Show: DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS
Theater: Bergen County Players
Theater Website: https://bcplayers.org/shows/auditions/#mainstage_2
Theater Phone: (201) 261-4200
Start date of auditions: 07/15/2026
DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS: Auditions
Written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by Ray Yucis
Audition Dates/Times
July 15, 2026 (Wednesday) at 7:00pm
July 16, 2026 (Wednesday) at 7:00pm
Call-backs: (by invitation only)
July 18, 2026 (Saturday) at 10:30am
Location:
Bergen County Players
298 Kinderkamack Road
Oradell, NJ 07649
Performances:
Public performance dates are October 24- November 14, 2026
(performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm; Sundays at 2:00pm.)
Synopsis: DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS is a raucous, gender-bending retelling of the classic Dracula legend that plays like the lovechild of The Rocky Horror Show, Young Frankenstein, and Monty Python. It’s a lightning-fast, gender-bending, 90-minute romp with 5 actors playing more than a dozen roles.
CHARACTERS
Important Notes for Auditioners:
Each of the characters can be played by actors of any gender, ethnicity, age or type.
Although the playwrights give directors the leeway to cast as many actors as they wish, my goal is to (hopefully) cast the show the way most of the professional productions have been mounted, with 5 actors playing the following characters:
ACTOR ONE – Harker/Cavendish/Worthington/Havemercy/Bosun/ Gravedigger
ACTOR TWO – Dr. Westfeldt/Renfield/Captain/Man-Eating Wolf
ACTOR THREE – Lucy I Kitty I Driver/Man -Eating Wolf
ACTOR FOUR – Mina/Van Helsing/Man-Eating Wolf
ACTOR FIVE – Dracula
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
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.
JONATHAN HARKER – Proper 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 – Proper 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 – Proper 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. A broadly comic character.
DR. WALLACE WESTFELDT – Proper 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 bold, 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 – Proper 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 Transylvanian driver o fthe 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 cattght in a raging storm.
BOSUN – Irish dialect. A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in the storm.
GRAVEDIGGER – Cockney dialect. A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
