2611 Jefferson Davis Hwy Ste 103 Arlington VA 22202 Box Office: 866.811.4111 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Alysa Turner [email protected] 703.824.8060 x106 SYNETIC THEATER PRESENTS A BRAND-NEW ADAPTATION OF JEROME K. JEROME’S HILARIOUS TRAVELOGUE Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog) MAY 8 THROUGH JUNE 8, DIRECTED BY DEREK GOLDMAN Starring DC Favorites Tim Getman, Rob Jansen, Tom Story and Alex Mills Four Person Cast Boasts Over 100 DC Area Shows Between Them Arlington, VA- Synetic Theater will conclude their 2013/14 Season in May with a new adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog). Press night will be Thursday, May 8. The production features DC theater stars Tim Getman, Rob Jansen and Tom Story making their Synetic Theater debuts and Synetic Company Member Alex Mills who was most recently seen as the title character in Hamlet …the rest is silence. Still fresh and witty after more than a century, Jerome K. Jerome’s delightful travelogue tells the story of three young men suffering from a severe case of “overwork”. Accompanied by their dutiful terrier Montmorency, they take a boating holiday through the English countryside, getting into one satirically hilarious predicament after another along the way. Adapted from an English novel consistently ranked as one of the funniest of all time, this production will be directed by a renowned area director Derek Goldman and choreographed by Synetic’s Resident Choreographer Irina Tsikurishvili. About the Production Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog) opens May 8 and runs Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm through June 8. Tickets are currently on sale and start at $35. Dates: May 8 through Jun 8 Location: Synetic Theater, Crystal City, VA – 1800 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA 22202 Regular Run: Wednesday – Saturday, 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Tickets: $35 and up. Student tickets start at $15. Senior citizens & military receive $5 off. Group discounts are available. About the Director Derek Goldman is Artistic Director of the Davis Performing Arts Center and Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. He is an award-winning stage director, playwright, adapter, developer of new work, teacher, and published scholar, whose artistic work has been seen around the country, Off-Broadway and at numerous major regional theaters, as well as internationally. Recent artistic projects include Our Class at Theater J (Helen Hayes Nominated for Outstanding Resident Play); The Brothers Size at Everyman Theater (many year-end awards including Baltimore Magazine's Best Production of 2011-2012); Once Wild: Isadora in Russia with WordDance Theater (Winner of Multiple DC Metro Dance Awards including Outstanding Group Performance); Young Robin Hood (World Premiere) and Eurydice at Round House Theater; Theodore Bikel's Sholom Aleichem: Laughter through Tears, which he developed with legendary performer Bikel and toured internationally after successful runs Off-Broadway (Drama Desk Nomination), and at Theater J in Washington DC; Clementine in the Lower 9 and bobraucshenbergamerica at Forum Theater. Among his published/produced plays and adaptations are Haymarket Eight (with Jessica Thebus) which premiered at Steppenwolf; Right as Rain, a new play about Anne Frank and the Holocaust that toured nationally for 3 years; and numerous award-winning adaptations, all of which he also staged, including A Death in the Family (Jefferson Citation for Best New Work/Adaptation); Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (voted Independent Award for Best of the Decade 2000-2009) and many others. About the Cast Tim Getman is thrilled to be making his Synetic debut and to be working with Derek Goldman again having last collaborated on Our Class at Theater J. Tim is currently appearing as Franz in Woolly Mammoth's production of Appropriate. A Woolly company member, Tim has also appeared as Ben in Detroit, Dave in The Unmentionables, Doug in Gruesome Playground Injuries, and in the UMD co-productions of Savage in Limbo and The Distance from Here. Tim has been working in the area for 15 years, most recently as Brodie in Studio Theatre's The Real Thing and Alan in Everyman Theatre's God of Carnage. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Signature Theatre, Centerstage, Rep Stage, Theater J, The Hub Theatre, Round House Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Rorschach Theatre, and the Folger, among others. Tim has appeared on television in The District, VEEP, and Emmy award winning The Men Who Built America. He is a Mary Goldwater Award recipient. Rob Jansen recently performed his play The Tramp’s New World (written and adapted from a lost screenplay treatment by James Agee featuring Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp character as the lone survivor of a super-atomic blast) as part of the Solo Takes On Festival at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His play Ah, Eugene O'Neill! Or, the Birth, Death, and (Impractical) Rebirth of American Theater was selected as part of the Eugene O'Neill Festival at Arena Stage. As a resident ensemble member with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company for six seasons, he acted in 26 productions of classic plays-including lead roles in As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Long Day's Journey Into Night, among many others. He has worked internationally, performing in Beijing, China as Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the National Academy of Chinese Arts. Other roles include Joshua in Corpus Christi (Cincinnati Entertainment Award, Best Actor in a Lead Role), Prior in Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (Know Theatre), and Peter/Craig in Dying City (New Stage Collective). He has also worked as an actor at the Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival at Georgetown University (with Tony Award nominated actress Kathleen Chalfant), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Seattle Shakespeare Company, St. Croix Festival Theatre, and the Diorama Theatre of London. In 2013 he graduated as part of the first MFA in Performance class at the University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and where he currently teaches. Alex Mills was most recently seen as Hamlet in Synetic Theater’s Hamlet …the rest is silence and Sebastian in Twelfth Night. He has also appeared at Synetic in Jekyll and Hyde, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Don Quixote, The Master and Margarita, King Arthur, Othello (2011 Helen Hayes Award), Antony and Cleopatra, Dracula, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010 Helen Hayes Award), Dante, Host and Guest. Alex also appeared at The Studio Theatre in Torch Song Trilogy, 2 2 Tango and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Tom Story has appeared in over 50 plays and musicals in Washington DC, NYC, and regional theatres across America. Most recently, he made his directing debut with Moth at The Studio Theatre and appeared in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Recent credits also include Clown in A Winter’s Tale at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Simon Stimson in Our Town at Ford’s Theatre and Andy Warhol in Pop! at The Studio Theatre (Helen Hayes Nomination – Outstanding Lead Actor). Tom is a graduate of Duke University and The Juilliard School. About Synetic Theater Founded in 2001 by the husband and wife team of Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, Synetic Theater is the region’s premier contemporary theater, fusing dynamic art forms—drama, text, movement, acrobatics, dance, film, and original music—to create a unique and original whole. Synetic has received a total of 92 Helen Hayes Award nominations and 24 Awards for directing, choreography, acting, costume design, and resident play. Address: 1800 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA 22202 Metro: Crystal City (Blue / Yellow Lines) Tickets: Start at $35 Parking: Free after 4pm on weekdays, Free all day on weekends Box Office: 866.811.4111 or www.synetictheater.org .