What is Buran?

Buran: (noun, verb, adjective) 1. A creation of experimental theatre works for a new audience (closely associated with the now) with respect to the actor's physical presence in relation to the spectator. 2. A blizzard (Russian).

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Buran Theatre Company is an ensemble of disparate artists creating new works in a satellite system of communities. Buran is committed to making new performance works, collaborating with various mediums to create inclusive and highly theatrical productions to investigate new narrative structures that involve the audience before and after the performance. Buran's distinctive style situates high and low culture, juicing them to a fine pulp, integrating mythology, live music, playful mayhem, autobiography, and a docket of reoccurring characters with a folksiness that invokes porch swing performance and jam sessions, instigating a theatre that extends its reach before and after the event of performance. Buran is committed to the vision of its resident artists, allowing them to explore their own personal obsessions with each company-collaborated production  

Our work is rarely subtle and always polarizing.


Buran Theatre was co-founded in 2007 by Adam Burnett & Alicia Gian at the University of Kansas as a platform to create experimental theatre work without charging the community admission. Since leaving the University in 2008, the company has had an international approach to producing new works. Co-founder Gian established her professional theatre career in Vilnius, Lithuania as the Artistic Director of Vilniaus Kamerinis Teatras, where Buran’s original concert comedy Meile be Akcento is entering its third year of performances. Co-founder Burnett has managed the US operations by living and producing in a variety of outposts to establish company relations, thus creating a satellite system of company members. Buran has produced original performance works in Albuquerque (The Cotton Plantation, The Suicide Song), Los Angeles (American Mythology, Vol. 1), Lawrence (Nightmares, A Greater Release) and Kansas City (Money Buckets!, The House of Fitzcarraldo), and workshop productions in NYC (Napoleon Exiled, Bournijka the Boxer, A Chronicle of Wasted Time). 

Now in its fifth year of producing Buran has premiered twelve original productions.

* Buran Theatre Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Buran may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.*

To make a tax-deductible donation to Buran, please follow the link below:
https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate/1814

 We have the following donors to thank and recognize in their support:

Friends of Buran ($1-$50)
Rula Andriessen
Leah Arlen
Amanda Barker
Sandra Sivley
Jenna Bleecker
Henry & Christine Bial
Blake Bolan
Catherine Brennan
Thomse Chrastka
Ryan Colwell
Will Coquillette
Brian Ervin
Molly Isreal
Melissa Fendell
Karl Fundenberger
Michael Karlin
Geoffrey Kaufman
Hilary Kelman
Hadley Galbraith 
Ben Garmisa
Natalia Gian-Buchanan
Jean Goto
Charla Jenkins
J. Marie Jones
Christopher Luxem
Clay Mallory
Carlo Matos
David Marquez
Jon Matteson
Caitlin McDonald 
Paul Meier
Tosin Morohunfola
Leah Pistorious
Megan Rains
Meghan Reardon
Broadway Pete Renneker
Ralph Renneker
Meg Saricks
Lawrence Tenopir
Lara Thomas
Iefan Thompson  

Buran Buddies ($51-$199)
Stephen Ferrell
Rita & Len Higgins
Jo Huseman
Dave Kelly
Stephanie Kelman
David Kelman
Kathy Kelman
Masha Kipp
Paul & Barb Knudsen
Bill & Lynne Leifer
Cindy & Tom Luxem
Casey Mraz & Erin Phillips
Sandra Sivley
Jay Thomas
Brendan Thompson
Kim & Joy Thompson
Ron Willis 
Roberta Wirth
Jack Wright

Buran Muses ($200-$399)
Jeanne Bleecker
Russ & Vicki Burnett
Ed & Vicki Fulmer
Nell McLaine
Tom & Vicki Smith

Buran Benefactors ($400-$800)
Thomas & Sharon Kostner
Chris & Joyce Saricks