Mehmet Atay

Mehmet Atay is a theater artist born in Ankara in 1957. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in the same city, he was accepted to Ankara State Conservatory Theater Department in 1975 and graduated in 1980. Immediately after her graduation, she joined the Ankara State Theater and started her professional theater career by performing in the play "That Beautiful Creamy Ice Cream Color Dress".

In the following years, he took part in many important productions such as "All My Sons", "Shadows", "Mother Lady, Girl Lady", "Suicide is Forbidden in Spring", "Bakkhalar", "White Gods", "Galelei Galileo", "White Nights", "The Last of the Great Lovers", "Goya", "Crime and Punishment"; He last appeared on stage in the play "Gorgon's Gift".

Atay, who is also a director as well as an actor, has worked as a test director in works such as "The Story of Two Mondays", "Aşk‑ı Memnu" and "Women from Troy". He was deemed worthy of the Best Actor Award of the Art Institution and the Ministry of Culture for his performance in the play "White Nights", the special award of the Theater Critics Association for his play "Izler", and the Best Actor award once again for his directorial work "Aşk‑ı Memnu" and his composition "One of the People".

He has also done dubbing work for many documentaries and foreign films (for example, the voices of Robert De Niro and Sean Connery).

He met with television audiences by portraying the character of Peyami in the TV series "Bizim Evin Halleri", which lasted for nine years since 2002; It has become a pioneer in this field by implementing audiobook publishing as a continuous media application over the internet in Turkey. In October 2019, he founded Çankaya Sahne in order to contribute to the cultural life of Ankara, and as General Art Director, he directed and performed plays such as "The Last Night of Socrates", "The Last of the Great Lovers", "Hands Up Please", "Uyarca" and "White Nights".