CV
Languages
Turkish (native speaker),
English (full professional proficiency), French (proficiency), German (Intermediate)
Education
Ph.D. in Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy, 2023
Thesis: Documentation in/of Performance Art
Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye
M.A. in Performing Arts, awarded with Merit, 2005
Thesis: “just BREATHE”: a devising process and its interaction with multimedia
Middlesex University, London, England
Great Thoughts Foundation Year Program, Certificate, 2003
Bard College Berlin, Berlin, Germany
B.S.SP, 2002
Theatre, Comparative Literature, and International Studies
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Performance and Artistic Direction
2025Creator, PerformerSilent Questions, performance parallel to Suzanne Lacy’s concurrent exhibition, “Birlikte/Together” for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul
2025 Artistic DirectorEncounters and Beyond, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne (Stage at the Museum), Istanbul
2025 Director & Adaptation
Yarın Belki de, Turkish adaptation of Tomorrow’s Parties by Forced Entertainment. Co-produced by Forced Entertainment, Beykoz Kundura and Lita House of Production, Istanbul
2025Creator, Director
panorama radio (Edition Chemnitz), participatory performance on the move, in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, and Culture Chemnitz, 2025
2024 Director, Creator
Public Silent Disco, a project to reclaim public spaces by means of dance, Istanbul
2024 Creator & Dramaturg
A-HA, a musical theater performance for children. In collaboration with Mückemacher
and Hakan Silahsızoğlu, presented at Tarabya Kültür Summer Festival, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul
2024 Artistic Director
Eyes Hear, Ears See, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, Istanbu
2023 Director
Yangın Yeri, staged reading of the play of the year. New Text Theatre Festival, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2023 Voice-over
Müzede An’da, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, Istanbul
2022 Director and Adaptation
Eski Tanrılar, radio play for Podron by Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul
2023 Artistic Direction
Always Side by Side, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, Istanbul
2023 Turkish anchor-voice
Conference of the Absent by Rimini Protokoll, Beykoz Kundura, Istanbul
2022 Voice Over
Pluriversum, a RanGBarang (RGB) Studio Production, Author/ Artistic Director/ Graphics: Parisa Karimi
2022 Creator, Director
an exhibition tour, participatory audio performance within the scope of Life, Death, Love and Justice exhibition, with curators: Didem Yazıcı, Peter Sit, Burcu Çimen, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul
2022 Director, Stage designer
Nuh’un Gemisini Aramak, produced by ENKA Sanat, premiered at IKSV Istanbul Theatre Festival, Istanbul
2022 Co-director
N’olcak Bu Yusuf Umut’un Hali, with Nezaket Erden, a Hemhâl theatre production.
2021 Artistic Direction & Project Design
PerformLab, in collaboration with Pelin Başaran of the Battersea Arts Centre, London, Melih Gençboyacı of Productiehuis Theater, Rotterdam, S.Buse Yıldırım at Beykoz Kundura and Dutch Performing Arts, Istanbul
2021 Artistic Direction
and in this very moment, performance, with Marlin de Haan. Funded by NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, FFT Düsseldorf, SALT Galata Istanbul, and Maschinenhaus Essen.
2020 Director
staged reading of Gece Vardiyası (Night Shift) by Marco Demian Vitanza, GalataPerform’s 9th New Text New Theatre Festival, Istanbul.
2020Director & Adaptation
Türkan Hanım’ın Ölümü (Death of Miss Türkan), a theatrical story reading from Selçuk Baran’s story “Türkan Hanım’ın Ölümü”, commissioned by and performed at Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul
2019 Conception & Direction
in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, panorama radio, a participatory performance on the move. Coproduced by FFT, Düsseldorf; funded by Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Presented in Istanbul, Düsseldorf, Bonn.
