DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS Equity Actors - Old Globe Auditions

DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS - Submit for NYC Appointment

Old Globe | San Diego, CA

Notice: Submission

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$1197 weekly minimum (LORT C) Paying at LORT B+ rates.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration at:

https://forms.gle/zGFbEgB1DhhLZoCQA .

Deadline: 04/09/2024

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BREAKDOWN

DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: Barry Edelstein

Artistic Producer and Head of Casting: Kim Heil

Director: Gordon Greenberg

Writer: Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen Casting Director: Geoff Josselson, CSA

OTHER DATES

Audition date: TBD

Rehearsals Begin: Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Previews Begin: Friday, September 20, 2024

Opening: Thursday, September 26, 2024

Closing: Sunday October 13, 2024 (with possible extension to 11/3)

OTHER

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.

ABOUT THE SHOW: All roles require EXCELLENT COMIC ACTORS with BOLD CHOICES and GREAT COMIC INSTINCTS, great physical comedic ability, expert facility with various dialects - and a great capacity for fearless razor-sharp melodramatic comedy in the style of ’39 Steps.’ The show also lovingly plays with gender presentation in the queer-camp style made popular by the work of Charles Ludlam, Everett Quinton and the Ridiculous Theater Company (The Mystery of Irma Vep). For reference, a podcast version with multiple actors can be found here:

https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcasts/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/

SEEKING:

[ACTOR 1]: He/Him, late 20s-30s, any ethnicity. Small, unassuming. Doubles as the following roles: JONATHAN HARKER (RP British dialect): he/him - 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.

THREE SUITORS (various dialects): he/him - Lord Cavendish, Lord Windsor and Lord Havemercy, played simultaneously with the help of a puppet on either side of his head.

BOSUN (Irish dialect): he/him - A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm. GRAVEDIGGER (cockney dialect): he/him - A drunk gravedigger with a secret.

[ACTOR 2]: She/Her, 40s-50s, any ethnicity. Doubles as the following roles:

DR. WESTFELDT (RP British dialect): he/him - Lucy and Mina’s Father, a misogynist blowhard; self important and given to proclamations.

RENFIELD (cockney dialect): he/him - Insane patient of Dr. Westfeldt who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, he’s nuts.

CAPTAIN (sea captain dialect): he/him - The scurvy salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.

[ACTOR 3]: She/Her, 20s-30, any ethnicity. Doubles as the following roles:

LUCY WESTFELDT (RP dialect): she/her - Brilliant plucky earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt, she is full of energy and the spirit of adventure. She’s often underestimated because of her beauty. Engaged to Jonathan, but when Dracula moves to Whitby, she is captivated by his exotic European

ways - their shared interests – and his shirtless torso. When her sister is bitten by Dracula, she courageously joins the cause.

KITTY (cockney dialect): she/her - An elderly, dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt’s, she serves as a maid in his house. Think a less intelligent Mrs. Lovett.

DRIVER (thick Eastern European or Russian dialect): he/him - A Transylvanian male Uber-driver, part Mel Brooks, part Borat.

[ACTOR 4]: He/Him, 40s-50s, any ethnicity. Doubles as the following roles:

MINA WESTFELDT (RP dialect): she/her – The oft overlooked Westfeldt daughter. She has always lived in her sister Lucy’s shadow and is quite desperate for attention. Immediately receptive to Dracula’s charms, she falls under his spell, succumbing to his curse.

JEAN VAN HELSING (German dialect): she/her - German Doctor of Rare Infectious Diseases from the University of Schmutz, she is disciplined, scientific, humorless, stern and no-nonsense.

[ACTOR 5]: He/Him, late 20s - 30s, any ethnicity. COUNT DRACULA (Transylvanian dialect): He/Him - Hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rock star presence with a killer body. The (non) living embodiment of narcissism. But he is lonely. When he meets Harker, he becomes instantly obsessed with Lucy whose independent spirit and fearlessness fascinate him. He travels to Whitby to find her, steal her from Jonathan and make her his bride for eternity.