Yunus Can Ersoy

Yunus Ersoy, who grew up in Zurich, is a dramaturg*. After completing a BA, Yunus studied for an MA at the University of Zurich (Cultural Analysis) and Applied Theater Studies in Giessen.

In 2009 Ersoy was a founding member of "oimoi - junges theater zürich", is still a member of the board of directors, and has been involved in over 10 oimoi productions on and off stage. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Ersoy has been part of choruses in plays by René Pollesch, among others.

Ersoy organizes festivals (including Queer Week in 2021-2023) and has performed own works with the collective Mora Vegesture at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, with Camila Rhodi at the FACT Festival in Budapest, and with Josef Mehling at 48h Neukölln in Berlin. In 2020, Jil Dreyer, Ersoy and Mehling presented the theater performance None of This at the Grätsche Festival in Zurich.

After an internship at Studio Я, Ersoy worked as an assistant and then as a dramaturg at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin since the middle of the 2018/19 season, working with directors Yael Ronen, Hakan Savaş Mican, and Paul Spittler, among others.

In the 2023/24 season, Ersoy will work as a dramaturg* at the Schauspielhaus Zürich with Suna Gürler and Joana Tischkau.