Jarunun Phantachat

Jaa Jarunun Phantachat is an awardwinning actor playwright director and producer and coartistic director of BFloor Theatre a physical theatre group based in Bangkok A graduate of Chiang Mai Universitys Faculty of Mass Communication her physical theatre training includes modern dance Laban Effort Qualities Butoh and Viewpoints She has performed in numerous BFloor productions and toured internationally In 2014 Jaa received the prestigious Silpathorn Award for outstanding merit in theatre from Thailands Ministry of Contemporary Art and Culture and was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow In 2015 she received the award for Best Direction from the Thai Section of the International Association of Theatre Critics IATC Thailand for Test of Endurance The shows she produced in 2016 Fundamental and 2018 Something Missing won Best Ensemble Performance Best Art Direction and Best Movement Based Performance from IATC Thailand In 2016 she received the award for Best Actress in the film Ferris Wheel from the Short Shorts Film Festival Asia international competition and Thai Short Film Video Festival Beyond her work with BFloor Jarunun is a freelance writer a voiceover director for the online game Blizzards Hearthstone Thailand and is a cofounder of Collective Thai Scripts a group that curates the translation and publication of contemporary Thai scripts