Monique Wilson is an international theatre actress, director, educator, and activist from the Philippines. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of the New Voice Company (Philippines), producing
political theatre work. She also produced Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” around Asia since 2000, helping change laws on sex trafficking/domestic violence in the Philippines with performances in the Senate and Congress.
She is a recipient of numerous theatre and activism awards: TOWNS (The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service) Award, Outstanding Artist of Manila Award, Honor of the Country Award (Theatre), FAMAS Film Foundation Award, UNESCO/International Theatre Institute “Light of Culture” Lifetime Achievement Award (Theatre/Activism), St. Scholastica’s College Hildegarde Lifetime
Achievement Award (Art, Culture, Women Empowerment), Filipino Women’s Network 100 most influential Filipinas in the world, Boy Abunda LGBT Rights Award, 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy – Gender Equality (2019).
She is a member of GABRIELA (National Alliance of Grassroots Women’s Organizations/Philippines), an international spokesperson for the Purple Rose Campaign to end sex trafficking of Filipina women/children, spearheads campaigns for LILA PILIPINA comfort women group/ Philippines, performed at the 2000 Comfort Women Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, and a judge in the 2012 International Migrants Tribunal on GFMD (Global Forum on Migration and Development) finding 35 countries guilty of exploiting grassroots migrants. She had training from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, the Central School of Speech and Drama (MA in Applied Theatre and Drama Education with distinctions), and the East 15 Acting School/London. From 2008–2012, she headed and spearheaded the MA/MFA Acting International Course. From 2013 to the present, she is Global Director of One Billion Rising—a global movement to end violence against women and girls. She also has been touring the world—heading, shaping, and mobilizing anti-violence campaigns for women.