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=== Oya Akin is a Turkish Cypriot female activist and artist born in London, 1975. She has graduated from the Psychology Department of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She started working as an actress for the Kyrenia Municipality Theater Studio in 2000, and since then she has worked both as an actress, co-director and director with numerous local and international theatre groups -THOC, Cyprus Turkish State Theaters, Kneehigh Theatre (UK), Astragali Theatre (Italy), Rooftop Theatre and the Çatalköy Municipality Theatre Company - in the northern and the southern parts of Cyprus and abroad. She has been working as a drama facilitator for the bi-communal Youth Theatre Camp ‘Crossroads’ for five consecutive years. Her first experience working with Greek Cypriots was in 2004 on a production, in the space behind the Greek Cypriot checkpoint. Since 2014 she has worked in collaboration with various artists across the divide: With music specialist Christos Krasidis as a co-coordinator in the ‘Çanta Project’; with theater practitioner Polly Flourentzou as a co-coordinator in the ‘Spot Light Drama’, ‘Nicosia Ensemble’, and ‘Word Factory’ projects; with Skewed Visions director Gulgun Kayım and Rooftop Theatre dramaturge Ellada Evagelou as a performer in the project ‘SHIFT’; with director Achim Weiland and award winning actor Marios Ioannou as a guest performer in the project ‘Fear Industry’; and with actress Marilena Kyriacou as co-coordinator and performer in the ‘Mind the Gap’ project for the first and second Buffer Fringe Festivals, organised by the Home for Cooperation, Association of Historical Dialogue and Research (Nicosia, Cyprus). She has collaborated with performance artist Christina Georgiou in the ‘Voicing the Line’ project and ‘Line II’ exhibition and also with actress and director Yolanda Christodoulou and musician Dimitris Spyrou in the production of the Cypriot folk tale ‘Polis and Nufris’. She is a volunteer drama facilitator for the ‘Free School’ for the children of the Arabahmet neighborhood in the north part of Nicosia. She is also a trainer for the Education for a Culture of Peace project (POST-RI). She is member of the ‘Konuşan Eller’ training programme and is learning sign language. She is board member of Association of Historical Dialogue and Research, Rooftop Theater, a member of CCITI and the CT Artists and Writers Association. She is also editor for the literature magazine ‘Isırgan’ and a freelance translator. She is the part of Unite Cyprus Now (UCN) initiative.She is a drama teacher at English School of Kyrenia.

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