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2025, 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
2025, Artistic Director, Encounters 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.
2025, Creator, 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, Istanbul
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
2023, Director and Adaptation, Eski Tanrılar, radio play for Podron by Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul
2023, Turkish anchor-voice, Conference of the Absent by Rimini Protokoll, Beykoz Kundura, Istanbul
2023, Artistic Director, Always Side by Side, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Müzede Sahne, 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, a performative exhibition tour. 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. 
2020, Director, staged reading of Gece Vardiyası (Night Shift) by Marco Demian Vitanza, GalataPerform’s 9th New Text New Theatre Festival, Istanbul
2020, 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
2019, Creator, Director, in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, panorama radio, a participatory performance on the move.
2018, Dramaturg, Tırnak İçinde Hizmetçiler (The Maids in Quotes), Hemhâl Theatre, inspired by Jean Genet 
2018-2026, Co-founder, Hemhâl Theatre.
2018, Creator, Director, Once I set foot outside, in collaboration with Marlin de Haan, a performative installation
2017, 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
2017, Performer, Assistant Director, İKİ (TWO), a dance theatre production

2014, Performer, Assistant Director, Becoming a Rhinoceros 2.014, written and directed by Şahika Tekand
2013, Dramaturg, Hiatus, by Gizem Bilgen, 19th Istanbul Theatre Festival, Istanbul
2012, Performer, Shortening the Long Position, by Goldin & Senneby, for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, IKSV, Istanbul 
2010, Assistant Director, How to Forget in Ten Steps: Anti-Prometheus, written and directed by Şahika Tekand
2009, Artistic collaborator, Air (Hava), supported by LOOPING and the Culture Program of the European Union. Tanz im August Film Festival, Berlin 


2009, Actress, Dönme İstanbul, a short film by Jacopo Mario Gondolfi and Luis Miguel Selvelli, Istanbul
2007, Artistic collaborator, agoraphobia, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK, art-ist contemporary art magazine
2007, Artistic collaborator, ccidRnt, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK , Colophon 2007, International Magazine Symposium, Luxembourg
2007, Artistic collaborator, Image/Imagine, enjoy the silence…, performative text. With docu:mentalKLİNİK, Nico Magazine: Interviews & Fashion
2007, Artistic collaborator, Frozen 45’ performative exhibition by :mentalKLINIK. MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2006, Performer, Eurydice’s Cry directed by Şahika Tekand, Studio Players. 15th International Istanbul Theatre Festival / 4th International Theatre Olympics
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