Meet our artists in Thai Theatre Showcase: โชว์เคส โชว์ของ
Pancharee Sangkaeo
Panel Talk, 23 ก.ค. 65
Riw Rakkulchon
Panel Talk, 23 ก.ค. 65
Prince Gomolvilas
Panel Talk, 24 ก.ค. 65
Nana Dakin
Panel Talk, 23 ก.ค. 65
Pun Bandhu
Panel Talk, 23 ก.ค. 65
Sai Somboon
Showcase 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Luke Naphat
Showcase 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Ann Chunharakchote
Showcase 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Pacharakmol Chantri
Show “Home” 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Vin Danainan
Show “Home” 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Sanhawich Meateanuwat
Show “Home” 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Heen Sasithorn
Show “Home” 23-24 ก.ค. 65
Panel Talk
Pancharee Sangkaeo
Scenic Designer
Pancharee Sangkaeo is a scenic designer. She has an MFA in Production Design from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She was a full-time stage designer for a concert production company called HUI in Bangkok before she moved to the states. She’s now a freelance set designer for theater productions and a full-time drafter of scenic and experiential sets at Kadan Productions. She has designed props, experiences, lighting and graphics as well.
Riw Rakkulchon
Theatrical Designer
Riw (pronounced Ree-you) is a Set & Costume Designer, Animator and Chef from Bangkok, Thailand. Selected Credits: Associate Set Designer (Pass Over on Broadway). He/They has worked at Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Drury Lane Theatre, Asolo Rep, The Acting Company, 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, Primary Stages, The Public Theatre, amongst others . He/They also works with designers Wilson Chin, Riccardo Hernandez, Jason Ardizzone-West, Donyale Werle, Santo Loquasto, Rachel Hauck, Clint Ramos and Walt Spangler. Board member of WithAll, a non-profit Organization on a fight to end eating disorders. @riwrdesign, B.F.A. Ithaca College, M.F.A Yale School of Drama (Donald & Zorca Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design Recipient). Member of United Scenic Artist 829.
Prince Gomolvilas
Playwright
Prince Gomolvilas is an internationally produced Thai-American playwright and the winner of a PEN Center USA Literary Award for Drama. His critically acclaimed play, "The Brothers Paranormal," debuted Off-Broadway at the Beckett Theatre, in a production by Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. It has since been published by Dramatic Publishing and performed across the country, and it opens at East West Players in Los Angeles in November. He is the co-creator of a new TV series currently in development at Amazon Studios, and he is a former Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California. Visit www.princegomolvilas.com for more information.
Nana Dakin
Director
Nana Dakin is a queer Thai-American director of new work, classics and devised performance based in NYC. Her work pursues social equity by examining the way culture is constructed and unsettling dormant biases. She is the first Thai theatre director to direct at the Royal Court Theatre in London and in NYC her work has been presented by Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights Realm, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and more. Nana has taught directing, devising and creative movement workshops in Thailand, the U.K and the U.S. She is a core member of B-Floor Theatre, Thailand’s most highly awarded theatre company, and of Superhero Clubhouse, a company that creates theater to enact climate and environmental justice. Nana is also the Board President of the Thai Theatre Foundation.
Current: MAMMELEPHANT (Superhero Clubhouse/122CC). Upcoming: BIG ZOO (Tisch Drama Stage). Recent: LOST COAST (The Playwrights Realm INK’D Festival), PASSAGE (University of North Carolina School of the Arts), SORRY/NOT SORRY (Ars Nova ANT Fest), SUNWATCHER (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Global Forms Festival, Ancram Opera House Play Lab, Civilians FINDINGS Series), LOVE LETTER TO A SEED (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), WHITE PEARL (Royal Court Theatre), an all-women and non-binary production of Shakespeare’s RICHARD III (Lenfest Center for the Arts), and DAMAGE JOY (Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting). Grants & Fellowships: NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Civilians R&D Group, 2050 NYTW Directing Fellow.
