Özlem Hemiş is a faculty member at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Art and Design, Theater Department, and the coordinator of the MA Program/Film and Drama. She received her MA in Performing Arts from Dokuz Eylül University after studying "Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy" at Istanbul University. In 2012, she obtained her PhD from Istanbul University. In 2020, her PhD thesis was published as Gözün Menzili: İslami Coğrafyada Bakışın Serüveni (The Range of the Eye: The Journey of the Gaze in Islamic Geography). She co-wrote the 20: 1989’dan Bugüne Istanbul Tiyatro Festivali (20: Istanbul Theater Festival since 1989) and has contributed articles to journals and books. Recently, she co-authored an article with Zeynep Günsür Yüceil in Dance Chronicle, titled "Memory Transgressed by Female Bodies: Civil Historiography Contrasted with Official Historiography". She is a researcher at the Swedish Institute-funded project “Artistic Freedom and Children’s and Youth’s Perspective in the Arts in Turkey” and the project coordinator of the TUBITAK 1001 project “A Social Consensus Between Carnival and Ceremony: Local, Contemporary, and Modern Roles of Traditional Village Theatrical Performances in the Republic Day Celebrations." "The Portraits of the Anxious Men: Fragile, Handle with Care!" is the project on which she is currently working. She continues her work in the performing arts as an independent dramaturg.