Narumol “Kop” Thammapruksa Theatre · Masks · Chiang Mai

Curriculum vitae

Narumol Thammapruksa · Theatre artist · Chiang Mai, Thailand · KopNarumol@gmail.com · {CV PDF download}

Theatre work

2025

To Conceal is to Reveal — DirectorMask performance, Len Yai Program, Haan Studio, Chiang Mai, October

Motion — ProducerDirected by Kage Mulvilai, Lan Him Theatre, Chiang Mai, August

Megara and Mekhala — DirectorGreek mask play for International Women’s Day, Chiang Mai, March

2024

Chao Luang Kham Daeng — DirectorLanna Wisdom School 30th anniversary, Chiang Mai, November

Exploring in a Silent World — Facilitator & directorArt-therapy programme, AMNUA, Nanjing University of the Arts Art Museum, October

TERA Tera — DirectorTERASIA Program, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, January

2022

Oedipus Rex — DirectorPeace Culture Foundation, Chiang Mai, January

2021

Mask Making & Autobiographical Storytelling — Online workshop facilitatorYinalang Theatre Group, Taiwan, October

TERASIA Online Week — Online screeningTokyo, November

Curated Conferences — Script writer & performerFacilitated by Anmol Vellani, online

2020

TERA Tera — DirectorWat Pha Lat, Chiang Mai, October

14th Asian Arts Management Conference — Speaker“Theatre and Peace”, Siem Reap, February

Cultural and Creative Hub Vietnam — SpeakerBritish Council conference, Dalat, March

2019

Mask Theatre Workshop and Performance — Facilitator & directorCenter for Interdisciplinary Studies, Kaohsiung, July

Mekong Cultural Hub — Thailand representative to TaiwanOctober

2018

Retire-Men — PerformerDirected by Yoji Sakate; Morishita Studio, Tokyo; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila; Thepsiri Gallery, Chiang Mai; Creative Industries, Bangkok

2016–17

Ocean Blue Heart — Mask performerDirected by Nikorn Sae-Tang; Creative Industries, Bangkok (2016); The Store House, Tokyo (2017)

2015

Asian Mask: Reconstruction and Reconfiguration — Mask performerDirected by Nikorn Sae-Tang, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, November

Creative Fusion — Artist in residenceCleveland Foundation, Rainey Institute, Cleveland, August–October

2014

Smell: The Blind and the Dog — PerformerDirected by Atsuto Suzuki; Theatre 711, Shimokitazawa, October; Creative Industry, Bangkok, November

2013

Maya Yak (The Demon Hero) — PerformerDirected by Nikorn Sae-Tang; Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, October; Burapha University, August & December

Erotica, Butoh dance & Senryu poem — PerformerDirected by Katsura Kan, Himeji Cultural Center, March

2011

Butoh dance & Senryu poem — TranslatorSenryu by Chisato Seino, directed by Katsura Kan, School of Lanna Wisdom, Chiang Mai, November

2007

Mobile — Actor & playwrightThe Necessary Stage, Theatre TRAM, Setagaya, Tokyo, March

He-Me-She-It — PlaywrightDirected by Jaime del Mundo, Virgin Labfest, Manila, August

Gap in Generations — Actor & producerCenter for Cultural Promotion, Chiang Mai University, December

Refined Colour — ProducerMonochrome Circus (Kyoto), Humanity Theatre, Chiang Mai University, December

2006

Mobile — Actor & playwrightSingapore Arts Festival; The Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur, June

Sound of the Ocean — PlaywrightSpring Wind Theatre, Kaohsiung, November

Hidden Attraction — Actor & directorSubstation Art Center, Singapore Fringe Festival, February

2005

Hotel Grand Asia — Actor-collaboratorSetagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo, March

He-Me-She-It — Playwright & directorThe Little Festival, Taipei & Kaohsiung, August

Asian Theatre Collaboration Project, 5th workshop — Actor-collaboratorYCAM, Yamaguchi, February

2004

Mekong Project — Artistic directorDance Theatre Workshop (New York) / Rockefeller Foundation, Cambodia, March

Kita-Kanay — Artistic directorThai–Cambodian–Indonesian music exchange, Art Network Asia, April

Shadow Puppetry Exchange — Artistic directorCambodia–Indonesia, Art Network Asia, June

2003

Mekong Project — Artistic directorChiang Mai & Luang Prabang, November

Beauty Sutra — Performance installation“Beauty Suit” exhibition, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, September

Death of the Nations — ActorThe International WOW Company, dir. Josh Fox, TCG Conference, Milwaukee, May

2002

Somewhere Beyond the Sea — DirectorChiang Mai University Art Museum, November

Code Switching — Actor-collaboratorAsia Meets Asia, Tokyo International Forum & Proto-Theatre, October

Chiang Mai University Art Museum — Curator2002–2005

2001

Art against War — Project manager & installation-performance artistChiang Mai University Art Museum, November; includes “Truth?”, writer-director

Womanifesto Workshop 2001 — Installation-performanceBoon Bandan Farm, Si Saket, October

Media: Here and Now — Actor & directorWith Nimit Pipitkul & Puay Sevanakarn, Bangkok, December

2000

World Festival of Sacred Music — Project managerChiang Mai University, Payap University & Wat Suan Dok, December

