"1972 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service, Cecile Guidote-Alvarez founded the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), which became the
production arm that implemented her concepts of theater training and dramaturgy. She received a UN Human Rights Day Award for Cultural Innovation by the
Fund for Free Expression in 1985 and the Patnubay ng Kalinangan Award from the City of Manila. She revived the TV series “Balintataw” in the 1990s, and
earned recognition from Gawad CCP, PMPC Star Awards, and is Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) Hall of Fame Awardee for Drama. Her work also earned
recognition from CNN and Time Magazine. Guidote-Alvarez now sits as the Executive Director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts ..."
(NCCA official website: http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/articles.php?artcl_Id=280 ).