AFI graduate Aclan Bates is a Turkish-American film director, who divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Ankara, Turkey via various projects including an acting school and playhouse. Aclan is currently developing an incubator platform within the Performing Arts sector for emerging and established startups and entrepreneurs who work both in front of or behind the camera within the entertainment industry including film, television, screenwriting, theatre, dance, and music.
He is also a working actor/director in the National Theatre of Turkey and has an extensive stage and theater background, all of which provide the perfect backdrop for this new and exciting project.
The incubator will be based in London and will serve startups from throughout Europe and the United States, while serving as a bridge between Hollywood, London and Turkey.
2015 Directed Antikaci feature-length film starring Filmstar2014 Directed The Swan Song /A Marriage Proposall by Anton Checkhov2013 Performed in Unutma Beni as Cevher2012 Performed in Taken 2 with Liam Neeson2012 Directed Paolo Levi's Pinedus Affair2011 Directed Jeanne Beckwith's A War Story at the Realto2010 Directed Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart2009 A Taxi to Jannah, Fountain Theatre as "Yazeed" Los Angeles2009 Josephine, Studio 52 as "Pepito" and "Juan Perón" Los Angeles2008 Directed Melegin Sırları (Broken Angel) Feature-length film starring Nehir Erdogan, Los Angeles and was featured as "Hakan"2008 Lincoln Heights ABC TV "lead" Los Angeles2007 Directed Standing By for JLS Productions at the Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles2006 Agır Roman, Turkish State Opera and Ballet, Los Angeles Production, Production Supervisor, Los Angeles2005 Directed The Trial for Write Act Repertory Theatre: Los Angeles2004 Produced and Directed Ceasder Chavse Documantery2004 Directed George Orwell's Animal Farm2000–02 American Film Institute Hollywood, California Writer/Director1991–2009 Turkish National Theatre, Ankara, Turkey1998–99 Jules Feiffer's Little Murders as "Kenny"1996–98 Luigi Pirandello's Liola as "Liola"1997–98 Directed Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies1996–98 David Hare's Skylight as "Edward"1995–97 Anton Chekhov's The Seagull as "Treplev"1994–95 Victor Haim's The Visitor as "Mataresco1994–95 Directed Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan1993–94 Georg Büchner's Woyzeck as Charlatan1992–93 Necip Fazıl Kısakürek's Bir Adam Yaratmak (The Making of a Man) as "Mansur"1991–92 One-man play, Kus by Coskun Irmak, Karalarin Memetleri as "Ali" by Cahit Atay, Ay Isiginda Samata as "Erol" by Haldun Taner, Genc Osman in various roles1995–96 Turkish Radio and Television Ankara, TurkeyPrime Time TV series Ferhunde Hanimlar as "Tayfun"1991–99 TRT and Private Stations Ankara, Turkey2000—2002 American Film Institute, Directing. Hollywood, California. Masters of Fine Arts. Thesis Film: Condemned1995–1999 Ankara University, Education Sciences Faculty. Education Programs & Training. Ankara, Turkey Masters of Arts. Thesis: Problems of Training Actors in Theatre Education Institutions1991–1995 Hacettepe University, Ankara National Conservatory Theatre Department Ankara, Turkey Masters of Fine Arts Emphasis in Theatre Education and Directing1987–1991 Hacettepe University, Ankara National Conservatory Theatre Department Ankara, Turkey. Bachelor of ArtsBeth Henley, Crimes of the HeartDavid Mamet, Sexual Perversity in ChicagoGeorge Orwell, Animal Farm (Nelson Bond's stage adaptation)Sarah Ruhl, EurydiceSarah Ruhl, The Clean House -"Sarah Ruhl, Late, A cowboy Song"Joe Masteroff, CabaretAlan Ball, Five Women Wearing the Same DressSarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis 
