Ebru Nihan Celkan is the founder of BuluTiyatro, a text-driven theater company in Istanbul, and the author of more than nine plays, which have been widely performed in Turkey, two having been included in the repertoire of State and City theaters. She is one of four international playwrights invited by the Maxim Gorki theater in Berlin and the Robert Bosch Foundation, among other co-sponsors, to participate in the "War in Peace Project," in which an ongoing group discussion leads to the composition of new dramatic works. Celkan is a human-rights activist who writes for the Evrensel Sunday supplement on such issues. Her play on assassination cells in Turkey, Triggerman (based in part on the death of the Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink), will be included in an anthology of Turkish drama, to be published by Laertes of Chapel Hill.
Media Highlights:
An interview with Ebru Nihan Celkan about her artistic work.
A televised discussion with Ebru Nihan Celkan on gender discrimination and violence against women in Turkey.
An excerpt from the BuluTiyatro production of Triggerman.
A recent interview with Ebru Nihan Celkan on the subject of her biography, her entrance into the world of theater, and her teaching with respect to gender studies.
A recent interview with Ebru Nihan Celkan about her new work, LBGT characters and the theater scene in Turkey.
Özge Ertem is inspired by a quest to combine the field of history with that of theater, and to locate common sources and methodologies. A historian by training (an instructor of history at Koç University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the former editor-in-chief of publications at their Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations), she is also a member of the BuluTiyatro company where she applies her experience from various acting classes and workshops, performing in several plays and active in project development. Ertem is one of the editors of a forthcoming anthology of Turkish drama to be published by Laertes of Chapel Hill.
Selected Publications:
Ertem, Özge “Considering Famine in the Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Framework and Overview.” COLLeGIUM: Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 22, pages: 151–172.
-“Dilerim ki Sen de Bir Gün Sokaklardan Kurtulasın!”: Çocuk Dergilerinde Sahil ve Sokak Çocukları”[“I hope one day you are also rescued from the streets!”: Children of Beaches and Streets”], Dosya: Çocukların ve Çocukluğun Tarihi [History of Children and Childhood], Toplumsal Tarih, no: 274 (October 2016), pages: 56-61.
-“British Views on the Indian and Ottoman Famines: Politics, Culture, and Morality.” In: “The Imagination of Limits: Exploring Scarcity and Abundance,” edited by Frederike Felcht and Katie Ritson, RCC Perspectives 2015, no. 2, pages: 17–27.
-“Fiyatı Alidir!: Diyarbakır’da Kıtlık, Yokluk ve Şiddet, 1879-1880”[Its price is extremely high!: Famine, Deprivation and Violence in Diyarbekir], Diyarbakır Tebliğleri (ed. Bülent Doğan) İstanbul: Hrant Dink Vakfı Yayınları, 2013, pages: 73-79.
-“Sick Men of Asia Minor in an Ailing Empire: Famine, Villagers and Government in Missionary Accounts (1873-75)” in International Review of Turkish Studies, Spring 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, pages: 72-94.
-“Rethinking Historical Perceptions in the Balkans” in South East Europe Review on Labor and Social Affairs, Volume 5, Number 2, July 2002, pages: 49-57.
Özlem Karadağ has long navigated the waters of both scholarship and theater, combining her degrees in English language and Literature, her research in contemporary drama, and duties as a professor at Istanbul University with stints in various theater companies. In 2012 she joined BuluTiyatro as a resident dramaturg and assistant director, as well as being engaged in project development. Karadağ has also translated many contemporary English plays which have gone on to be produced by theater companies in Istanbul. She is one of the editors of a forthcoming anthology of Turkish drama to be published bLaertes of Chapel Hill.
Selected Publications:
Karadağ, Özlem. Trauma on the Contemporary English Stage: Kane, Ravenhill, Ridley. 2016.
-"I Need A Hero: Where Have All the Good Men Gone in Contemporary English Drama?" Batı Edebiyatında Kahraman. Denizli: Pamukkale Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010. pp. 334-341.
-“Disiplinlerarası ve Medyalararası bir Yeniden Yazma Eylemi Olarak Metin ve Performans: Hamlet Makinesi (1977) & ‘Ophelia’ya Ölüm Yakışır (2005),” [Text and Performance as an Interdisciplinary and Intermedia Rewriting: Hamletmachine (1977) and “Death Suits Ophelia” (2005)] Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi - Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Vol. 2, no. 38. pp. 23-48. Istanbul: Istanbul University. Press, 2017.
- “Misinterpretation, Misjudgement, Mismatching & Emma’s Epiphanies in Jane Austen’s Emma.” LİTERA, vol.1, pp. 13-35, Istanbul: Istanbul University Press, 2014.
-“Ölmeyi Seçmek: Antigone ve Ophelia’nın Gönüllü Ölümeri” [“Choosing Death: Voluntary Deaths of Antigone and Ophelia”] LİTERA, Vol. 1, no. 24. Istanbul: Istanbul. University Press, 2012. pp. 15-29
-"Alegorik, Komik ve Gerçekçi bir Oyunu Türkçeleştirmek: Anthony Neilson’ın The Wonderful World of Dissocia’sı." ["Translating an Allegorical, Comedic and Realistic 'in-yer-face' play into Turkish: Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia"]. Journal of German Language and Literature Studies vol. II, no. XXII, 2009/2. pp. 79-87.
