Ferhan Şensoy
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| Born | Osman Ferhan Şensoy 26 February 1951 Çarşamba, Samsun Province, Turkey |
| Occupation | Playwright, actor, writer |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Genre | Black comedy |
| Spouse | Derya Baykal (married 1988–divorced 2004) |
| Children | Ferhan Şensoy, Derya Şensoy |
Ferhan Şensoy (born 26 February 1951) is a prominent Turkish playwright, actor and stage director.
Ferhan Şensoy was born in Çarşamba, Samsun Province, where he attended Gazi Osman Paşa Preliminary School. His mother, Müjgan Şensoy, was a primary school teacher and his father, Yusuf Cemil Şensoy, was the mayor of Çarşamba. He started his secondary school education at Galatasaray High School in 1961 and completed it in Çarşamba High School in 1970.
He started his education in architecture at Academy of Fine Arts and interrupted in 1972 when he began his theater training at Ecole supérieure d'art dramatique, Théâtre national de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France. After his graduation, he returned to Turkey in 1975. He went to Ulaş, Çorlu in 1982 and later Harbiye Orduevi, Şişli, Istanbul in 1982 for his military service, which he completed in 1984.
Şensoy married Derya Baykal in 1988. The couple had their first child, Müjgan Ferhan, in 1989 and their second child, again a daughter, Neriman Derya, in 1990. The couple divorced in 2004.
Having started writing at a very young age, Şensoy's first poems and stories were published in periodicals such as Yeni Ufuklar and Soyut. By the time, he was in tenth grade, one of his short stories, Kusura Kalmayın Dalgındır Hüsam, had already been published by November 1968 issue of Yeni Ufuklar. His first sketches were put on stage by Devekuşu Cabaret in 1970.
One of his early plays, Je M'en Fous Bilader, had been played by the amateur theatre group he formed called "Galatasaray Oyuncuları" with the support of Haldun Taner. He joined "Grup Oyuncuları" as a professional theatre actor playing in Ayfer Feray Theatre in 1971. The same year, he had his first professional director experience with the play Güm Güm Güm with İsmet Küntay, Paravana Cabare.
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