Elif Temuçin graduated from the Dramatic Writing Department of the Theatre Department at Ankara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography in 2003; completed her Master’s degree in the Children Theatre, Play-Theatre-Drama Program at Ankara University’s Theatre Department in 2007; and graduated from the international physical theatre acting school The Commedia School in Denmark in 2011.

She was among the founding members of Tiyatro BeReZe in 2006 and the international theatre collective MishMash in 2012. Since 2002, she has worked as a writer, puppeteer, and performer for institutions such as the International Children’s Center (ICC) and TRT (National Television).

Her children’s play While You Were Away... (Sen Uzaktayken...), which she presented at a playwrights’ forum in Croatia in 2008, was translated into Croatian, English, and Bulgarian, and published in Zagreb in Croatian. In May 2012, she was invited to the New Visions/New Voices Biennial, organized by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., with her youth play We’ll Call You Back (Biz Sizi Ararız). She attended this event with a scholarship awarded by the Turkish Cultural Foundation.

In 2020, her youth play An-Sızı-N, which she both wrote and performed, was staged with the support of the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) Gülriz Sururi–Engin Cezzar Theatre Encouragement Award.

Elif also directed The Miser (Cimri), which received The Best Comedy of The Year award in Turkey in 2023, and Am I a Seagull? (Martı -mıyım?) in 2024, which premiered at the Istanbul Theatre Festival.

Since 2006, she has worked on nearly twenty-five productions as an adaptor, director, writer, and performer. Having performed in many countries—from France to South Korea, and from Cuba to Sweden—Elif continues her artistic work with BeReZe, MishMash, and Bremer Shakespeare Company.