Information Systems student and The Xavier Stage actor Kristen Senajon has been accepted as fellow for the Virgin Labfest 8 Writing Fellowship Program of the Cultural Center of the Philippines from June 26 to July 8.

For two weeks, Senajon will participate in lectures, script critiquing and writing sessions, and interact with known playwrights, directors and selected actors. She will be trained in dramatic writing along with nine other participants from the University of the Philippines in Diliman and Manila, Ateneo de Manila University, University of Sto Tomas and University College London.

The Virgin Labfest is an esteemed annual festival of “unpublished, unstaged, untried and untested works of playwrights, directors and actors.” Over the years, it has produced plays that have been recognized by the Palanca Awards for Literature.

Senajon has also participated in 19th Iligan National Writers Workshop sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts held in May this year.