THE TEAM
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
I'm the Boss
Script: Barış Toraz
Director: Mehmet Ergen
Set Design: Barış Dinçel
Dramaturge: Ceren Ercan
Costumes: Arzu Bigat Baril
Ligting: Yakup Çartık
Sound: Emre Ergen
Cast: Burcu Seçmeer, Deniz Celiloğlu, Engin Yüksel, Ercan Reşat Demir, Güliz Gençoğlu, Hakan Silahsızoğlu, Merve Engin, Kubilay Çamlıdağ, İpek Türktan, Ünal Yeter
MEHMET ERGEN
Director and translator. He has been the art director of Arcola Theater London since 2000 and was also the art director of Southwark Playhouse (1993/99), assistant art director of Hoxton Hall (2000) and director of Paddington Arts Youth Theater (2000). He also works as a text consultant for BBC and is the art director of Yeni Kuşak Tiyatro (New Generation Theater) at Akbank Art Centre.
AWARDS
2007 Afife Jale Theater Awards - Best Director of the Year
2004 "Tiyatro" Theater Awards - Best Translator of the Year
2003 Time Out Outstanding Achievement
2002, 2001 and 1998 Peter Brook Empty Space Award
1996 Equity (Actors' Union) / Best Studio Theater
1995 Time Out / Best Production in Studio Theater
1994 Angela Carter Award
1994 Candidate for the Sam Wanamaker Award
SOME OF THE PLAYS, OPERAS AND MUSICALS HE DIRECTED IN BRITAIN, IRELAND AND ISRAEL
Release the Beat (K.Lewkowicz/J.Johnson), I Can Get it For You Wholesale (J.Weidman/Harold Rome) Arcola Theater, Looking at the Sun (Jennifer Farmer) BAC, Dorian (D:Lawrence) Arts Theater-West End, Treemonisha (Scott Joplin) BAC, The Masque of Henry Purcell (Henry Purcell) Southwark Playhouse, A Little Weill (Kurt Weill) Southwark Playhouse, Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill) BAC, The Cradle Will Rock (Marc Blitzstein) BAC, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear (W. Shakespeare), A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller), Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Günter Grass), Jitterbug (Bonnie Greer), In the Jungle of Cities (Bertold Brecht), The Protagonist (Georg Kaiser), Getting Attention (Martin Crimp)
PLAYS HE DIRECTED IN TURKEY
Noises Off (Michael Frayn) Municipal Theater of İzmit and BKM, Yaban (Y.K.Karaosmanoğlu/B.Oya), İstanbul State Theater, Roots (Arnold Wesker), Much Ado About Nothing (W.Shakespeare), Tiyatro Anadolu, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Martin McDonagh), Yalta Game and Afterplay (Brian Friel) Kent Oyuncuları, Fool for Love (Sam Shepard), Ashes to Ashes and One for the Road (Harold Pinter), The Nest (Kroetz), The Shape of Things (Nell Labute) Akbank Art, Yeni Kuşak Tiyatro (New Generation Theater).
PLAY TRANSLATIONS
Per Günt-Henrik Ibsen, Don Quixote-Cervantes/D.Johnston, Noises Off-Michael Frayn, Fool for Love-Sam Shepard, Ashes to Ashes/One for the Road-Harold Pinter, The Shape of Things-Neil LaBute, The Lieutenant of Inishmore -Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman-Martin McDonagh, The Thirty-Nine Steps-John Buchan.
ESRA BEZEN BİLGİN
Graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory and in 1997 began to work at the İzmit Municipal Theater. She participated in festivals in Turkey and abroad with independent projects made with Emre Koyuncuoğlu. She performed in Aşk Delisi and Küller Küllere, directed by Mehmet Ergen, at the Akbank Art New Generation Theater. For the plays Aşk Delisi and Lysistrata she received the Ankara Art Institution and Sadri Alışık Theater Awards.
DENİZ CELİLOĞLU
Born in Bulgaria and graduated from Ayazağa Işık High School where he started theater. In 2004, he entered MSU's Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Theater. He attended Pera Fine Arts High School Department of Guitar (Flamenco) for three years and his first professional stage experience was in A Respectable Wedding, with general art director Zeliha Berksoy, staged at Beşiktaş Municipality Culture and Art Platform. He is now a senior at the State Conservatory. Some of the plays in which he has performed are Midas' Ears, Three Sisters, The Threepenny Opera, Spring Awakening and Gözlerimi Kaparım Vazifemi Yaparım. With his performance in "Salvador Dali Göndermeleri İçimi Isıtıyor" of Akbank Art New Generation Theater, Celiloğlu received the "Kerem Yılmazer Young Talent" Award at the 2008-2009 Lions Theater awards.
