Three Men in a Boat

May 8, 2014 >> June 8, 2014

Written and directed by Derek Goldman
Based on the novella by Jerome K. Jerome

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 country, getting into one satirically hilarious predicament after another along the way. Adapted from a 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 Irina Tsikurishvili. This production runs one hour and forty minutes with no intermission.

Featuring DC theater favorites – Tim Getman, Tom Story, Rob Jansen, and Alex Mills (Hamlet).

Directed by Derek Goldman

Choreographed by Irina Tsikurishvili

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.