Filipino-born American stage designer, and illustrator
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]
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