Elif Temuçin

Elif Temuçin was among the founding members of Tiyatro BeReZe in 2006 and of the international theatre company MishMash in 2012. Between 2002 and 2013 Temuçin worked as a writer, actor and puppeteer for institutions such as ICC and TRT. Sen Uzaktayken (While You Were Away), presented at a playwrights’ forum in Croatia in 2008, was translated into Croatian, English and Bulgarian and published in Zagreb. In 2012 Temuçin was invited to the New Visions/New Voices Biennial at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC with the youth play Biz Sizi Ararız (We’ll Call You). An-Sızı-N, which Temuçin wrote and performed in 2020, was staged with the support of the İKSV Gülriz Sururi–Engin Cezzar Theatre Encouragement Award. Productions Temuçin has adapted and directed include Cimri, named best comedy of the year in 2023, and Martı-mıyım? and Romeo+Juliet=Aşk(?), which premiered in 2024. Since 2006 Temuçin has worked on some twenty-five national and international projects as an adapter, director, writer and actor.