Aclan Bates

Stage and Film work

Director/Actor

• 2019 Directed Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House for the Turkish State Theatres, Ankara
• 2015 Directed the feature-length film
• 2014 Directed Anton Chekhov's The Swan Song /A Marriage Proposal for the Turkish State Theatres, Ankara
• 2013 Performed in Unutma Beni as Cevher
• 2012 Performed in Taken 2
• 2012 Directed Pinedus Affair
• 2011 Directed A War Story at the Realto
• 2010 Directed Crimes of the Heart
• 2009 A Taxi to Jannas
• 2009 Josephine, Studio 52 as "Pepito" and "Juan Perón" Los Angeles
• 2008 Directed Melegin Sırları and performed as "Hakan"
• 2008 Lincoln Heights "lead" Los Angeles
• 2007 Directed Standing By at the Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles
• 2006 Agır Roman , , Los Angeles Production at the Ford Amphitheatre, Production Supervisor
• 2005 Directed The Trial for Write Act Repertory Theatre: Los Angeles
• 2004 Produced and Directed Cesar Chavez Documentary
• 2004 Directed George Orwell's Animal Farm
• 2000–02 American Film Institute Hollywood, California Writer/Director
• 1991–2009 Turkish National Theatre, Ankara, Turkey

  Actor/Director

• 1998–99 Jules Feiffer's Little Murders as "Kenny"
• 1996–98 Luigi Pirandello's Liola as "Liola"
• 1997–98 Directed Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies
• 1996–98 David Hare's Skylight as "Edward"
• 1995–97 Anton Chekhov's The Seagull as "Treplev"
• 1994–95 Victor Haim's The Visitor as "Mataresco
• 1994–95 Directed Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan
• 1993–94 Georg Büchner's Woyzeck as Charlatan
• 1992–93 Necip Fazıl Kısakürek's Bir Adam Yaratmak as "Mansur"
• 1991–92 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
• 1995–96 Turkish Radio and Television Ankara, Turkey

  Actor

• Prime Time TV series Ferhunde Hanimlar as "Tayfun"
• 1991–99 TRT and Private Stations Ankara, Turkey

  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

  Translations

• Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
• David Mamet, Sexual Perversity in Chicago
• George Orwell, Animal Farm
• Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice
• Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House
• Sarah Ruhl, Late, A cowboy Song
• Joe Masteroff, Cabaret
• Alan Ball, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
• Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis