AEA AND NON-EQUITY AUDITIONS
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026 from 10:00am-5:00pm
EQUITY SIGNUP: https://signup.com/go/ruABzVt
NON-UNION SIGNUP: https://signup.com/go/gKgbdmd
Seeking:
ACTOR ONE (Harker/Cavendish/Worthington/Havemercy/ Bosun/Gravedigger)
Male-identifying. 25-35. Any ethnicity. Adept with physical comedy and accents. Will play the following characters:
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JONATHAN HARKER - 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.
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LORD CAVENDISH – Scottish dialect. Lucy’s suitor; a Scottish dolt.
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LORD WORTHINGTON – RP British dialect. Lucy’s suitor; posh, British, and petulant.
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LORD HAVEMERCY – Texas Accent. Lucy’s arrogant suitor from Memphis, a la Yosemite
Sam.
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BOSUN – Irish dialect. A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm.
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GRAVEDIGGER – Cockney dialect. A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
ACTOR TWO (Dr. Westfeld/Renfield/Captain)
Female-identifying, trans, queer or gender non-conforming. 40-55. Any ethnicity. Adept with physical comedy and accents. Will play the following characters:
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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.
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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.
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CAPTAIN – Sea Captain dialect. The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
ACTOR THREE (Lucy/Kitty/Driver)
Male-identifying, trans, queer, or gender non-conforming. 40-55. Any ethnicity. Adept with physical comedy and accents. Will play the following characters:
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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.
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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.
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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.
ACTOR FOUR (Mina/Van Helsing)
Female-identifying. Adept with physical comedy and accents. 25-35. Any ethnicity. Will play the following characters:
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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.
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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.
ACTOR FIVE (Dracula)
Male -identifying. Adept with physical comedy and accents. Extremely physically fit with an imposing presence. Uses his sexuality to get what he wants. 25-35. Any ethnicity.
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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 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.
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Email Casting@Theatreraleigh.com with questions.​​​​
