EVREN ODCIKIN
PRODUCTIONS
by William Shakespeare
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
"A riveting production shrewdly directed by Evren Odcikin gives festival fans a reason to rejoice" —KLCC
by Sylvia Khoury
Northern Stage
"Timely and fiercely powerful theater with excellent ensemble acting" —Rutland Herald
by Mona Mansour
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
"Raw and poignant... Astutely directed by Evren Odcikin." —Times Standard
by Amir Nizar Zuabi
Woolly Mammoth and Playco, in association with ART, Guthrie Theater, and OSF
"Intimate, potent, and universal... The play, with focused direction from Evren Odcikin, pulses with emotion." —WBUR Boston
by Heather Raffo
Portland Center Stage
An intimate and complex portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of nine Iraqi women.
by Gabriel Jason Dean
InterAct Theatre Company
"An impeccable production. . . directed with smooth clarity by Evren Odcikin" —WHYY Philadelphia
by Jordan Tannahill
New Conservatory Theatre Center
"The cast assembled under the masterful direction of Evren Odcikin is superb." —Theatre Eddys
We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War
by Mona Mansour
Golden Thread Productions
"Each time the play, directed by Evren Odcikin, steps out of and then back inside a frame it’s established, it feels like the only possible move the show could make." —San Francisco Chronicle
by Guillermo Calderón
Shotgun Players
"A powerful production that deftly mixes hilarity with emotional gut punches and much needed wake-up calls " —Mercury News
by MJ Kaufman
InterAct Theatre Company
"Odcikin’s direction enables the laughter, while building on (and exposing) Kaufman’s better devices. " —Philadelphia Inquirer
by Lauren Gunderson and Geetha Reddy
TheatreFirst
"Sensitively by Evren Odcikin, [HeLa has] poetic audacity, imagination, and wit." —Huffington Post
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Golden Thread Productions
"Directed by Evren Odcikin, who handles its many twists and turns nimbly, the show is often very funny." —The Mercury News
by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
Cleveland Public Theatre
"Powerful, visceral... Odcikin finds a good balance between the script's emotional lows and highs, its poetry and politics."
—Morning Journal
by Kevin Artigue
Golden Thread Productions
"Poignant, poetic, and chilling... Sensitively directed by Evren Odcikin." —San Francisco Examiner
by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
Crowded Fire Theater Company
"90 minutes of breathtaking theatricality guided by Odcikin's loving direction and choreography." —My Cultural Landscape
by Plautus, adapted and directed by Evren Odcikin
Custom Made Theatre Company
"Odcikin displays a rare expertise in making the tried and true look new." —Theatre Storm
Mutt, or Let's All Talk About Race
by Christopher Chen
Impact Theatre & Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company
"Odcikin keeps the comedy bracingly sharp while eliciting the most cohesively strong ensemble acting I've seen yet at Impact." —San Francisco Chronicle
by Mona Mansour
Golden Thread Productions
"Emotions run high and strong in director Evren Odcikin's excellent production."—Theater Dogs
by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Crowded Fire Theater Company
"Odcikin's fast-paced staging deftly incorporates the play's heavy technological element." —KQED Arts
by Yussef El Guindi
Golden Thread Productions & AASC (SF)
Golden Thread Productions & Latino Theatre Company (LA)
"In a well-paced and well-considered staging, director Evren Odcikin strikes a delicate balance between comic romp and tragedy." —Los Angeles Times
by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
Crowded Fire Theater Company
"Beautifully and aggressively staged . . . There’s comedy, mystery, surprises, and sinister darkness lurking about Odcikin’s sharp, crisply performed production." —TheaterDogs
by Paula Vogel
Brava Theater Center
“Odcikin has directed the play with a smooth, sensitive hand that mines the big laughs and also makes room for the occasional poignancy.” —Bay Area Reporter
by David Bell
Impact Theatre
“Directed with anarchic élan and requisite comical definition by Evren Odcikin” —SF Bay Guardian
by Denmo Ibrahim
Golden Thread Productions
“In director Evren Odcikin's sure, organic staging, narrative affect unfolds slowly amid current of incantatory ensemble movement, rhythm, and song.” —SF Bay Guardian
by Sophie Treadwell
Brava Theater Center
“Odcikin’s stylish and intimate take on the Impressionist classic of marriage as wage slavery Machinal packs a wallop.” —The Idiolect