Buran Company
Artistic Directors: Adam R. Burnett & Jud Knudsen
Literary Manager: Lara Thomas Ducey
Associate Artistic Director: Alicia Gian
Composer-in-residence: Christopher Luxem
Designer-in-residence: Nick Kostner
Playwright-in-residence: Mars Mraz
Videographer-in-residence: Geraldo Mercado
Artist-in-residence: Becca Barnet
Company Members: Christy Artzer (KC), Becca Barnet (Charleston, NYC) Henry Bial (Lawrence, NYC), Brady Blevins (NYC), Amy Virginia Buchanan (NYC), Adam Burnett (NYC, KC, Albuquerque, New Orleans), Thomas Chrastka (Las Vegas, NV), Alicia Gian (Vilnius), Hilary Kelman (NYC), Jud Knudsen (Minneapolis, KC), Nick Kostner (NYC), Ben Leifer (NYC, KC, New Orleans), Christopher Luxem (NYC, Lawrence, New Orleans, Chicago), Marius Maciulis (Vilnius), Geraldo Mercado (Brooklyn, NY), Ariana Miner (Las Vegas, NV), Mars Mráz (Albuquerque), Erin Phillips Mraz (Albuquerque), Summer Olsson (Albuquerque), Ruth Palileo (Las Vegas, NV), Val Smith (KC), Lara Thomas Ducey (LA), & Nikolas Weir (NYC & Frankfurt)
Founding Members: Brady Blevins, Adam R. Burnett, Stephen A. Ferrell, Alicia Gian, Jud Knudsen, Christopher Luxem, and Lara Thomas Ducey
Contact:
Adam Burnett: burantheatre.adam@gmail.com
Jud Knudsen: burantheatre.jud@gmail.com
Lara Thomas Ducey: burantheatre.lara@gmail.com
Literary Manager: Lara Thomas Ducey
Associate Artistic Director: Alicia Gian
Composer-in-residence: Christopher Luxem
Designer-in-residence: Nick Kostner
Playwright-in-residence: Mars Mraz
Videographer-in-residence: Geraldo Mercado
Artist-in-residence: Becca Barnet
Company Members: Christy Artzer (KC), Becca Barnet (Charleston, NYC) Henry Bial (Lawrence, NYC), Brady Blevins (NYC), Amy Virginia Buchanan (NYC), Adam Burnett (NYC, KC, Albuquerque, New Orleans), Thomas Chrastka (Las Vegas, NV), Alicia Gian (Vilnius), Hilary Kelman (NYC), Jud Knudsen (Minneapolis, KC), Nick Kostner (NYC), Ben Leifer (NYC, KC, New Orleans), Christopher Luxem (NYC, Lawrence, New Orleans, Chicago), Marius Maciulis (Vilnius), Geraldo Mercado (Brooklyn, NY), Ariana Miner (Las Vegas, NV), Mars Mráz (Albuquerque), Erin Phillips Mraz (Albuquerque), Summer Olsson (Albuquerque), Ruth Palileo (Las Vegas, NV), Val Smith (KC), Lara Thomas Ducey (LA), & Nikolas Weir (NYC & Frankfurt)
Founding Members: Brady Blevins, Adam R. Burnett, Stephen A. Ferrell, Alicia Gian, Jud Knudsen, Christopher Luxem, and Lara Thomas Ducey
Contact:
Adam Burnett: burantheatre.adam@gmail.com
Jud Knudsen: burantheatre.jud@gmail.com
Lara Thomas Ducey: burantheatre.lara@gmail.com
ADAM R. BURNETT (Artistic Director)
New York, NY
Adam Burnett is a theatre artist, writer, and producer living, most of the time, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Buran Theatre Company. With Buran Adam has directed workshops and productions of Beneath the Bed, The Next Great Thing, The Sensualist, A Greater Release, All Men Are Whores (David Mamet), Nightmares: An Artful Demonstration of the Sublime (a semi-finalist for the 2009 O'Neill Playwrights Lab), Enormous Weight (Carlo Matos) Napoleon Exiled!, Money Buckets! The Untold Story of FDR, and The Cotton Plantation (Mars Mraz), with the Bath House Players at Helen Hocker Theatre Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dream Coat, for The Words Afire Festival at U. New Mexico That One Forbidden Thing by Erin Phillips. As a playwright Adam has worked with MET Ensemble and Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO; Title:Point Productions, Dixon Place, and LaMaMa ETC in New York City; Helen Hocker Theatre in Topeka, KS; The Vortex in Albuquerque, NM; and Elfu Teatras in Vilnius, Lithuania. In November 2007 the first play in his "Chopin Cycle", The Death of Romance, premiered at the University of Kansas in the William Inge Theatre. The second play in the cycle, Prelude; Shores of Lake Michigan, premiered at the Helen Hocker Theatre in Topeka, KS in September 2009. Most recently Adam has written the book to two musicals which have premiered in Vilnius, Lithuania - Meile be Akcento (2009) and The Canary (2010), both under the direction of Buran co-founder, Alicia Gian. As a performer Adam has performed in the Buran productions of A Greater Release and The House of Fitzcarraldo. Adam holds degrees in Film and Theatre from the University of Kansas.
