Gorkem Acaroglu

Görkem Acaroglu is a freelance theatre director, writer and dramaturge working between professional and community contexts. 

She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art’s Playwright’s Studio in 2003. Görkem has a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Theatre from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Media Arts and Production from the University of Technology Sydney.

Görkem’s staged works include The Habib Show by Gorkem Acaroglu; The Epiphany of Ben Hall by Barry Dickins; The Maya Project by Amy Dobson; Still Waiting by Alexandra Collier; Fool for Love by Sam Shepard; Have I None by Edward Bond; The Cow by Nazim Hikmet; Hardcover Hotel by Görkem Acarogluand and Love, Madness and Poetry by Gorkem Acaroglu.

Görkem has worked as a director’s attachment to Simon Phillips at the Melbourne Theatre Company on Hannie Rayson’s Two Brothers; Mahir Gunsiray at Tiyatro Oyun Evi, Istanbul Turkey on The Round of Pleasure by Werner Schwabwhich; Don Mahmouney at Sidetrack Studio Theatre on Citizen X; Basim Kahar at Sydney Art Theatre on The Maids by Jean Genet; and Bogdan Koca at Sydney Art Theatre on Mr Paul by Tankred Dorst.

In 2004, Görkem received an Australia Council Young Leaders award for her role in the establishment of the NESB Artist's Cooperative and the Mobile Multimedia Van for the Liverpool Migrant Resource Centre, working closely with newly arrived and refugee communities.