Rassami Paoluengtong | |
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รัศมี เปาลึงทอง | |
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Rassami Paoluengtong, also known as "Khru Pom", is a Thai theatre director, casting director, professor, actress. She is best known for her work as a director of foreign plays on the Thai stage, the co-founder of "Theatre 28", casting director of Good Morning, Vietnam , and Off Limits, professor at Silkaporn University in Thailand, and actor in By the Time It Gets Dark . Paoluengtong was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) Thailand. [1] [2] [3]
Paoluengtong attended the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University for three years on a Fulbright fellowship graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism. [2] [3]
Rassami Paoluengtong co-founded "Theatre 28", a theatre company that played a significant role in the development of contemporary Thai theater. [3]
In 2016, Khru Pom appeared in the film By the Time It Gets Dark, known in Thai as Dao Khanong, in the role of Taew, a former student activist who survived the 1976 Thammasat University massacre. [4] The film was the Thai entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. [5] [1] [6] [7]
Paoluengtong and Mam Noppomas Pattaragul redesigned family property that had been shophouses into a cultural center with a theatre space and hotel rooms in Soi Kingphet, Ratchathewi district of Bangkok, in 2022. A new Thai translation of Art by French playwright Yasmina Reza premiered at GalileOasis in 2022 with English and Thai surtitles. [3] [8] [9]
In 2023, Paoluengtong received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) Thailand. [3]