Auditions For

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

By Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen

Directed by Jason Roland

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AUDITION DETAILS

Auditions: Monday, July 20, from 6:00-8:00 pm

Callbacks (if needed/by invitation): Wednesday, July 22, from 6:00-8:00 pm

Pirolo Joyce Center, 4015 Brownsboro Rd., Winston-Salem

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Roles are available for 5 people, ages 18+, any gender.

Please read the character descriptions and performance schedule below.

Auditions will consist of reading from sides.

Please bring your calendar and be prepared to list all potential conflicts for the rehearsal

and performance period.

First read through is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28.

Rehearsals will generally be held Tuesdays through Thursdays from 7-10 pm; Monday evenings may be added as we get closer to the production.

This is subject to change depending on the cast’s availability and the creative team’s discretion.

PERFORMANCES

September 11-13 & 17-20, 2026

Thursday-Saturday performances at 7:30 pm

Sunday matinees at 2 pm

All performances will be held at the Hanesbrands Theatre

209 N. Spruce Street in Winston-Salem

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SHOW DESCRIPTION

Ever wondered what would happen if you took Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire tale and put it into a blender with Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and The 39 Steps? That’s just what happens in this lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud, 90-minute, gender-bending romp. When her sister, Mina, falls ill with a mysterious disease of the blood, Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé, Jonathan Harker, enlist the help of famed female vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Their hunt for the dangerous and sexy Count Dracula abounds with clever wordplay and quick-change antics. Five actors play over a dozen roles in this bloodcurdlingly hilarious send-up of the literary classic.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

All ethnicities and races encouraged to audition for all roles.

Accents are not required for auditions, but they will be used in the show, so feel free to give them a shot!

Please note: all actors should be comfortable with possible kissing, touching, etc. Nothing too much, but it is a fairly “naughty” comedy! We will have an intimacy coach for the production.

Count Dracula: (male) Commanding 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. Character will be partially undressed at times.

Jonathan Harker: (male) 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. Character will be partially undressed at times.

Lucy Westfeldt: (female) 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.

Mina Westfeldt: (female) 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. Wallace Westfeldt: (male) 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.

Dr. Van Helsing: (female) 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.

Renfield: (male) 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.

Kitty Rutherford: (female) Cockney dialect. A dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt, she serves as a maid in his house. Think Mrs. Lovett but servile and easily distracted.

Lord Cavendish: (male) Scottish dialect. Lucy’s suitor; a Scottish dolt.

Lord Worthington: (male) RP British dialect. Lucy’s suitor; posh, British and petulant.

Lord Havemercy: (male) Texas Accent. Lucy’s arrogant suitor from Memphis, a la Yosemite Sam.

Driver: (male) Eastern European or Russian dialect. The male, Transylvanian driver of the carriage carrying Jonathan to Dracula’s castle who tries to warn him. Borat meets Boris and Natasha.

Captain: (male) Sea Captain dialect. The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.

Bosun: (male) Irish dialect. A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm.

Gravedigger: (male) Cockney dialect. A drunk gravedigger with a secret.​