AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Named “Woman to Watch” by Broadway Women’s Fund (2022)
Musical AZUL receives NYFA’s NYC Women’s Fund grant (2022)
Named a New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow by Ars Nova (2022)
Play OPET Diaries named a semi-finalist for the Page73 Playwriting Fellowship (2022)
Recipient of the Interdisciplinary (IDP) Grant from the Sundance Institute (2021)
Named a Young Society Leader by the American Turkish Society (2021)
Play Field, Awakening named on The Kilroy’s List (2019)
Play Field, Awakening rewarded as finalist in Columbia@Roundabout series (NY, 2019)
Feature film screenplay ARI (BEE) selected for meetings at Cannes Film Festival via Maison des Scenaristes (Cannes, 2019)
TV series MANAR selected for Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)’s IFP Week (NY, 2019)
TV series MANAR pitched by producer Esra Saydam at Trans Atlantic Partners (Berlin, 2019)
Play When My Mama was a Hittite rewarded as finalist in Columbia@Roundabout series (NY, 2018)
Play Manar rewarded as finalist in Columbia@Roundabout series (NY, 2017)
Named Best Actress in a Play (Medium Theatre) for “I Capture the Castle“ on BroadwayWorld (Boston, 2012)