Three Day Hangover Stages New Version of DRACULA, Beginning Tonight at New Home

THREE DAY HANGOVER -- the acclaimed interactive theater company -- move into their own venue this fall for two new productions filled with drinking, drama and fun. After staging several acclaimed shows in bars across the city, they will now present DRACULA and TARTUFFE in their new home, McAlpin Hall at The West Park Presbyterian Church on 86th and Amsterdam this fall. The New York City premiere of Steven Dietz's bold interpretation of the timeless classic DRACULA, directed by Lori Wolter Hudson, will run tonight, September 30 to October 17, and a brand new adaptation of Moliere's classic farce TARTUFFE, directed by Beth Gardiner, will be performed November 4 to November 21.

DRACULA -- The suspense and seduction of Bram Stoker's terrifying masterpiece are taking the city by storm. Three Day Hangover is proud to present the New York premiere of Steven Dietz's Dracula. Transylvania's most famous resident is on the prowl for fresh flesh, and the only line of defense is a stiff drink! Watch your neck and raise a glass as this timeless thriller springs to life in an immersive and spine-tingling evening of horrifying fun. Leading the cast of DRACULA is January LaVoy (ABC-TV's "One Life to Live," Enron on Broadway) as Van Helsling the Vampire Slayer, in addition to Michael Borrelli, Jonathane Finegan, Justin Yorio, Miranda Noelle Wilson, Nemuna Ceesay and Paul Kite. All actors appear courtesy of Actor's Equity.

TARTUFFE -- Sex, drugs, shaking hands and kissing babies. Three Day Hangover is jumping into politics and the candidate to watch is this November is Tartuffe. We're re-imagining Moliere's searing comedy of hypocrites and heathens for our modern age and there's no better setting for farce and hilarity than a U.S. Senate race. Coming at you from the left and the right, this fast-paced romp will be anything but politically correct as it presses the flesh and proposes a toast to politics as unusual in America. Casting will be announced.

THREE DAY HANGOVER is a New York City theater company that produces fresh, unexpected, immersive, joyful productions of classic plays in unique locations. We meet our audiences on their turf, telling great stories and celebrating some of the most beautiful language in the world. We want our audiences to have a beer and relax, then we want them to lean forward and get swept up in the story in a way they've never seen before. Past productions of The HAMLET Project: Summer in the City, R+J: Star-Cross'd Death Match, Twelfth Night or, Sir Toby Belch's Lonely Hearts Club Cabaret, Drunkle Vanya, and Hank V enjoyed rave reviews, sold out runs and extensions and, most importantly, some of the feistiest, most engaged and raucous audiences New York City has ever seen. Last year, the company was commissioned to create the hit show, Drunk Shakespeare, which is currently running off-Broadway at The Lounge at Roy Arias Stages.

DRACULA will be performed from September 30 to October 17, with an opening night of October 2. TARTUFFE will be performed November 4 to November 21, with an opening night of November 6. The performance schedule is Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM. Both productions will be at McAlpin Hall at The West Park Presbyterian Church, 165 W 86th Street at Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10024. Tickets, which are $15, will go on sale for both shows on September 1 at threedayhangover.com. A full cash bar will be available throughout the evening.

STEVEN DIETZ (Playwright for DRACULA) Steven Dietz's thirty-plus plays and adaptations have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway and in twenty countries internationally. His work has been translated into ten languages. Mr. Dietz is a two-time winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, and is listed as the eighth most produced playwright in the world.

LORI WOLTER HUDSON (Director for DRACULA) is a co-founder of Three Day Hangover, where she co-adapted and directed R+J: Star-Cross'd Death Match (NYIT nomination, Best Revival of a Play), Drunkle Vanya, Hank V and their star-studded 2014 "Big Boozy Benefit" at Rockwood Music Hall. Other credits include assistant directing the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Pam MacKinnon. Lori is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a graduate of the University of Evansville, and studied at the Moscow Art Theater.

JAKE BRANDMAN (Adapter for TARTUFFE) is a playwright, lyricist and bookwriter whose work has been performed at venues ranging from Joe's Pub to the Laurie Beechman Theater to the Library at Lincoln Center. His recent plays include The Bushwickers: A Play About Superheroes and Wrestleparty '82, or Who Is Boris Sicklehammer? He is a double-graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a BFA in Dramatic Writing and an MFA in Musical Theater Writing.

BETH GARDINER (Director for TARTUFFE) is a co-founder of Three Day Hangover. She directed The HAMLET Project: Summer in the City, adapted and directed Twelfth Night or, Sir Toby Belch's Lonely Hearts Club Cabaret and co-adapted and directed Hank V with them. She's also an Artistic Company member at Burning Coal Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina where she directed the world premiere of The Jesus Fund. She has worked as a director, assistant director and dramaturg with companies all over the country, including Utah Shakespeare, South Coast Rep, Santa Rosa Summer Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Shakespeare and the Atlantic Theater Company/NYU acting school. She holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from UC, Irvine.

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