Lal Ensari

First language: English and Turkish

Languages: Spanish (basic)

Accents: Turkish

Singing: mezzo soprano

Music: piano (intermediate)

Physical performance skills: modern dance, contact improv

Sports: kickboxing

Other skills: directing, assistant directing, professional devising, voice over, poetry reading, improvised poetry, slam poetry

Theatre
Derya, Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World, dir. Handan Özbilgin, The Brick Theatre

Sue, Rager, dir. William Johnson, The Chain Theatre

Ensemble, writer and devisor, Winter Solstice, dir. Lal Ensari, The Exponential Festival

Ensemble, Archive, dir. Lal Ensari and Sophia Nelson, Encounters Theatre (site-specific performance at a 16th-century inn)

Film and television
Gökçe, Gunesi Sondurmem Gerek, dir. Hande Turkel, Sky Productions (feature film)

Tugba, Bir Omrun Sonbahari, dir. Gizem Kizil, Sky Productions (feature film)

Selin, Red Room, dir. Cem Karci, OGM (television)

Ozge, The Teacher, dir. Koray Kerimoglu, Fox/Medyapim (television)

Dance / performance art
Performer / poet, Vain Combat & Hesperides, Douglas Dunn Dance (site-specific performance)

Poet / performer, Salon Lute, dirs. Douglas Dunn and Christopher Williams (dance show)

Education
BFA in Drama, New York University Tisch School of the Arts