BIOGRAPHY
Aysan Çelik
Aysan Çelik's roles on the American Repertory Theater stage have included the title role of Antigone, Kaja in The Master Builder, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, and the Teenage Greek Chorus in How I Learned to Drive. She also performed a dramatized reading of Anne Frank's Diary. Off-Broadway she appeared in the Obie-awarded production of Bob McGrath's production of Mac Wellman's Hypatia, playing the role she originally performed at the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University where the production was workshopped. She performed the role of The Woman in the New Repertory Theatre production of The Turn of the Screw and played the role of Celia in the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It on the Boston Common. She is a founding member of Theater Mitu, a theater company based in New York, with whom she has debuted The Master of Weeping at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Catholica at HERE Performance Café, and But Above All at the Access. Ms. Çelik is a graduate of the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training (1999) and UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.