Bong Cabrera

Acting • Leyte, Philippines

Edralin "Bong" Cabrera is an award-winning film and theater actor from the Philippines. He is an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in 2010, which brought him to New York to do advanced acting studies (Viewpoints, Suzuki, Meisner, Alexander Technique, Awakening your True Voice, Improv, etc.) and observe Theater Companies (Ma-yi, SITI Company, Universes, Lamama, Public Theater,etc.) and Universities like YALE SCHOOL Of DRAMA. He also won acting awards from the Accolade Global Film Competition and URDUJA Film Festival (Best New Actor) for the film “The Sun Behind You”, Cine Filipino Festival (Best Supporting Actor) for the film “The Guerilla is a Poet”, Cinema One Originals Film Festival (Best Actor) for the film “Sa Ilalim ng Tulay” (Under the Bridge), and from GAWAD BUHAY (PHILSTAGE AWARDS) (Best Supporting Actor) for the play “The Coup”. He is one of the lead actors in the film “Leonor Will Never Die” playing RUDIE which won a Jury Prize at the WORLD CINEMA COMPETITION OF SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022, Amplfied Voices Award at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022, and other festivals around the world. Internationally, he performed in Berlin, Tokyo, Shanghai, Nagoya, Singapore, and New York. In between working and filming projects, and collaborating with his theater company, KOLAB CO., he also teaches theater classes at De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, and the Philippine High School for the Arts. Recently he’s been helping friends with casting actors in their projects, so when an international project asked him to become a casting director, he accepted the challenge and took this job as one of the jobs among other things he can do as a freelance artist. He’s currently an International Schools Theater Association (ISTA) artist and facilitates Drama workshops in ISTA theater festivals around the globe.