Jarunun ‘Jaa’ Phantachat

About

Jarunun ‘Jaa’ Phantachat is an award-winning actor, playwright, director, and producer. She is a co-artistic director of B-Floor Theatre, the physical theatre group based in Bangkok. She has performed and produced in numerous B-Floor productions and toured internationally with the company to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Denmark, and USA. Her noteworthy plays include “The Other Land”, “Demographic Survey”, “Abstract of Dream”,“Ceci N’est Pas la Politique”, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", “Lear and His 3 Daughters”, the top ten productions of the decade, selected by The Bangkok Post, and lastly, “Test of Endurance” which won Best Direction from Thai Section of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC – Thailand) in 2015. In 2014 Jarunun received the prestigious Silpathorn Award for outstanding merit in theatre from Thailand's Ministry of Contemporary Art and Culture and was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow. Beyond her works with B-Floor, Jarunun is a freelance writer, a voice-over director for the online game in Thailand, and also a co-founder of Collective Thai Scripts, a group that curates the translation and publication of contemporary Thai scripts.