Dracula Comedy of Terrors Auditions
By Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen
Directed by Chance Fuerstinger
Performances: October 10-25, 2025
(Comedy) Ages 14+
“Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors” is a Bram-new comedy you can really sink your teeth into. Filled with clever wordplay and anything-goes pop culture references, it’s a 90-minute, gender-bending, quick-changing, laugh-out-loud reimagining of the gothic classic, perfect for audiences of all blood types.
In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, a meek English real estate agent takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who also just happens to be the most terrifying and ferocious monster the world has ever known: Count Dracula! As famed female vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing and company chase Drac from Transylvania to the British countryside to London and back, their antics are guaranteed to increase your pulse and cause bloodcurdling screams—of laughter.
Auditions
July 19th – 2:00pm – 5:00pm – Dick Eardley Senior Center
July 20th – 2:00pm – 5:00pm – Boise Little Theater Black Box Theater
Expect to do cold readings from the script.
*Anyone is welcome to audition for any role – see character descriptions below*
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors Characters
This is a cast of 5, with 4 of the actors playing multiple roles. All characters can be played by actors of any gender, ethnicity, age, or type.
ACTOR 1 – Harker/Cavendish/Worthington/Havemercy/Bosun/Gravedigger
ACTOR 2 – Dr. Westfeldt/Renfield/Captain/Man-Eating Wolf
ACTOR 3 – Lucy/Kitty/Driver/Man-Eating Wolf
ACTOR 4 – Mina/Van Helsing/Man-Eating Wolf
ACTOR 5 – Dracula
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
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 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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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 bolt, she is a woman of action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CAPTAIN – Sea Captain dialect. The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
BOSUN – Irish dialect. A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm.
GRAVEDIGGER – Cockney dialect. A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
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