Ben Cunis
Director of Development

Ben Cunis has been Director of Development since October of 2007. He has been working and training with Synetic Theater as an actor since 2006. For Synetic, he has appeared in Macbeth, Animal Farm, Hamlet... the Rest is Silence, The Fall of the House of Usher, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Host and Guest, and Dante. For Synetic Afterhours he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in Last Tango With Rosie.

Other theatrical credits include Borrachio in Maryland Shakespeare Festival's Much Ado About Nothing, and Lysander in the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival's A Midsummer Night's Dream. His production company, Granite Kiss Productions, recently won the 2008 Washington, DC 24-hour Film Festival with their film "The Choices of Ghosts."

Ben practices parkour at Primal Fitness in Mt. Vernon Sq., Washington, DC, and studies Breakdance and Hip Hop at the DC Dance Collective in Tenleytown. He is a NASM certified personal trainer at City Fitness in Cleveland Park. He received a BA in Drama from the Catholic University of America in 2006, where he studied acting and theatrical production.