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AUDITION DATE
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
10:00 AM•5:00 PM (E)
NO BREAK SCHEDULED.
APPOINTMENTS
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CONTRACT
Independent Theatre Contract
$623 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in
DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS
(see breakdown).
All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a shortedic monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Theatre Raleigh
6638 Old Wake Forest Rd
Raleigh, NC 27616
PERSONNEL
Executive Director:
Lauren Kennedy Brady
Artistic Director:
Eric Woodall
Director:
Telly Leung
Casting Director:
Eric Woodall, CSA
EXPECTED
TO ATTEND
Eric Woodall•Artistic Director/Casting Director
OTHER DATES
September 28-November 1, 2026 (poss ext November 8, 2026)
First rehearsal: September 28, 2026
Opening:
October 21, 2026
Closing:
November 1, 2026
Possible Extension:
November 8, 2026
OTHER
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity's contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity ismitted 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.
Breakdown
DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS
SEEKING:
TRACK ONE
(Harker/Cavendish/Worthington/Havemercy/ Bosun/Gravedigger) Male-identifying. 25-35. Any ethnicity. Adept with physicaledy and accents.
Doubles the following characters:
JONATHAN HARKER
•RP British dialect. Prim and proper and obsessivepulsive 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 bes a Tom Jones-style rock star in leather pants.
LORD CAVENDISH
•Scottish dialect. Lucy's suitor; a Scottish dolt.
LORD WORTHINGTON
•RP British dialect. Lucy's suitor; posh, British, and petulant.
LORD HAVEMERCY
•Texas Accent. Lucy's arrogant suitor from Memphis, a la Yosemite Sam. BOSUN•Irish dialect. A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm.
GRAVEDIGGER
•Cockney dialect. A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
TRACK TWO
(Dr. Westfeld/Renfield/Captain) Female-identifying, trans, queer or gender non-conforming. 40-55. Any ethnicity. Adept with physicaledy and accents.
Doubles the following characters:
DR. WALLACE WESTFELDT
•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
•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•Sea Captain dialect. The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
TRACK THREE
(Lucy/Kitty/Driver) Female•identifying, trans, queer, or gender non-conforming. 40-55. Any ethnicity. Adept with physicaledy and accents.
Doubles the following characters:
LUCY WESTFELDT
•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.
KITTY RUTHERFORD
•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. DRIVER•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.
TRACK FOUR
(Mina/Van Helsing) Male•identifying. Adept with physicaledy and accents. 25-35. Any ethnicity.
Doubles the following characters:
MINA WESTFELDT
•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
•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.
TRACK FIVE
(Dracula) Male•identifying. Adept with physicaledy and accents.
Extremely physically fit with an imposing presence. Uses his sexuality to get what he wants. 25-35. Any ethnicity.
COUNT DRACULA
•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 bes 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.
SALARY
Independent Theatre Contract $623 weekly minimum
UNION
AEA