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Creator, Performer, Silent 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
Artistic Director, Encounters and Beyond, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne (Stage at the Museum), Istanbul
Director & Adaptation, Yarın Belki de, Turkish adaptation of Tomorrow’s Parties by Forced Entertainment.
Creator, Director, panorama radio (Edition Chemnitz), participatory performance on the move, in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, and Culture Chemnitz, 2025
Director, Creator, Public Silent Disco, a project to reclaim public spaces by means of dance, Istanbul
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 
Artistic Director, Eyes Hear, Ears See, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, Istanbul
Director, Yangın Yeri, staged reading of the play of the year. New Text Theatre Festival, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
Voice-over, Müzede An’da, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, Istanbul
Director and Adaptation, Eski Tanrılar, radio play for Podron by Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul
Turkish anchor-voice, Conference of the Absent by Rimini Protokoll, Beykoz Kundura, Istanbul
Artistic Director, Always Side by Side, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, Istanbul
Creator & Moderator Local Stage, New Content, roundtable in collaboration with Özlem Hemiş, Beykoz Kundura
Voice-over, Pluriversum, a RanGBarang (RGB) Studio Production, Author/ Artistic Director/ Graphics: Parisa Karimi
Creator, Director, an exhibition tour, audio performance within the scope of Life, Death, Love and Justice exhibition, a performative exhibition tour. With curators: Didem Yazıcı, Peter Sit, Burcu Çimen, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul

Director, Stage designer Nuh’un Gemisini Aramak, produced by ENKA Sanat, premiered at IKSV Istanbul Theatre Festival, Istanbul
Co-director, N’olcak Bu Yusuf Umut’un Hali, with Nezaket Erden, a Hemhâl theatre production.
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
Artistic Direction, and in this very moment, performance, with Marlin de Haan. 
Director, staged reading of Gece Vardiyası (Night Shift) by Marco Demian Vitanza, GalataPerform’s 9th New Text New Theatre Festival, Istanbul

Director & 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
Creator, Director, in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, panorama radio, a participatory performance on the move.
Dramaturg, Tırnak İçinde Hizmetçiler (The Maids in Quotes), Hemhâl Theatre, inspired by Jean Genet 
Co-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
Creator, 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
Performer, Assistant Director, İKİ (TWO), a dance theatre production. Concept and direction by Semih Fırıncıoğlu. 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

Performer, Assistant Director, Becoming a Rhinoceros 2.014, written and directed by Şahika Tekand
Dramaturg, Hiatus, by Gizem Bilgen, 19th Istanbul Theatre Festival, Istanbul
Performer, Shortening the Long Position, by Goldin & Senneby, for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, IKSV, Istanbul 
Assistant 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
Artistic collaborator, Air (Hava), supported by LOOPING and the Culture Program of the European Union. Tanz im August Film Festival, Berlin 


Actress, Dönme İstanbul, a short film by Jacopo Mario Gondolfi and Luis Miguel Selvelli, Istanbul
Artistic collaborator, agoraphobia, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK, art-ist contemporary art magazine
Artistic collaborator, ccidRnt, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK , Colophon 2007, International Magazine Symposium, Luxembourg
Artistic collaborator, Image/Imagine, enjoy the silence…, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK, Nico Magazine: Interviews & Fashion
Artistic collaborator, Frozen 45’ performative exhibition by :mentalKLINIK. MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Performer, Eurydice’s Cry directed by Şahika Tekand, Studio Players. 15th International Istanbul Theatre Festival / 4th International Theatre Olympics
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