Show: DRACULA
Theater: Genesius Theatre
Theater Website: https://genesiusdifference.org/audition-information/
Theater Phone: 484-955-0610
Start date of auditions: 08/08/2026
LOCATION:
153 North 10th Street
Reading PA 19601
info@genesiustheatre.org
The shadows are calling…
Auditions for DRACULA are officially here!
Join us on Saturday, August 8 at 7:00 PM as we cast this haunting classic. We’re looking for performers to bring these unforgettable roles to life:
• Dracula – Tall, mysterious, polished, and distinguished
• Harker – A direct, excitable English gentleman
• Dr. Seward – Intelligent physician and Lucy’s father
• Van Helsing – Resourceful, decisive, and fearless
• Renfield – A disturbed and unsettling young man
• Lucy – Dr. Seward’s conflicted daughter, engaged to Harker
• Maid – Young female role
• Attendant – Young male role
Whether you’re returning to the Genesius stage or auditioning for the first time, we’d love to see you. Prepare the audition sides for the role(s) that interest you and come ready to perform.
Sign up for an audition slot on our website and download the audition sides before you arrive.
Sign up for your audition AT THIS LINK, and make sure to fill out all necessary fields. We will need a picture of you in a jpg, jpeg, or png. Please come prepared. We will have an accompanist available.
Will you answer the call?
Synopsis
John Balderston and Hamilton Deane’s adaptation of Dracula was originally written in 1924 on commission from Bram Stoker’s widow, Florence Stoker. A reaction to the film Nosferatu being produced without permission from the estate, this was the first adaptation of the work authorized by the Stoker estate. This same version was also the production that established Bela Lugosi as a force on the American stage, and that would move on to be adapted into the blockbuster horror film he would later star in — and later still, Christopher Lee.
Set in the 1920’s in the London home of Dr. Seward and the crypt of the Count himself, Jonathan Harker seeks answers as to what malady is afflicting his beloved Lucy. When her father, Dr. Seward, calls for the help of the eccentric Abraham Van Helsing at the same time as their mysterious neighbor, Count Dracula, begins offering help, suspicions are aroused as to whose intentions to saving her are true.
Genesius is excited to present this parlor horror as a celebration of classic literature, stage, film, and all things that go bump in the night!
We are seeking actors of any background with a strong sense of dramatic and comedic timing, as well as suspense for this is an intimate, 8-person play.
Actors auditioning may be asked to perform an English, Romanian, Dutch, and/or Germanic accent.
View Audition Sides
Roles (detailed sides)
Dracula: Tall, Mysterious, Polished and Distinguished
Sides: pgs 38, 48-50,68-69
Maid: Young lady (good comedic timing)
Sides: pgs 34-36
Attendant: Young gentlemen (good comedic timing)
Sides: pgs 34-36
Harker: typical Englishman public school class, direct manner, explosive, incisive, and excitable
Sides: pgs18-19,40-41,62-63
Dr Seward: Father of Lucy, intelligent, typical specialist, not a man of action
Sides: pgs 8-9,58-59
Van Helsing: a man of resourceful action. Incisive speech, too the point
Sides: pgs 41-42, 48-50
Renfield: Repulsive Youth
Sides: pgs 13-14, 44-46
Lucy: Conflicted daughter of Dr Seward, engaged to Harker. A woman of her time
Sides: pgs 18-19, 62-63