2018Dramaturg
Tırnak İçinde Hizmetçiler (The Maids in Quotes), Hemhâl Theatre, inspired by Jean Genet
2018co-Founder
Hemhâl Theatre
2018
Creator, Director
Once I set foot outside, in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, a performative installation, co-produced by A Corner in the World, X belontiids ALT, Istanbul and FFT, Dusseldorf; funded by Kunstiftung NRW, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Shown in Istanbul and Düsseldorf
2017Creator, Director
Dramaturgy Lab, a workshop, in collaboration with Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar. Commissioned by and held at Akbank Sanat with the support of the Dutch Consulate, Istanbul
2017Performer, Assistant Director
İKİ (TWO), a dance theatre production. Concept and direction by Semih Fırıncıoğlu.
2017
Produced by A Corner in the World X bomontiada ALT + Guest Program. Shown in Istanbul, at Bomonti ALT and Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, and in Heidelberg Stückemarkt in 2018
2014Performer, Assistant Director
Becoming a Rhinoceros 2.014, written and directed by Şahika Tekand
2013Dramaturg
Hiatus, by Gizem Bilgen, 19th Istanbul Theatre Festival, Istanbul
2010Performer
Shortening the Long Position, by Goldin & Senneby, for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, IKSV, Istanbul
2010Assistant Director
How to Forget in Ten Steps: Anti-Prometheus, written and directed by Şahika Tekand. Part of Promethiade Project by Stiftung Zollverein, Essen’ RUHR.2010 and, Istanbul 2010, Athens Festival, Athens
2009Artistic collaborator
Air (Hava), supported by LOOPING and the Culture Program of the European Union. Tanz im August Fil Festival, Berlin
2009Actress
Dönme İstanbul, a short film by Jacopo Mario Gondolfi and Luis Miguel Selvelli, Istanbul
2007Artistic collaborator
agoraphobia, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK, art-ist contemporary art magazine
2007Artistic collaborator
ccidRnt, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK , Colophon 2007, International Magazine Symposium, Luxembourg
2007Artistic collaborator
Image/Imagine, enjoy the silence…, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK, Nico Magazine: Interviews & Fashion
2007Artistic collaborator
Frozen 45’ performative exhibition by :mentalKLINIK. MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2006Performer
Eurydice’s Cry directed by Şahika Tekand, Studio Players. 15th International Istanbul Theatre Festival / 4th International Theatre Olympics
Higher Ed
Instructor, The Studio Players, Istanbul, 2010 - 2015
Program Assistant, Istanbul Bilgi University, Graduate Program in Architectural Design, 2005 - 2006
Guest Lecturer
Kadir Has University, Spring 2022, 2023 - 2024
Istanbul Bilgi University (Acting), 2021 - 2022
Istanbul Okan University, 2018 - 2023
Istanbul Okan University, 2018 - 2023
Istanbul University State Conservatory, 2017 - 2018
Istanbul Technical University, 2012 - 2017
Residencies
Garp Sessions: Daring Auralities, Babakale, Türkiye, 2021 link
Gülriz Sururi - Engin Cezzar Tiyatro Teşvik Ödülü
Awarded by IKSV, as Tiyatro Hemhâl, Türkiye, 2022 link
3rd International Clown Residency, Gözde Atalay, Agios Lavrentios, Greece, 2023
Grants and Fellowships
Kadmos Travel Grant, 2012
Festival of Avignon, France
Undergraduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2002 assisted in the introduction to “Part One: Rambles Through Literary Paris/Eugene Jolas, Critical Writings, 1924-1951” published by Northwestern University Press, 2009
Membership and Juries
The International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Türkiye, 2022 - present
Fringe Istanbul, Selection Committee Member, 2022 - present
Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme Advisory Board Member, 2021- 2022
