Sedef Ecer

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Sedef Ecer
Born1965 (age 57–58)
Istanbul, Turkey
Occupations
  • Playwright
  • novelist
  • actress
  • screenwriter
Website Official website

Sedef Ecer (born 1965) is a Turkish-French playwright, novelist, actress and screenwriter. She began her career as a child film actress in Turkey, and later moved to France. She has written a number of plays in both Turkish and French, which have been widely translated, and her first novel was published in 2021.

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Biography

Ecer was born in Istanbul in 1965. [1] [2] [3] She attended Boğaziçi University. [3] She was a child film actress, [4] and says that she appeared in around 25 Turkish feature films between the ages of three and 10. [5] [6] She continued to act as an adult and appeared in the 1994 Turkish drama Yengeç Sepeti . [7]

In 2008 she wrote the French play Sur le seuil, which she and a co-translator subsequently translated into Turkish as Eşikte. [8] It was also translated into Polish and into Hebrew and Persian radio adaptations. [8] It was performed at the Cent Quatre and the Maison des Auteurs in 2009, [9] and at the İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali  [ tr ] in 2010. [8] In 2011 she co-wrote and appeared in the French television comedy film Comme chez soi. [10] [11] In 2013 she was the artist-in-residence at the Maison d'Europe et d'Orient  [ fr ]. [12]

As part of a writer-in-residence programme in Île-de-France in 2010 she wrote the play A la périphérie, which in 2010 received a Guérande theatrical writing prize. [13] [11] In 2014 it was staged at the Théâtre Jean-Vilar  [ fr ] in Suresnes, directed by Thomas Bellorini. [14] In 2014/2015 it was translated into German as Am Rand and performed at the Theater der Stadt Aalen, directed by Tina Brüggemann. [15] [16] The Turkish version, Kenardakiler, was performed at TOY Istanbul in 2016/2017. [17] [18] In 2019 an English language version, At the Periphery, translated from the Turkish by Evren Odcikin, was performed at the Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco (directed by Erin Gilley). [19] A review of a 2020 season (retitled On the Periphery) by Broadway World described the production as "hauntingly" presenting "the plight of social outcasts living on the periphery of 1990's Istanbul". [20]

In 2015 her Turkish play e-mülteci.com premiered at the International Izmir Festival. It was subsequently translated into French and English under the titles e-passeur.com and e.smuggler.com respectively. It was performed at a number of French theatres, and a staged reading directed by Lisa Rothe took place at the New York Public Library in 2018. [21] In 2016 her play Lady First, a French-language political satire, was performed at the Théâtre du Peuple, directed by Vincent Goethals. [22] [23] An article in L'Alsace noted that it was based on a short piece Ecer had presented at the theatre in 2012; Goethals had worked with her to develop a longer piece. [22] It was subsequently performed at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in 2017 and 2018. [24]

Ecer's first novel in French, Trésor national, was published in 2021. It is about the narrator's relationship with her mother, a famous Turkish actress, and links the actress's rise and decline to Turkey's political fortunes from the 1960s to the present day. [25] The novel was inspired by her own experiences as a child film star. [5]

In 2023 she held the Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in Wellington, New Zealand. She spent her time on the residency writing a historical novel about New Zealand and Turkish women involved with the Gallipoli campaign. [1]

Selected writing

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References

  1. 1 2 Boyack, Nicholas (1 March 2023). "Turkish-born novelist in NZ to research women and Gallipoli". Stuff. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Sedef Ecer, auteure franco-turque au festival Bussang". RFI (in French). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Sedef ECER" . Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (in French). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "Creation in Progress by Sedef Ecer". Memoire de l'Avenir. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  5. 1 2 "L'enfant-star à Istanbullywood". RadioFrance (in French). 21 March 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "Retour à Istanbullywood". Sedef Ecer (in French). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  7. ↑ "Yengeç Sepeti (1994)". Radio Times. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  8. 1 2 3 "EŞİKTE / MİZANSENLİ VE MÜZİKLİ OKUMA TİYATROSU". İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (in Turkish). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  9. ↑ "Sedef Ecer'in Büyük Başarısı". RFI | Türkçe (in Turkish). 19 February 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Comme chez soi". France.tv (in French). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Sedef Ecer La Rochelle festivalinde". NTV (in Turkish). 29 August 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  12. ↑ "Le parc Gezi, île d'utopie, d'Istanbul à Paris : Carte blanche à Sedef Ecer". Le Courrier des Balkans (in French). 5 July 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  13. ↑ Draman, Meriem (11 November 2011). "PRIX D'ECRITURE THEATRALE - Sedef Ecer lauréate!". Le Petit Journal (in French). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  14. ↑ "A LA PÉRIPHÉRIE - Théâtre Suresnes - Jean Vilar". Theatre Online (in French). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "Am Rand von Sedef Ecer" (PDF). Theater der Stadt Aalen (in German). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "Am Rand: Deutschsprachige Erstaufführung". Theater der Stadt Aalen (in German). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  17. ↑ "Kenardakiler". Tiyatrolar (in Turkish). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  18. ↑ "İstanbul'un Yeni Sahnesi: TOY İstanbul". Vogue Türkiye (in Turkish). 30 January 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  19. ↑ "Crowded Fire Announces 2020 Season". American Theatre. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  20. ↑ Murray, Steve (7 March 2020). "Review: ON THE PERIPHERY at Potrero Stage". Broadway World . Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  21. ↑ Cristi, A. A. (20 September 2018). "Playwright Sedef Ecer Debuts New Translation". Broadway World . Retrieved 24 April 2023.
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  23. ↑ "Lady first". Théâtre du Peuple (in French). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  24. ↑ "Lady First". Théâtre en Scène (in French). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
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