(he/him)
Director, Macbeth
Evren Odcikin is a director, writer, and arts leader committed to championing historically excluded voices and stories in the American theater. His work is heart-centered, politically engaged, and stubbornly centers joy as resistance. He builds his work with and for the communities it represents, and has long been a leader in advocacy and organizing for Middle Eastern, North African, and Muslim creatives and stories. His recent directing credits include OSF, Woolly Mammoth, PlayCo, A.R.T., Guthrie, Northern Stage, Geva, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Kennedy Center, The Civilians, the Lark, InterAct, CPT, Golden Thread, Crowded Fire, and Magic Theatre amongst many others. As a playwright and translator, his work has been commissioned and produced by Cal Shakes, NYU Abu Dhabi, Golden Thread Productions, Crowded Fire, and Custom Made. In 2023, he was proud to serve as the Interim Artistic Director at OSF, where he had been the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Artistic Programming since 2019. Evren is a founder of Maia Directors, an affiliated artist with Golden Thread Productions, and serves on the Boards of Middle Eastern North African Theater Makers Alliance and Playwrights Foundation. Evren was born and raised in Turkey and is a graduate of Princeton University. odcikin.com