Maria Celine L. Cantos is a graduate of Bulacan State University with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Theater. A multidisciplinary artist—actress, director, playwright, and designer—she has earned recognition both locally and internationally. She starred in Fifty-Fifty, a student short film nominated at the Metro Manila Film Festival, which later premiered at Seattle’s National Film Festival for Talented Youth. Currently, she works as a production designer with Burning Bush Film for the short film Nung Nagpaburn Kami ng CD and co-founded Silab Alon Collective, a youth-led theater group based in Malolos, Bulacan.