Aclan Bates

Aclan Buyukturkoglu (Bates)
Born Aclan Büyüktürkoğlu
June 25, 1966 (1966-06-25) (age 45)
Ankara, Turkey
Occupation actor, producer, director, writer

Aclan Bates Büyüktürkoğlu (Born: 25 June 1966, Ankara, Turkey) is a Film/Theater actor, Film/Theater director, writer and Film/Theater producer.

Filmography

Year Title Notes
2010

Present FILMSTAR Performing Arts Center. Ankara, Turkiye

Director/Actor

2010 Directed Paolo Levi's "Pinedus Affair"

2009 Directed Jeanne Beckwith’s “A War Story at the Realto”

2008 Directed Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart”

2007 Directed Melegin Sırları/Broken Angel Feature length film starring Nehir Erdogan, Los Angeles and was featured as “Hakan”

2006 Taxi to Jannah Fountain Theatre as “Yazeed” Los Angeles

2006Josephine Studio 52 as “Pepito” and “Juan Peron” Los Angeles

2006 Lincoln Heights ABC TV “lead” Los Angeles

2006 Directed Standing By for JLS Productions at Matrix Theatre Los Angeles

2005 Agır Roman Istanbul Devlet Opera ve Balesi Los Angeles Production, Production Supervisor, Los Angeles

2005 Directed The Trial for Write Act Repertory Theatre: Los Angeles

2000 - 2002 American Film Institute Hollywood, California Writer/Director

2000 Relief

2001 Cesar Chavez, Documentary for Dept. of Education

2001 Versus

2001 The Revelation of T.H. Carlson

2001 The Hunt

2002 Condemned, Thesis Film, Best International Short, Ankara International Film Festival

2002 Valley of Tears, Screenplay, Co-writer

1991 - 2009 Turkish National Theatre Ankara, Turkey

Actor/Director

2003 Directed George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”

1998-1999 Jules Pfeiffer’s Little Murders as “Kenny”

1996-1998 Luigi Pirandello’s Liola as “Liola”

1997-1998 Directed Jean-Paul Sartre’s Flies

1996-1998 David Hare’s Skylight as “Edward”

1995-1997 Anton Chekhov’s Seagull as “Treplev”

1994-1995 Victor Haim’s The Visitor as “Mataresco

1994-1995 Directed Bertolt Brecht’s,The Good Person of Szechuan

1993-1994 George Buchner’s Woyzeck as Charlatan

1992-1993 N. F. Kisakurek’s Bir Adam Yaratmak (The Making of a Man) as “Mansur”

1991-1992 One-man play, Kus by Coskun Irmak Karalarin Memetleri as “Ali” by Cahit Atay, Ay Isiginda Samata as “Erol” by Haldun Taner Genc Osman in various roles

1995–1996 Turkish Radio and Television Ankara, Turkey

Actor Prime Time TV series Ferhunde Hanimlar as “Tayfun”

1991–1999 TRT and Private Stations Ankara, Turkey

Voice Over Various TV series and movies, from English into Turkish Translated for films and series from English to Turkish

EDUCATION

2000—2002 American Film Institute, Directing Hollywood, California Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Film: Condemned

1995–1999 Ankara University, Education Sciences Faculty Education Programs & Training Ankara, Turkey Masters of Arts Thesis: Problems of Training Actors in Theatre Education Institutions

1991–1995 Hacettepe University, Ankara National Conservatory Theatre Department Ankara, Turkey Masters of Fine Arts Emphasis in Theatre Education and Directing

1987–1991 Hacettepe University, Ankara National Conservatory Theatre Department Ankara, Turkey Bachelor of Arts

Performed Taziye as “Heja”

Performed Three Penny Opera as “Mack the Knife”

Performed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as “Guildenstern”

TRANSLATIONS

Beth Henley CRIMES OF THE HEART

David Mamet SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO

George Orwell THE ANIMAL FARM (Nelson Bond’s Version)

Sarah Ruhl EURYDICE - THE CLEAN HOUSE

Joe Masteroff CABARET

Alan Ball FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS

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