DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS - NYC EPA
PRODUCING ORG TBD
SIGNUP INFO
Signups begin Mar 17, 11:45 am (EST)
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036
Fri, Mar 24, 2023
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM (EST)
Break: 1:00-2:00pm
Off Broadway
$772 weekly minimum (Category A)
Equity actors for roles in DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
Please prepare a short comedic monologue. Bring a copy of your headshot and resume.
Producers: Drew & Dane Productions (Drew Desky & Dane Levens, Producers/Clayton Howe, Associate Producer)
Executive Producer: Dori Berinstein
Written By: Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen
Director: Gordon Greenberg
General Manager: Live Wire Theatrical (Chris Aniello)
Casting: JZ Casting
Casting Directors: Geoff Josselson, CSA and Katja Zarolinski, CSA (one or both may attend)
First Rehearsal: on/about August 7, 2023
First Preview: on/about September 5, 2023
Opening: on/about September 19, 2023
(12 weeks with possible extension)
OTHER
New World Stages
An Equity monitor will be provided.
EPA Procedures are in effect for audition.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
Studio A can accommodate no more than 52 individuals at a time.
Studio B can accommodate no more than 28 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 80 individuals at a time.
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 at
https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcast/dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors/ .
[TRACK 1]: He/Him, late 20’s - 30s, any ethnicity. Small, unassuming. Plays 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.
[TRACK 2]: She/Her, 40s-60s, any ethnicity. Plays 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.
[TRACK 3]: She/Her, 20s-30, any ethnicity. Plays 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.
[TRACK 4]: He/Him, 40s-50s, any ethnicity. Plays 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.
[TRACK 5]: - CAST He/Him, 20’s - 30s, any ethnicity. Plays:
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.
[2 Understudies]: He/Him, She/Her, They/Them. 20s-50s, any ethnicities. Versatile comics to cover multiple roles listed above.
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