Chasing a dream which started at a young age.
About
About
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Bora is a 22 year old Turkish-Australian multi-disciplinary artist, specialising in Directing, Acting & writing. His journey began with acting, starting at 6 years old and eventually graduating from Newtown HighSchool of the performing arts. He has portrayed a wide range of characters, with his most recent role being his highly regarded performance as Ken Lay in NSW Uni Theatrical Society’s Enron in 2025.
Since 2024, his directorial projects, Drunk Shakespeare: Macbeth (2024), Old Times (2025), The Homecoming (2026) & The Removalists (2026) have all opened to unanimous praise from audiences & critics. He made his debut in Independent Theatre with Pinter’s Homecoming which opened to a 5 star review, and an immensely enthusiastic response from audiences.With a production of Hamlet set for December 2026, and even more projects lined up afterwards, Bora is hoping to maintain the momentum, continue improving and bring high quality work for audiences as a director.
Beyond his work as Actor/Director, Bora is highly interested in all areas of production work, and has various credits as a Stage Manager, and occasionally works as a theatre technician. His other miscallenous credits include Sound Designing/Operating, Producing, Videography & Marketing.
The Journey
EducationBora’s performing arts journey officially began when he was 6. Spotting his knack for performing & story telling, his mother signed him up to [Insert academy name] where he slowly developed his love for & skills for acting. This led him to eventually performing in many school plays across a range of roles including as Clancy Brown in Nanny McPhee, Oberon in A MidSummer Night’s Dream & Mad Hatter/Narrator in Alice in Wonderland. Throughout his roles in primary school, his teachers & director’s noted Bora’s ability as an instinctive actor, skilled in developing detailed characters & memorising lines at a rapid pace for his age.
In 2017 he began studying at Newtown HighSchool of The Performing Arts, refining his skills until graduating in 2021. After a brief hiatus, he returned to the performing arts in 2023, expanding his skillset out to Directing by undertaking the NIDA short course “Directing Actors for The Screen” as a starting point. In 2024 he began undertaking a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre & Performance, and Film at UNSW. During his 2 year stint at UNSW, he got heavily involved with the student theatre society NSW Uni Theatrical Society (NUTS) where he worked across a variety of roles & productions, including serving on the executive as Arc Delegate & Technical Officer in 2025.
He has since quit his Bachelor of Arts in pursuit of gaining more practical experience in the industry which has allowed him to work on numerous shows as well as in different roles including as a casual Venue Technician.
Directorial Journey
He followed up Drunk Macbeth with Harold Pinter’s Old Times in March of 2025. The play was noted as being “nothing like anything seen in the Student Theatre Sphere”. It allowed for Bora to put his love of Absurdism & Pinter’s work on stage while demonstrating his capabilities as a director working across multiple genres.
Following undertaking the NIDA short course “Directing Actors for The Screen”, Bora made his directorial Debut in 2024 co-directing NSW Uni Theatrical Society’s annual drunk shakespeare, Drunk Macbeth. The show opened to unanimous praise across audiences & critics, and was the starting point of Bora as a director who can both create exceptional theatrical shows as well as creating structured and fun environments for cast & crew to work in.
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