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Aclan Bates is an American film and theatre director who divides his time between Los Angeles and Ankara. He is a working actor/director in the Turkish State Theatres.^{[citation needed]}

Stage and Film work

Director/Actor

2019 Directed Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House for the Turkish State Theatres, Ankara^[1]
2015 Directed the feature-length film Antikaci
2014 Directed Anton Chekhov's The Swan Song /A Marriage Proposal for the Turkish State Theatres, Ankara^[2]^[3]^[4]
2013 Performed in Unutma Beni as Cevher
2012 Performed in Taken 2
2012 Directed Pinedus Affair
2011 Directed A War Story at the Realto
2009 A Taxi to Jannas
2009 Josephine, Studio 52 as "Pepito" and "Juan Perón" Los Angeles
2008 Directed Melegin Sırları^[5] (Broken Angel)^[6] and performed as "Hakan"
2008 Lincoln Heights "lead" Los Angeles
2007 Directed Standing By at the Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles
2006 Agır Roman (East Side Story), Istanbul National Ballet, Los Angeles Production at the Ford Amphitheatre, Production Supervisor^[7]
2005 Directed The Trial for Write Act Repertory Theatre: Los Angeles^[8]^[9]
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 (The Making of a Man) 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^[10]
George Orwell, Animal Farm (Nelson Bond's stage adaptation)
Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice^[11]
Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House^[11]
Sarah Ruhl, Late, A cowboy Song^[11]
Joe Masteroff, Cabaret^[2]
Alan Ball, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis