Audition Notices

Please bring a resume and headshot. If a headshot is not available, we will request to take a photo at the audition.

MR. SIPOS

Senior clerk. 50s

MR. STEVEN KADAR

Lothario, 40s clerk. 30s

MISS AMALIA BALASH

Clerk. 20s

MISS ILONA RITTER

Clerk. 30s/40s

MISS ELIZABETH MOLNAR

40s/50s

ARPAD NOVACK

Delivery boy/clerk. 20s

FRITZ

Delivery boy, teenager

A POLICEMAN

Also doubles as a customer, 30s

A DETECTIVE

Also doubles as a customer, 30s

A YOUNG WOMAN

A customer in store, 20s

AN OLD GENTLEMAN

60s/70s

VARIOUS CUSTOMERS

Perhaps two. Any age.

CAROL FLEISHER, any age 30+. Concerned with appearances and deeply unhappy. She has a “In this house we believe…” placard on her lawn, but signs petitions to block affordable housing in her neighborhood. Carol knows what she wants, and knows she deserves it, no matter what...

PAM ANNUNZIATA, any age 30+. Brash, fiercely loving, and prepared for the worst. She has two emergency radios, rations, and a go bag in her SUV. She just wants her loved ones to be safe...

RENEE SHAPIRO-EPPS, any age 30+. She’s smart, competitive, and forward-thinking. She’s the only woman of color on the masthead of an interior design magazine, a job she worked very hard to obtain. She dated a woman in college, and likes to remind people of this. She wants to feel valued...

BETH WANN, any age 25+. Wispy, quiet, a little lost since her husband left her - something she didn’t expect but her friends did. She has no income and is thinking of selling her house. Beth wants something, but she isn’t sure what; maybe she wants to be saved...

The role of Diane has been cast. Some roles will require staged intimacy.

The casting of this play hopes to be as inclusive as possible. All women actors able to portray the characters within the age ranges listed are encouraged to audition. BIPOC and TGNC actors are especially encouraged to audition. For more information, contact the director at bridget.s.dunne@gmail.com

Mina (female, 20's-30's):  Wife to solicitor Jonathan Harker. Worrisome, indulgent on chloral.  Wants to be a good wife ... on the surface. (British dialect)

Lucy (female, 20's-30's): Mina's best friend. Enjoys being the center of attention; flirtatious, dangerous. Knows how to get what she wants. (British dialect)

Jonathan Harker (male, 20's-30's): Dutiful solicitor at first, ravenous blood-thirsty revenant at last. An amalgam of Harker and Renfield from Bram Stoker's novel. (British dialect)

Dracula (male 30's-50's): Bringer of death and destruction, tantalizing, comical; must play a variety of ages and personas in the script. (Romanian dialect)

Dr. Seward (male 30's-40's): Director of asylum for the criminally insane. Not so secretly in love with Mina and Lucy. Desires to be a better man of science than he actually is. (British dialect)

Van Helsing (male 50's-60's): Seward's mentor. A man of science and metaphysical study. A bedwetter. (Dutch dialect)

Simmons (male 30's-60's): The muscle of the asylum. A lover of drink and women. Possibly was a pirate. (Cockney dialect)

Quincey Morris (male 20's-30's): A simple American. Lucy's suitor. A sore thumb to Seward and blood donor to his betrothed. Bleeds sand. (Southern American dialect)

The Vampyrettes (3 females, any age): The brides of Dracula. Also play multiple characters in the show. Comic relief, seductresses, musicians. They function like a Greek chorus at some points and are in a good majority of the show. (varying accents based on character's origins; musical and dance experience a plus.

Two actors, any gender, any age 20s-40s

From the director:The connection between the two characters is the most important thing and I am looking for two actors regardless of race, gender, and sexuality who show they can make strong choices, and change attitude, posture, and demeanor in an instant while maintaining a strong specific character and connection. LGBTQ and BIPOC are encouraged to audition.

Roland (Late 20s to early 40s Male-identifying, any ethnicity) A beekeeper. A grounded individual who loves bees, and the natural world; a bit awkward, shy, but smart, compassionate, and loving. (British accent)

Marianne (Late 20s to early 40s Female-identifying, any ethnicity) A theoretical physicist, interested in the multiverse concept of the universe. Intelligent, quick, and bold but vastly aware of mortality, dealing with a degenerative disorder (British accent)

Roles are available for 3 women ages 30 - 45 and 1 man age 40 - 55.

ESTHER. 30 to 45 years old, all ethnicities woman. Jewish immigrant from Czechoslovakia, reserved but passionate. Her husband was an American soldier who died fighting in World War II; the rest of her family died in concentration camps. Eshter fled Europe before WWII because her father found out that she loved a woman. This is a huge part of her character. Character is LGBTQ.

LYNLEY. 30 to 45 years old, African, Black, Mixed Ethnicity woman. (1955). African American woman from Alabama, friendly, formidable. Her husband was an American soldier who died in the Port Chicago munitions disaster. Lynley grew up in the Jim Crow South. She is forced to confront her feelings for Esther during the play. Lynley is LGBTQ.

CASSIE. 25 to 45 years old, all ethnicities woman, transgender woman, nonbinary. (2015). Working class Chicagoan, recovering alcoholic, former military, gruff exterior but kind-hearted with high moral standards.

HAL. 40 to 55 years old, all ethnicities man, transgender man. (2015). New to the job, new to being divorced, feeling very wronged and thereby losing his grasp on right and wrong. Not a bad guy, but not in a good place.