Nana has developed new work at Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, The Song Collective, The Tank, Columbia University’s International Play Reading Festival, and more. MFA Theatre Directing: Columbia University. www.nanadakin.com
Pun Bandhu
Actor/ Producer
Pun Bandhu (Actor/Producer) has acted on Broadway (Wit), Off Broadway (Public Theater, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons among many others) and regionally across the country where he was the recipient of a Henry Award for Best Featured Actor. He has guest starred on numerous TV shows including NCIS: New Orleans, FBI, Orange is the New Black, Madam Secretary, Blindspot, Gotham among others and recurs on Blue Bloods. He can be seen in the Oscar-nominated films Michael Clayton, Burn After Reading and Can You Ever Forgive Me? among many others. As a producer, he is one of the first Broadway producers of Asian descent to win a Tony Award, for Glengarry Glenn Ross in 2005, picking up another (and a Drama Desk Award) for Spring Awakening two years later. He is currently co-producing Beetlejuice the Musical at the Marquis Theatre. The advocacy group he co-founded, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC), received special Obie and Tony awards, recognizing AAPAC's role in diversify the industry. He sits on the Advisory Board for the Yale School of Drama where he received his MFA in Acting.
Showcase
Sai Somboon
Comedian, Actor, Dancer
Sai is a comedian, actor and dancer from Bangkok, Thailand. Based out of New York City, Sai has performed in Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel, FringeNYC, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Fulton Theatre, Maltz Jupiter, Dallas Musicals, North Shore Music Theatre and Daegu Opera House in Daegu, South Korea.
Sai holds a Bachelor of Art in Anthropology from Franklin & Marshall College, a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from The Ohio State University and a Master of Education from Harvard University.
Luke Naphat
Actor, Singer, Musical Performer
LUKE NAPHAT is thrilled to participate in the first Thai Theatre showcase! He left his hometown to do a V.O. for Bubble Guppies on Nickelodeon when he was 11 years old. His previous works include: Trevor: A New Musical, Farewell My Concubine (with Jason Robert Brown), and A Christmas Carol (Crossroads Theatre Company). He also appeared in TV shows on NBC and CBS. He has worked with many different Tony Award winning directors and producers. Luke now attends Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, he hopes that he can bring what he has learned in the Big Apple and spread his experiences with those in his hometown. Thank you to P’ Big for this opportunity and his parents for supporting him all the way. Kid-Tung-Baan…
Ann Chunharakchote
Comedian
Ann Chunharakchote, known professionally as Ann Chun, is a NY-based comedian and writer from Thailand. She has appeared on Asian AF and Asian Comedy Festival in New York City. Ann was selected as a finalist for the Thousand Miles Project, a TV writing program founded by showrunner Soo Hugh (Pachinko) in partnership with Universal Content Productions. She produces and hosts the comedy podcast “Where Are You From, From?”
Ann's solo show, Asian Divorce, will make its international debut at Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year.
‘Home’
Pacharakmol Chantri
Actor
Pacharakamol Chantri, a stage actor from Thailand fascinated by the art of theatre, has expanded herself in theatre career by focusing her talents on scholarly professional training in the US, in addition to acting training. Now she serves Thai Theatre Foundation as the secretary.
Pacharakamol has a BA in Dramatic Arts from Chulalongkorn University, a 2-year acting training at HB Studio, and an MA in Theatre from Hunter College.
A new mom, Pacharakamol loves theatre, cooking, yoga, swimming and handcrafts. She will be happiest when she takes her daughter out to feel the sun and sea breeze.
Vin Danainan
Actor
Vin Kridakorn is an actor based in New York City with extensive experience in Theater, Film, and TV. Working in theaters such as The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Goodman Theatre, and TV shows such as Madame Secretary, Happyish, and Lisey's Story. Vin also teaches scene study to Thai Students in association with Life Theatre in Thailand.
Sanhawich Meateanuwat
Director
Sanhawich Meateanuwat is a second-year MFA directing student at Illinois State University. Originally from Thailand, he graduated from Bangkok University with the Bu Creative Scholarship and taught acting and directing at his alma mater after he graduated. His work focuses on using his directing craft to create dynamic theatre that supports social movements, explores human relationships, and impacts the larger society, especially in the context of cultural diversity.
In 2022, he won the National SDC Directing Fellowship Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
Heen Sasithorn
Actor
Heen Sasithorn Panichnok is an actor based in NYC and Thailand. She grew up in Bangkok where she received her BA in Acting and Directing from Chulalongkorn University. She has been featured in many Thai commercials, television shows, theatrical productions and feature films. Heen holds an MFA in acting from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City.
Heen is a part time acting teacher and has been an adjunct at several Thai Universities. She is also an avid scuba diver and has a deep appreciation of the under water world.