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Yeşim Özsoy
Writer, director, and actor Yeşim Özsoy is the founder and artistic director of GalataPerform, as well as the founding director of the New Text New Theatre project, its workshops, and festival. She began her career in theatre in Istanbul by teaching and acting at Stüdyo Oyuncuları, and later continued her work in New York, staging her plays at her own theatre in the off-off Broadway scene.
Since 2001, she has been writing, directing, and staging her own plays under GalataPerform in Istanbul, which she has developed with an independent and international perspective. Her plays have been translated into Italian, French, German, Catalan, Portuguese, and English, and have been staged both in Turkey and internationally.
She continues to lead the New Text New Theatre Project, which has been ongoing since 2006, and organizes workshops, festivals, publications, and events in the field of contemporary theatre in Istanbul.
In 2010, she was invited by the Wiesbaden State Theatre to write and direct a play. Her Afife Award-winning play Limping Tales from Istanbul was staged in Catalan at the GREC Festival in Barcelona in 2017, marking the first time a Turkish playwright’s work was included in the festival’s program.
In 2018, House of Hundred, which she wrote, directed, and staged, was realized as a co-production with Maxim Gorki Theatre in Germany and Theatre Neumarkt in Switzerland. In 2019, the play was listed by The Guardian among the “Top 10 Plays You Should See.”
In 2021, her screenplay Truth and Other Blindspots, co-written with Melisa Önel and Melisa Üneri, received first prize in the Nem TV Screenwriting Competition.
Her recent play Sand Lilies was staged as a Zorlu PSM Studio production.
Between 2023 and 2025, as part of a Playwriting Program developed with Portugal, her play Aksak Delirium was translated into Portuguese and English; it was presented as a staged reading in collaboration with Porto State Theatre and A Turma, and published in Portuguese.
