Emel Aydoğdu (she/her)

Emel Aydoğdu is a director and a writer. She studied Scenic Research, Religious Studies, Art History and Modern and Contemporary Art and worked with Rimini Protokoll (among others) during her studies. She was also the assistant director at Oberhausen Theatre from 2017-2019. Research trips have taken her to Israel and Paris. In 2011, she was awarded the special prize of the Mercator Foundation at the Federal Chancellery for her documentary film ‘Meine Oma, Meine Wurzel, Meine Heimat’. In 2020, she was awarded the jury prize at the Monospektakel X festival together with actor Burak Hoffmann for her film ‘Die Nacht kurz vor den Wäldern.’ She was also a scholarship holder at the West-Windfestival NRW and a young talent scholarship holder at the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW. Previous works include productions at Schauspielhaus Bochum, Junges Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Theater Osnabrück, Theater Oberhausen and Junges Staatstheater Braunschweig.