[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.