Thai Theatre Foundation Working Group
“Thai Theatre Foundation Working Group” was incorporated on November 25, 2018 and registered as a non-juristic body of persons in Thailand. The mission of the working group is to collect resources necessary to register as a foundation under Thai laws in the near future. Currently, Thai Theatre Foundation Working Group consists of three members.
Manager
Peangdao Jariyapun
The theatre has been part of Peangdao Jariyapun’s life since she was 16. From a hobby with which she spent more time than her classes, it became a pillar of her life. Peangdao takes on multiple roles in the theatre arts including an actress, an acting coach, a project manager, and a stage manager. She believes the arts are a vehicle of change both on individual and societal levels.
Peangdao earned her BA in Dramatic Arts (Directing) from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. She has also completed an MA at her alma mater.
Peangdao loves exploring new things, cooking, having yummy food, and watching dog videos. She dreams of a garden house, a welfare state, and equity in our society.
Member
Thiptawan Uchai
Thiptawan Uchai loves acting, knowing various characters, and understanding their motivations. Since she started to pursue acting, the world of theatre has been a classroom and a lab for her to explore the value of our being. From an actress on stage, she followed her passion and became an applied theatre practitioner. She believes in learning through theatre and creating social change with the art form that she loves. Thiptawan currently teaches Acting and Theatre for Development at the Faculty of Communication Arts, Bangkok University. She has partnered with her close friend who shares the same enthusiasm about Theatre for Development and co-founded “Self-Factory”, a company that uses theatre practices as a tool to develop organizational and individual strengths within professional context to build self-esteem and happiness to be one’s self.
Thiptawan Uchai earned a BA in Dramatic Arts from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and an MA in Applied Theatre from University of Victoria, Canada.
Apart from enjoying theatre and art that reflects different worldviews, Thiptawan loves to travel to new places and chat with people with dissenting opinions. At home, she loves to decorate her house, read in a quiet corner, drink coffee, and talk to her dog.
Member
Tanyatorn Butryee
Tanyatorn Butryee (Fern) is a Project Operation Manager at IME Productions (Thailand). During her BA in Dramatic Arts at Chulalongkorn University, she won Sodsai Awards for Best Play in 2011. She is now working with a Concert Promoter company as well as writing plays and TV scripts as a freelancer.
Tanyatorn holds a BA in Dramatic Arts from Chulalongkorn University.
She loves theatres, movies, music and traveling for inspirations for her plays.