Open Auditions

Upcoming Auditions

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
September 15-16, 2024 @ 7PM at Acrosstown Repertory Theatre

All roles are open to all genders; casting actors whose gender differs from that of the characters is a theme of this play. Ages 18+. Complete your audition form here.

Actor 1

JONATHAN HARKER (M, 20s to 30s) - RP British dialect. Prim and proper and obsessive-compulsive real estate agent, frightened of his own shadow. Engaged to his childhood crush Lucy Westfeldt and enamored of her fearlessness. Once bitten he loosens up...a lot... and becomes a Tom Jones-style rock star in leather pants.

Other minor characters requiring the following dialects: Scottish, Texas, Irish dialect, and Cockney

Intimacy scenes with Actors 3 and 5

May require above the waist nudity if the actor's gender is male.

Actor 2

DR. WALLACE WESTFELDT (M, 40s to 50s) - RP British dialect. Lucy and Mina's father, a blowhard; self-important misogynist given to proclamations and posturing with his pipe. A doctor caring for the criminally insane, he has recently lost his wife to consumption.

RENFIELD (M, 20s to 50s) - Cockney dialect and salivary issues. Insane patient of Dr. Westfeldt who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, the dude is nuts.

CAPTAIN (M, 30s to 60s) - Sea Captain dialect. The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.

Actor 3

LUCY WESTFELDT (F, 20s to 30s) - RP British dialect. Brilliant, plucky earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt, she is full of energy and the spirit of adventure and often underestimated because of her beauty. Engaged to Jonathan, but when Dracula moves to Whitby, she is curious about his strange ways and impressed by their similar interests.

Other Supporting characters requiring the following dialects: Eastern European and Cockney

Intimacy scenes with Actors 1 and 5

Actor 4

MINA WESTFELDT (F, 20s to 30s) - RP British dialect. The less attractive, less intelligent Westfeldt daughter, she lives in her sister Lucy's shadow and is desperate for attention. She is immediately (pathetically) receptive to Dracula's charms.

DR. VAN HELSING (F, 40s to 50s) - German dialect a la Mel Brooks. Brilliant and sturdy German vampire-hunting doctor from the University of Schmutz. Deadly serious in the way Germans can be, she is accustomed to people not believing she is a real doctor. Strong, shmart, unt bold, she is a woman of action.

Actor 5

COUNT DRACULA (M, 400s) - Eastern European dialect. Hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rock star presence with a killer body, he is a narcissist whose greatest love is himself and his leather pants. Bored with women falling all over him, he becomes obsessed with Lucy when he hears of her strength and adventurousness. The less she needs him, the more interested he is. He travels to Whitby to find her and make her his bride for eternity.

Intimacy scenes with Actors 1 and 3

May require above the waist nudity if the actor's gender is male.