Prof. Dr. Hasibe Kalkan teaches at the Department of Theatre Studies at Istanbul University and heads the Department. She published books about documentary theatre, postmigrant theatre, and theatre semiotics. Kalkan has worked as a dramaturge at the Istanbul State Theater and writes theatre reviews for various daily newspapers and magazines. She is one of the Co- Founders of TheatreIst Showcase.

Handan Salta (PhD) former academic and a current critic, translator and writer. She worked as the Vice President of Turkish Theatre Critics Association. As well as several different texts, she translated many plays from English to Turkish and vice versa. After having worked in different universities she is now developing independent projects in various areas of performance including translation, text development, creative writing, children’s theatre, podcast series etc. She is the co-founder of Kritik Kolektif, an initiative to create collective productions on theatre criticism; the first book of the collective was published in 2022. She co-founded TheatreIST, another collective to make the voices of independent theatres in Istanbul heard internationally. TheatreIST made its first Showcase in 2022 and started a translation project with Slovakian-Turkish playwrights right after the showcase and initiated other translation projects from Turkish to other languages . Another one on the way is an international performance project revolving around the issue of immigrants including immigrant actors from different backgrounds, ethnicities and languages.

Senem Cevher, Born in 1982 in Izmir, Turkey. She was educated at Izmir Municipality Theatre and Izmir Youth Theatre when she was in high school. She studied at Yeditepe University Fine Arts Faculty Theatre Acting Department in 2005. After graduation, she worked at Amsterdam Theatre Rast, Istanbul Tiyatro Oyunevi, Ahsap Cerceve Puppet Theatre, Nilufer Municipality Theatre, Istanbul National Theatre, and Bursa National Theatre. In 2011, she graduated from Bahcesehir University Acting Department Master Degree Programme and worked for Bahcesehir University as a lecturer. And also she studied at 9 Eylul University Fine Arts Faculty Theatre Department Ph.D. Program and Sofia National Academy Theatre Film Arts Theatre Directing Department. She translated Jeton Neziraj, Edward Bond, Simona Semevic, Lia Karavia, Stefan Capaliku, Ilir Gjocaj, Neda Nejdana, Olexander Viter, Cevdet Bajraj, Konstantin Iliev, Thornton Wilder, Visar Krusha, Tino Caspanello’s texts from English to Turkish. She founded Bahcesehir University Conservatory Performing Arts Department and she works since 2020 as an Association Professor at this department.