Women Warrior Tales — Actor & directorIndonesia, Art Network Asia grant, May

The Adventure of Iron Pussy IV — ActorShort film, dir. Michael Shaowanasai, Bangkok

1999

Eat Me — Co-directorWith Chieng Chia Yu, APPEX, UCLA, Los Angeles, August

Family Portrait — Actor-collaboratorWith Dan Kwong, Minh Tran, Nami Yamamoto, Joan Pahaligan; APPEX, UCLA, August

The Beginning — Director; The Forbidden Land — InstallationNew York, June

The Stairway to the Stars — ActorWith Dance Rizome (Kyoto), Kad Theatre, Chiang Mai, November

1998

World Artists for Tibet — CoordinatorProject 304 Gallery, Bangkok, September

Penpa Tsering Concert for Tibet — ProducerJapan Foundation Auditorium, Bangkok / Chiang Mai University, September

This Is Not the Ramakien & ?WOW! — Actor & producerThe International WOW Company, dir. Josh Fox, Kad Theatre, Chiang Mai, January

1997

Chiang Mai 700 Years Celebration — Assistant director & acting coachChiang Mai, December

International Theatre Event — ProducerCompanies from Brazil, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand & the U.S.; Humanity Theatre, Chiang Mai, December

Faust — ActorDir. Damkerng Titapiyasak, Saeng Aroon Arts Theatre, Bangkok

Phoo Lae Hen Lom (The Woman Who Sees the Wind) — ActorSaeng Aroon Arts Theatre, Bangkok

1996

?WOW! — Actor, producer & artistic directorThe International WOW Company, Humanity Theatre, Chiang Mai, July

A Business of the Fools — CoordinatorBerlin–Bali–Bangkok International Arts Event, Chiang Mai, June

Clytemnestra — DancerChoreography by Barbara Dickinson, Chiang Mai

1995

Chiang Mai Social Installation (CMSI III) — Coordinator & artist“Mother Earth”, “Circle of Life”, “Buffalo Buffalo” and others, Chiang Mai, December

Rueng Thammada (The Ordinary Matter) — DirectorChiang Mai

The Zoo Story (Edward Albee) — DirectorBangkok & Chiang Mai

1994

Duet — DancerChoreography by Amie Dowling, The Chapel, Payap University, Chiang Mai

Drama for Children — Coordinator & directorSchools and orphanages, Chiang Mai

Drama for AIDS — CoordinatorGovernment-funded play toured in rural areas, Chiang Mai

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Akaoni (The Red Demon) — ActorDir. Noda Hideki; Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo; Bangkok; Bunkamura, Tokyo — staging years pending confirmation

The International WOW Company — Co-founder & artistic directorChiang Mai, {years}

Grants & fellowships

2019

Artist in residenceProfessional exchange, Mintha Theatre, Mandalay, Myanmar

2015

Creative Fusion artist in residenceCleveland Foundation, Rainey Institute, Cleveland

2014

Salzburg Global Seminar, Session 532“Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peace-Building and the Arts”, Salzburg

2012–13

Campus Asia Project — Exchange studentOsaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University

2008–09

Asian Public Intellectuals (API) FellowTo Japan and Indonesia, funded by the Nippon Foundation

1999

Asian Cultural Council granteeNew York, March–August

APPEX FellowUCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, July–August

American Dance Festival FellowDuke University, Durham, June–July

Teaching & community

Now

Lecturer, Faculty of Mass Communication, Chiang Mai University{start year}–present

Committee member & coordinator, Peace Culture FoundationChiang Mai, 2016–present

Aikido instructorRenshinkan dojo, Chiang Mai

2024

Round-table panellist, “Site-specific Practices and Remote Collaboration”TERASIA Program, Komunitas Utan Kayu Teater, Jakarta, January

2018

Lecturer, School of Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation“Reconciliation through Arts and Cultures”, Bangkok, February–March

2016–17

Facilitator, Ringogun Theater GroupMorishita Studio, Tokyo & Thepsiri Gallery, Chiang Mai

2015

Teaching residency, ClevelandRainey Institute; creative movement at Judson Manor; artist talk, Cleveland Institute of Art

2013

Visiting artist & lecturer on theatre and peacebuildingUniversity of San Francisco; Lancaster Seminary; Brandeis University, November

2007

Playwriting & directing workshop — FacilitatorSetagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo

Autobiographical writing workshop — FacilitatorWomen on the Moon Festival, Bangkok

2005–06

Regional advisor, theatre in the Mekong countriesPETA Theatre Center, Manila (2005); Hanoi (2006)

2001

Autobiographical writing & performing workshops — Co-facilitatorWith Dan Kwong, Bangkok & Chiang Mai

1995–97

Community dance & theatre workshopsEmpower Center; New Life Center; McKean leprosy rehabilitation centre; HIV/AIDS awareness programmes, Chiang Mai

Theatre workshop for Thai youth against AIDS — FacilitatorChiang Mai, 1997

Research & publications

2011

Building Culture of Peace Through AikidoM.A. independent study, Chiang Mai University — Faculty of Humanities “Best Independent Study 2012”; presented at AGRC 2012

2008

Artist and Their Roles in Creating a Living CityAPI fellowship research in Japan and Indonesia

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Publications{publications list — being confirmed}

Education

2011

M.A. English for CommunicationFaculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University

1993

B.Sc. Agricultural ExtensionFaculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University

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Peacebuilding, Payap University{Ph.D. status}