Handan Salta

Handan Salta (PhD) former academic and a current critic, translator and writer. She worked as the Vice President of Turkish Theatre Critics Association. As well as several different texts, she translated many plays from English to Turkish and vice versa.  After having worked in different universities she is now  developing independent projects in various areas of performance including translation, text development, creative writing, children’s theatre, podcast series etc. She is the co-founder of Kritik Kolektif, an initiative to create collective productions on theatre criticism; the first book of the collective was published in 2022. She co-founded TheatreIST, another collective to make the voices of independent theatres in Istanbul heard internationally. TheatreIST made its first Showcase in 2022 and started a translation project with Slovakian-Turkish playwrights right after the showcase and initiated other translation projects from Turkish to other languages . Another one on the way is an international performance project revolving around the issue of immigrants including immigrant actors from different backgrounds, ethnicities and languages.