Artibus collaborates with many artists from all over the world. Meghan grew up in Denver and Buba is from the Republic of Georgia. We began a partnership at Dell’Arte International, a hard-to-find-but-well-worth-the-search physical theatre school in California. Georgian culture holds relationships between neighbors and the community sacred. An old Georgian proverb goes, “a good neighbor is better than a bad relative.”  

We can’t wait to be your neighbors.

 Meghan Frank 

A theatre maker and educator who has worked globally (in Afghanistan, India, Canada, Egypt, Cuba, Azerbaijan and the Balkans). She specializes in original theatre making, physical comedy, mask, and acting for the stage. Meghan wears many hats as a performer, director, playwright, designer, educator, and collaborator. She founded Theatre Artibus with Buba in 2017, and has been the a primary creator for all original work co-created by the company.

From 2012-14, Meghan was a faculty member at Dell'Arte International School for Physical Theatre. In 2015, she received a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte (2012) and a BA in Theatre for Social Change from UMASS Amherst (2003). She has given lectures at the UN, Emory University, NYC on “Theatre in War Zones.”


 

Buba BAsishvili

A theatre maker and performer from the Republic of Georgia living in the United States, Buba has worked in theatre, film, and as director and teacher in his hometown of Tbilisi and all across the globe.  In his toolbox are many practical skills: original theatre creation, character, mime, mask, clown, dance, directing, choreography, vaudeville, cabaret, melodrama, tragedy, Commedia dell'Arte, bouffon.  He loves the silly and serious combined.  

 He has his MFA in "Ensemble Based Physical Theatre" from Dell'Arte International in California, USA and performed, toured and taught with the Georgian State Pantomime Theatre for over 15 years. He was a director at Illiauni Theatre and University in Tbilisi. Buba received an MA in Mime Art from Shota Rusatveli State University of Theatre and Film, Tbilisi, Georgia.