Riley Palanca

Riley Palanca, professionally known as Revan Badingham III, is a playwright, producer, and director based in Montreal. They graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BA in Creative Writing before immigrating to Canada and founding the independent theatre company Voices of Asia International, which has produced work from Newfoundland to British Columbia. With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, their last production, "Would Virginia Woolf Contemplate Suicide if She Were Filipino?" premiered at the 2022 Montreal Fringe Festival, winning the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s “Most Promising English Text” Frankie award, placing as a runner-up for BroadwayWorld Montreal’s “Best New Play or Musical,” and receiving an honourable mention in Infinithéâtre’s Write-on-Q Competition. Since then, it has been performed at festivals such as the Pipeline Festival, the undercurrents Festival in Ottawa, and the rEvolver Festival in Vancouver. “Liham,” the song cycle they wrote exploring the strained relationship of Filipinos in Canada with both their homeland and their adopted country, had its world premiere at New York’s MISE-EN New Music Festival this June. Recently the inaugural recipient of Geordie Theatre's Mike Payette Mentorship Program in Artistic Direction, a commissioned playwright for Theatre of the Beat's 2024 Emerging Producers Festival, and a member of MA-I Theatre’s upcoming 2025 Alliance cohort, they are also a spoken word artist, published novelist, and cultural worker at the Quebec Writers’ Federation.