite (2019), and Liquor Blood (2020) — have consistently made their mark in the annual Valentine Songwriting Competition at Silliman University, the first American university in Southeast Asia. As a Speech & Theatre student there, he served as assistant stage manager for ‘Heaven as the Sea: The Ulahingan Narratives’ (2016) and ‘Streetlight Manifesto’ (2017), and then essayed the lead role of Gorio in the fantasy horror play ‘Mula sa Kulimliman’ (From the Dark; 2017). He subsequently performed in Troika (2017), an experimental love triangle he wrote. For his Creative Writing class, he penned his first Bisaya play, Sikwate (Hot Chocolate; 2019), a controversial piece which earned his work a spot in the Silliman Campus Writers Series.

His directorial debut was a crowd-pleaser production of ‘Keks & Pastries’ (2019), at Silliman’s Woodward Little Theater. In 2019, Pastrano and his acapella workshop group marveled as they were chosen by National Artist Ryan Cayabyab to perform one of his OPM classics on a rare occasion. Pastrano made his mark as the first student who wrote and performed three of his original songs with evolving genres from Ballad, Jazz to Pop, accompanied by the Silliman University Symphony Orchestra at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. And his recent directorial work on Adios, Papa! (2022) at the Gloria Laureana San Pedro Rosales Theatre, Capitol University made a mark as the first full-length play in Cagayan de Oro ever since the global outbreak, also making Pastrano the first theatre student from Silliman University who has staged a thesis play outside the campus. Pastrano finished his education at Silliman University with a degree in Bachelor of Arts Major in Speech and Theatre under the college of Performing and Visual Arts.

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