Acting
Ayhan Hulagu
Place of birth
Turkey
Known for
Acting
Credits
3 titles
Ayhan Hulagu is a New York–based actor and writer. A former member of Studio Players in Istanbul, he moved to the U.S. in 2017 and founded the US Karagoz Theatre Company and Studio Garage. His shows have toured nearly 40 states across the U.S., and his theatre masterclasses have been hosted by universities such as Cornell, UC Berkeley, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. His projects were featured at international festivals such as the 44th Vancouver Film Festival, the 61st Chicago Film Festival, the 34th Neapolis International Theatre Festival, and the New York Fringe Festival. He is the first artist to bring traditional Turkish theatre’s 700-year legacy to Broadway.
Known for
10.0Yakup, a Turkish music teacher seeking asylum in New York, is separated from his wife and young daughter, who remain under surveillance back home. When his asylum case stalls, he faces an impossible choice: wait years for legal reunification or risk everything to bring his family out by dangerous, clandestine means. Alone in an unfamiliar city, Yakup becomes increasingly consumed by the distance between himself and his family. As the wait stretches on, his obsession with reuniting his family begins to warp his sense of time, memory and reality. The more desperate he becomes, the less certain he is of who to trust and what is happening around him.
Gazelle
2026
NRAn unexpected package reunites three generations of Turkish shoemakers.
House Shoes
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