Evren Odcikin (he/him) 
Director and Adaptor

Evren is a Turkish-American director, writer, and arts leader based in New York City and San Francisco. He is a celebrated champion of historically-excluded voices in the American theater through work that is heart-centered, politically engaged, globally minded, and centers joy as resistance. He is committed to building his work with and for the communities it represents. He is the proud 2024-25 Artist in Residence at Golden Thread Productions and a 2025 Iris Lab Fellow with UC Santa Cruz. Recent directing: The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) by Nia Akilah Robinson (Soho Rep, NY Times Critic’s Pick), Macbeth and Mona Mansour’s unseen (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Eric Reyes Loo’s Simple Mexican Pleasures (NCTC), christopher oscar peña’s our orange sky (Profile Theatre), Torch Song (Marin Theatre), Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul (Northern Stage), as well as workshops of Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s ALAA: A Family Trilogy (Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and Golden Thread) and Lauren Gunderson’s Muse of Fire (Prague Shakes, Utah Shakes, Marin Shakes, Magic Theatre). Playwriting and translation: Commissions, workshops, and productions at Cal Shakes, NYU Abu Dhabi, Golden Thread, Crowded Fire, and Custom Made. Evren served as the Interim Artistic Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2023 where he was Associate Artistic Director and Director of Artistic Programming since 2019. He is a founding board member of Middle Eastern North African Theater Makers Alliance and a founder of Maia Directors. odcikin.com