Cengiz Toraman

Cengiz Toraman was born on February 27, 1972 in Eskişehir. After completing his primary and secondary education in his city, he entered the Mining Engineering department of Eskişehir Anadolu University in 1989. However, his passion for art led him to a different path.

While continuing his engineering education, he became interested in amateur theater at Eskişehir Community Center in the same year. During this period, he both took part in the stage and composed original music for theater plays. He composed the music for plays such as Ferhan Şensoy's "They Shoot the Shahs Too", Erman Canatan's "Batakhane Güzeli" and Oktay Arayıcı's "Social Anatomy of a Death".

In 1992, he left his engineering education and transferred to Anadolu University State Conservatory, Department of Performing Arts, Department of Theater Acting. He took part in many important plays during his conservatory years. "Antigone" directed by Ergin Orbey, "The Seagull" by Dinçer Sümer, "The Visit" by Ned Bobkof and "How Should the Game Be Played?" by Murat Karasu. He appeared on stage in productions such as.

Toraman, who also worked as an instructor during this period, gave basic theater lessons to various university groups and staged a collage he compiled from Nâzım Hikmet. He also made a study on dengbej, meddah and European narrative tradition by staging Murathan Mungan's story "Şahmeran's Legs" as a one-man play. He performed this play in Eskişehir as well as in Izmit upon the invitation of Kocaeli Regional Theatre.

Cengiz Toraman, who graduated from the conservatory in 1996, started his career as a research assistant at the same university. He completed his master's degree at the Social Sciences Institute, Department of Theatre, in 1997-1998. He completed his master's degree in 2002 with his thesis titled "Social Appreciation in Turkish Theater Between 1960-1970".

While continuing his academic studies, he worked as assistant director and assistant in various plays at the conservatory. He worked with names such as Mehmet Ege, Metin Balay, Ferdi Merter and Dinçer Sümer. He was also the musical director of the play "My Sandal is Connected to the Shore", and this play won the Best Play and Best Supporting Actor awards at the 2002 Istanbul Theater Schools Competition.

Toraman, who also assisted in courses such as fencing, dance, voice-speech, stage knowledge and improvisation, worked with valuable names such as Zeki Tümlü, Gülüm Pekcan, Levent Dönmez, Ergin Orbey and Erol Keskin. He also worked as an assistant in stage practice and acting classes.

Productions in which he took part

• The Fifth Dimension (2005) — Salih Demir
• We Are in the Desert and We Are Not Anywhere Else (2024) — Rıfat

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.