After two years of acting training with Varlam Nikoladze and Kocaeli City Theaters Theater School, He graduated from Uludag University Faculty of Fine Arts, Theatre Department with a BA in Acting. His final thesis was entitled “From individual action to performance, based on the research of Jerzy Grotowsky and Studio Matejka”.After He left the Sociology department of Istanbul University and started to do his master’s degree in Dramatic Arts at Kocaeli University Institute of Social Sciences. He had more than ten workshops as a permanent student of Tiyaro Medresesi in Turkey.
He has received pieces of training with Mine Çerçi and Güray Dinçol on the acting pedagogy of Lecoq. He attended some workshops which enable to him create his own acting style and run to theatre approach of Grotowsky in Poland under the leadership of Alexandra Kazazou. By attending a number of workshops, He has worked on Dominig Defazio, Laban, Stanislavski and Strasberg theories with many acting coaches from different countries. He did research on the Michael Chekhov acting system with Ulrich Meyer Horsch and the Eric Morris Acting System with Eric Morris and Meltem Cumbul, who is a successful and famous actress in Turkey. Feldenkrais experience with Deniz Erdem is one of the works that enriches his acting journey. He also trained on acting in front of the camera from Kürşat Alnıaçık, Nadir Sarıbacak and many other actors.
Immediately after graduation, He played a General in the production of Woyzeck Tale-A Rock Musical directed by Erdal Beşikçioğlu at the Tatbikat Theatre in Turkey. Then He played in the Turkish DasDas production of The Suppliant Women project by Ramin Gray and his team from the UK. Under the umbrella of Zula Performance, of which He is the founder and Artistic Director, He played the solo role written by Aziz Er in a production called NADJA/BEING ANDRE BRETON for two seasons. He attended a large number of theatre and art festivals with this project and created many acting workshops as an acting coach. Then He directed their second production called ‘’ Leaving The Milk ‘’ after Nadja for the formation of a man-themed trilogy. He played many various television projects. He also prepared video art projects related to performing arts.
In his presentation career, he presented the events of more than ten important brands such as Coco-Cola, Cartoon Network, Eti, Huawei, TRT Cocuk, Minika Cocuk, Yumurcak TV, Anadolu Ateşı.
In 2018, he went to England for a second master’s degree in acting and to train English. During his trip, He has collaborated with various theatre companies and theatre students in Germany, the Netherlands, Malta, Belgium and Italy for the dance theatre project, which He created as the founder and art director, under the umbrella of Zula Performance.
During his stay abroad in mid-2020, he received masters admissions from 6 different schools and from three different countries. After receiving acceptance from The Commedia School in Denmark, Lassad School in Belgium, Manchester Metropolitan University Contemporary Performance Department, University of Kent Physical Acting Department, Middlesex University Theater Art Department and Arts Education London Acting Department in England, The schools he got accepted stopped their education due to the coronavirus pandemic.
He is planning to complete his master’s degree in one of the schools he has recently got accepted abroad as soon as possible. He aims to contribute to art education in Turkey after He created his own acting style by getting and improving all acting techniques. He is willing to open a comprehensive acting studio to work internationally by using his international academic and practical acting experience.
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