

Yeşim Özsoy, writer/director/performer, founded GalataPerform and initiated the New Text New Theater Project aimed at developing playwriting in Turkey. She has written, directed, and produced numerous plays, which have been translated into English, French, German, Catalan, Russian and Italian, and have earned her several awards. Her two poetry books are Unseemly and Green Jinn. Her latest play Yüz Yılın Evi (House of Hundred), a co-production with Germany’s Maxim Gorki Theater and Switzerland’s Theatre Neumarkt, was staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 and selected by the Guardian as one of the ten must-sees from among 3500 candidates.