Rodolfo C. Vera (born December 5, 1960[1]), commonly known as Rody Vera, is a Filipino playwright, theater actor, and director.

Vera was affiliated with the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) as a theater actor and artistic director.[2]

As a playwright, Vera wrote more than 25 original plays, 10 of which have won Palanca Awards. He has also adopted and translated 20 foreign-language plays into Filipino such as Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Jean Genet's The Maids, and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard[3] He is also a Palanca Awards Hall of Fame inductee.[4]

He also wrote lyrics of various liturgical protest songs.[4]

He was awarded the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi in 2015 by the Ateneo de Manila University.[3] In 2019, he was conferred the Dangal ni Balagtas award by the Commission on the Filipino Language for his contribution to Philippine literature.[4]

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