Adam Burnett is a theatre artist, writer, and producer living, most of the time, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Buran Theatre Company. With Buran Adam has directed workshops and productions of Beneath the Bed, The Next Great Thing, The Sensualist, A Greater Release, All Men Are Whores (David Mamet), Nightmares: An Artful Demonstration of the Sublime (a semi-finalist for the 2009 O'Neill Playwrights Lab), Enormous Weight (Carlo Matos) Napoleon Exiled!, Money Buckets! The Untold Story of FDR, and The Cotton Plantation (Mars Mraz), with the Bath House Players at Helen Hocker Theatre Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dream Coat, for The Words Afire Festival at U. New Mexico That One Forbidden Thing by Erin Phillips. As a playwright Adam has worked with MET Ensemble and Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO; Title:Point Productions, Dixon Place, and LaMaMa ETC in New York City; Helen Hocker Theatre in Topeka, KS; The Vortex in Albuquerque, NM; and Elfu Teatras in Vilnius, Lithuania. In November 2007 the first play in his "Chopin Cycle", The Death of Romance, premiered at the University of Kansas in the William Inge Theatre. The second play in the cycle, Prelude; Shores of Lake Michigan, premiered at the Helen Hocker Theatre in Topeka, KS in September 2009. Most recently Adam has written the book to two musicals which have premiered in Vilnius, Lithuania - Meile be Akcento (2009) and The Canary (2010), both under the direction of Buran co-founder, Alicia Gian. As a performer Adam has performed in the Buran productions of A Greater Release and The House of Fitzcarraldo. Adam holds degrees in Film and Theatre from the University of Kansas.
JUD KNUDSEN (Artistic Director)
Minneapolis, MN
Justin Knudsen is a theatre artist hailing from Lakeville, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 2007 with B.A. degrees in both Theatre and Literature. While at KU he appeared in productions of Guys and Dolls (Big Jules), Hay Fever (Simon Bliss), Three Sister (Solyony), The Fantasticks (Henry, The Actor), Candide (Voltaire), You Can’t Take It With You (Paul Sycamore), and George Dandin (George Dandin), among others. As well as being co-artistic director and a founding member, Justin has performed in several productions with Buran including Beneath the Bed (Paul Brown), The Next Great Thing (Brad Bradley), A Greater Release (Charlie), Nightmares… (Fuseli/Adam R. Burnett), Enormous Weight (Galo), Napoleon Exiled! (Napoleon Bonaparte), Money Buckets! The Untold Story of FDR (Groucho Marx/FDR), and The House of Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski) . Some highlights of the past few years have been acting in the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s playwriting intensive led by playwright Arthur Kopit and sharing in a production of Homer’s Odyssey which attended the RITU festival in Liege, Belgium.
Justin Knudsen is a theatre artist hailing from Lakeville, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 2007 with B.A. degrees in both Theatre and Literature. While at KU he appeared in productions of Guys and Dolls (Big Jules), Hay Fever (Simon Bliss), Three Sister (Solyony), The Fantasticks (Henry, The Actor), Candide (Voltaire), You Can’t Take It With You (Paul Sycamore), and George Dandin (George Dandin), among others. As well as being co-artistic director and a founding member, Justin has performed in several productions with Buran including Beneath the Bed (Paul Brown), The Next Great Thing (Brad Bradley), A Greater Release (Charlie), Nightmares… (Fuseli/Adam R. Burnett), Enormous Weight (Galo), Napoleon Exiled! (Napoleon Bonaparte), Money Buckets! The Untold Story of FDR (Groucho Marx/FDR), and The House of Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski) . Some highlights of the past few years have been acting in the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s playwriting intensive led by playwright Arthur Kopit and sharing in a production of Homer’s Odyssey which attended the RITU festival in Liege, Belgium.
LARA THOMAS DUCEY (Literary Manager)
Los Angeles, CA
Lara Thomas Ducey is an actor and director from Overland Park, Kansas. In the Spring of 2008 she graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and English and moved to Los Angeles, CA. Since moving there she has appeared in SRO productions Bagage. Lara has been involved with several Buran productions including Beneath the Bed (Emma), The Sensualist (3), A Greater Release (Amy), All Men Are Whores (Lara), and Nightmares...(Val). This fall she directs the westcoast premiere of American Mythology Vol. 1. She served as assistant director for the Buran workshop production of Enormous Weight by Carlo Matos. At the University Theatre performance roles include The Death of Romance (Julie), Guys and Dolls (Martha), Congress of Women (Lena), Popcorn (Kirsten), and The Brides (Bridesmaid). She has assistant directed with the Univeristy Theatre's Theatre for Young People program, including Through the Looking Glass and The Odyssey which traveled to the RITU festival of Liege, Belgium in the spring of 2007. Lara has also performed with EMU Theatre in As You Like It (Hymen/Troubadour) and The February Sister's presentation of The Vagina Monologues. In May 2008 Lara presented her workshop production of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell at the University of Kansas.
Lara Thomas Ducey is an actor and director from Overland Park, Kansas. In the Spring of 2008 she graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and English and moved to Los Angeles, CA. Since moving there she has appeared in SRO productions Bagage. Lara has been involved with several Buran productions including Beneath the Bed (Emma), The Sensualist (3), A Greater Release (Amy), All Men Are Whores (Lara), and Nightmares...(Val). This fall she directs the westcoast premiere of American Mythology Vol. 1. She served as assistant director for the Buran workshop production of Enormous Weight by Carlo Matos. At the University Theatre performance roles include The Death of Romance (Julie), Guys and Dolls (Martha), Congress of Women (Lena), Popcorn (Kirsten), and The Brides (Bridesmaid). She has assistant directed with the Univeristy Theatre's Theatre for Young People program, including Through the Looking Glass and The Odyssey which traveled to the RITU festival of Liege, Belgium in the spring of 2007. Lara has also performed with EMU Theatre in As You Like It (Hymen/Troubadour) and The February Sister's presentation of The Vagina Monologues. In May 2008 Lara presented her workshop production of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell at the University of Kansas.
