Eduardo Sicangco

Eduardo Varela Sicangco is a stage designer^[1] and illustrator for Broadway, opera, and Hollywood film.^[2] His work was widely recognized and has been included in the Lynn Pecktal book Costume Design: Techniques of Modern Masters.^[3]

Career

Eduardo Varela Sicangco was born in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.^[3] He was a student of National Artist Salvador Bernal at the Ateneo de Manila University.^[3] He later became Bernal’s protégé at the Cultural Center of the Philippines where Sicangco designed Le Carnaval for Ballet Philippines.^[3] Upon finishing an MFA in stage design at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, he was given the J.S. Seidman Award for Excellence in Design.^[3] Sicangco was a Master Teacher of Design at NYU until 2004.^[3] He has thirty-two years of scenographic work in American theaters and various international design.^[3]