Dennis finished his doctoral candidate of Applied Theatre at the University of Victoria. His research explores how ritual performances and human settlements are affected by the onslaught of modernities and colonialism that are entangled with climate crises. He obtained an MFA Theatre (Directing) degree from the University of British Columbia and an MA Theatre Arts at theUniversity of the Philippines. His intercultural theatre works were exhibited in North America and Southeast Asia. Among his theatre projects are the works of Euripides, Brian Friel, John Millington Synge, Frank Wedekind, Jose Rizal Aurelio Tolentino, and Reagan Maiquez. He received a scholarship from the Indonesian government to study seni theatre and traditional mask dance (topeng) at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (STSI) in Bandung. The Asian Cultural Council’s Rockefeller Brothers Fund awarded him a fellowship to undertake a director-in-residence program in New York City, where he participated in and observed contemporary theatre directing process with Ma-Yi Theatre Co., National Asian American Theatre Co., and The Juilliard Drama School.

Dennis is also a Fellow of The Philippines’ 21, awarded by the Asia Society. He received grant support from the World Bank/Australian Agency for International Development, the Canada Council for the Arts, ASEAN Center for Biodiversity, University of the Philippines, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and various local government agencies in the Philippines. He is an artistic associate of the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Society (SEACHS) based in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2016, he was included as one of the laureates of Performance Studies international’s Dwight Conquergood Award and the following year he was awarded the Ada Slaight Drama-in-Education Award of the Young People’s Theatre Toronto and The Slaight Family Foundation. Dennis is profiled in The Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Arts (Theatre, Second Volume) for his contribution as a theatre director to the Philippines theatre. Dennis is a Vanier Scholar. He currently teaches at University of Winnipeg.