Zelal Yeşilyurt (born in Berlin in 2000) is an intermedia and interdisciplinary director, author, and playwright. She works across the performing arts, installation, poetry, and prose. She gained her first artistic experience at the Volksbühne's P14 youth theater and with the performance group She She Pop. After briefly studying cultural and social sciences in Berlin, she studied applied theater studies in Giessen and later scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she graduated in 2024.
In 2024, her plays I'm a girl you can hold IRL and Cyberangel premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, both under her own direction. In January 2026, her play I love Zelal will premiere there, again under her own direction. Her prose debut Molotov Cocktail Dress is published by Korbinian Verlag. Her texts have appeared in Das Wetter, BELLA triste, and Tegel Media. She writes and works in German and English.