Türkiye Tiyatro Eleştirmenler Birliği, Turkish Theatre Critics Association (TEB), 2015 - present
Eurodram, 2017 - present
Afife Jale Theatre Awards, Jury Member, 2013 - 2015
Workshops
Seiba Storytelling, Hikaye Anlatıcısının Saf Bakışı, Nazlı Çevik Azazi, İstanbul, Türkiye, 2023
Me is the Other, Michael Chekhov Module 4, Kumbaracı50, İstanbul, Türkiye, 2023
Conductor, The Editor’s Point of View, 24th Istanbul Theatre Festival, 2020 link
Making Contact: Living Images (Body-Imagination-Emotion) Michael Chekhov Module 1, Kumbaracı50, 2019
Playful Action from Stanislavski to Lecoq, BeReZe Gösteri Evi, İstanbul, 2019
The Practice of Embodiment, Ensemble Storytelling, Masked Play, Human Comedy, Moving Into the Shadow, Meet the
Trickster Within, London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA), Summer School module, 2017
Critical Endeavor, dance criticism and journalism workshop, idans05, 2011 link
“Dynamics and Metamorphoses of Classics as PerformativeEvents: Between Celebration and Communication,” European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Greek Drama, Epidaurus, Greece, 2011
Co-founder, Kuram Atölyesi (Theory Workshop), Istanbul, Türkiye link, 2010 - 2015
Physical Theatre Workshop, Video Workshop, Summer School at Middlesex University, London, 1996
Publication and Talks
2024Moderator
O zaman ve Orada (Then and There), podcast series in collaboration with Özlem Hemiş, Enka Sanat
2023 Creatore, Moderator
Local Stage, New Content, roundtable in collaboration with Özlem Hemiş, Beykoz Kundura
2024Author
Garp Sessions, Documentation and Commissioned Works link
2020-2022 Creator, Moderator
Sahneye Dair Sohbetler, series of live-streamed IG talks with key figures from the Turkish Performing Arts scene, for Koç University, Sevgi Gönül Cultural Centre
2022Moderator
90s Marathon, as part of the Stage 90s Onstage exhibition at SALT link
2021Lecture Seminar
Digitallab, 2021 link
2020 Guest speaker
Performative Spectatorship, Oxymoron Aesthetic of :mentalKLINIK, Taking a Third Position
2020 AuthorPerformans Sanatı ve Performatif Belgelemeye Dair, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Sanat Dünyamız, Sayı: 174
2020Author
Performatif Belgelemeye Dair, Dikmen Gürün’e yazılar, Doğan Kitap
2019Author
Mapping Turkey 2019, report on theatre in Türkiye, commissioned by Dutch Culture
2019Author
Performing in a Landscape of Forgetting, Theatre Research International, Volume 44, no.3, October
2019 Creatore, Moderator
Roundtable guest speaker: Mediated Meaning, with Viktor Bedö, Jana Scholze, Diane Sunar, and Vera Sacchetti (moderator) for Judith Seng’s cooperative Sand Castles.
2019Roundtable guest speaker
ACTING THINGS VII – School of Fluid Measures, 4th Istanbul Design Biennale, A School of Schools, published in Disegno #21, The Quarterly Journal of Design, Winter 2018/2019
2017Co-author
Yirmi: 1989’dan Bugüne İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali, published by IKSV, celebrating the 20 years of the Istanbul Theatre Festival
2017Editor
That’s Fucking Awesome, mentalKLINIK’s exhibition book published by GALERIST
2015Guest speaker
International Conference: “Newness and Global Theatre: Between Commodification and Artistic Necessity,” BITEF, Belgrade, and the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)
2015 Guest speaker
“Critic is Presentor: Towards Embodied Criticism” 15th International Symposium of Theatre Critics and Theatre Scholars, BITEF, Belgrade, and IATC.
2015 Performing Arts Editor
Art Unlimited, bi-monthly print publication, daily articles online
2011–2012Online journalist
2010 LAB TV
2011 Presenter
“How to Forget in Ten Steps: Anti-Prometheus” at İBBŞT, ÇGST, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Şehir Tiyatroları/Çağdaş Gösteri Sanatları Proje Geliştirme ve Uygulama Birimi
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