Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili
(Resident Designer, Co-Founder)

Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili has been the chief designer for the Rustaveli Drama Theater and the National Opera in Tbilisi since 1975. He has created sets and costumes for more than 200 performances. In 1999, he represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale. In 1996, he became a professor of stage design at Dartmouth College. He has designed sets and costumes for the Moscow Art Theatre, La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Comunale (Bologna), Munich Opera, Habima (Tel Aviv), Teatro San Martin (Buenos Aires), National Theater (Helsinki), Kirov Opera and Big Dramatic Theater (St. Petersburg), Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, and Metropolitan Opera (NYC). In Washington DC, he has designed sets and costumes for Shakespeare Theatre (King Lear) and for Synetic Theater (Hamlet...the rest is silence, Host and Guest, Salomé, Animal Farm and The Fall of the House of Usher). From The New York International Fringe Festival, Mr. Alexi-Meskhishvili received the Overall Excellence in Design award for Host and Guest.