Mekong Cultural Hub

Bio: Thanupon Yindee is a director, actor and dancer from Thailand, working with the Makhampom Theatre Group.From 2010 to 2012, he and his team devised and performed community theatre productions raising awareness of children’s rights. In 2012 he co-directed a physical theatre production addressing stateless and ethnic minority rights in Northern Thailand. In 2013, he used his experience of military conscription to create contemporary dance dealing with violence in Thai military training. In 2014, he performed and produced contemporary circus and theatre in collaboration with German artists. From 2015 to 2017, he directed circus-theatre productions with young performers from ethnic minorities. In 2017, he directed a contemporary theatre production about freedom and democracy in the face of the military coup. From 2016 to 2018, he was part of a team creating theater that starts a dialogue between audience and characters on the stage about social dilemmas.