Erdoğan Mitrani was born in Istanbul in 1941. Primary school Şişli Terakki High School, secondary and high school St. Michel French High School. Undergraduate and graduate studies at Istanbul Technical University Civil Engineering Faculty.

 

Discovering an ability to easily transfer his knowledge, he started a teaching career. For five years, he directed “Reading Movies” cinema workshops at Bilgi University Bilgi Education Department. From 2006 to 2010 he taught Applied History of Cinema and Film Analysis courses on both World and Turkish Cinema at Plato Film School. In the last years of the school, in addition to teaching he also undertook the Educational Coordination Management. Since 2009, he has returned to his other passionate love affair and started writing reviews on theatre and visual art performances at the weekly newspaper Şalom.

 

He has approximately reviewed 1000 performances until today. His articles are on Şalom website and Mimesis Sahne Sanatları Portal.

 

Being an honorary member of the Turkish Theatre Critics Association TEB, since 2003 he became the only Turkish critic being an active memeber of both cinema and theatre critics’ associations. He is also a member of the TEB jury.