Casting
All roles are open! We encourage all interested parties to audition, and are always eager to welcome new faces and fresh talent to the PTAC stage. We have a non-discrimination policy and eagerly accept auditions from all races, gender-identities, sexes, orientations, religions, and abilities. We encourage members of diverse backgrounds and abilities to audition. (Due to the content of this particular production, we do require all actors to be 18 or older.)
Please note: the play sends up gender 'norms,' and all characters can be played by actors of any gender, ethnicity, age, or type. ***While originally written for and performed by five actors, there is the possibility of splitting tracks.
All actors should be comfortable with touching other actors - this is a very fast-paced and physical show, and there are numerous moments of intimacy (including kissing) for most actors in the play.
The show is written for 5 actors playing all roles; however, depending on auditions, there is the possibility of expanding the cast size.
Cast of Characters:
Actor 1: Harker/Suitors/Bosun/Gravedigger
Actor 2: Dr. Westfeldt/Renfield/Captain
Actor 3: Lucy/Kitty/Driver
Actor 4: Mina/Van Helsing
Actor 5: Dracula
ACTOR 1: Harker / Suitors / Bosun / Gravedigger
JONATHAN HARKER*: A 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.
RP British accent .
*Note: Jonathan shares several moments of intimacy, including kisses, with Lucy and Dracula.
SUITORS:
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LORD CAVENDISH: Lucy's suitor; a Scottish dolt. Scottish accent, puppet.
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LORD WINDSOR: Lucy's suitor; posh, British and petulant. RP British accent.
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LORD HAVEMERCY: Lucy's arrogant suitor from Memphis. Elvis accent, puppet.
BOSUN: A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm. Irish accent.
GRAVEDIGGER: A drunk gravedigger with a secret. Cockney accent.
ACTOR 2: Westfeldt / Renfield / Captain
WESTFELDT: Lucy and Mina's Father, a blowhard; self-important misogynist given to proclamations. A doctor caring for the criminally insane, he has recently lost his wife to consumption. RP British accent.
RENFIELD: A patient at Dr. Westfeldt’s insane asylum who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, the dude is nuts.
Cockney accent and salivary issues.
CAPTAIN: The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm. Sea Captain or Pirate accent.
ACTOR 3: Lucy / Kitty / Driver
LUCY WESTFELDT*: The 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. RP British accent.
*Note: Lucy shares several moments of intimacy, including kisses, with Harker and Dracula.
KITTY: A dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt's, she serves as a maid in his house. Think Mrs. Lovett but servile and easily distracted. Cockney accent.
DRIVER: The Transylvanian driver of the carriage carrying Jonathan to Dracula's castle and tries to warn him. Borat meets Boris and Natasha. Russian or Eastern European accent.
ACTOR 4: Mina / Van Helsing
MINA WESTFELDT*: The less attractive, less intelligent Westfeldt daughter, she lives in her sister Lucy's shadow and is desperate for attention. She is immediately (and pathetically) receptive to Dracula's charms. RP British accent.
*Note: Mina shares a kiss with Dracula.
VAN HELSING: A 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, smart, unt bold, she is a woman of action. German accent a la Mel Brooks.
ACTOR 5: Dracula
DRACULA*: 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. Transylvanian accent.
*Note: Dracula shares several moments of intimacy, including kisses, with Lucy, Mina, and Harker.