Description:

BrightSide Theatre is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion while promoting cultural awareness and sensitivity. We encourage performers of all races and ethnicities, gender and sexual identities, ages over 18, body types, and abilities, to submit/attend every audition.

Seeking strong actors that are 18+ years of age. Local hires only (no housing or travel provided). We encourage Trans and Gender Non-Conforming performers to submit as genders listed as those of the character, not the performer. Actors submitting must have been fully covid vaccinated before Monday June 10 for consideration.

WHEN:
In Person Auditions will be on Monday, June 24, 6:30pm-8:30pm at BrightSide Theatre's Rehearsal Studio, 1989 University Lane, Unit D, Lisle, IL 60532. Sign up for a time HERE. Bring your headshot and resume and prepare a one to two-minute dramatic monologue.
OR
Video Submission - All Video Submissions due by 7pm Friday, June 21. See instructions on how to submit below.

Callbacks will be by invite only on the evening of Wednesday, June 26.

Pay: $250 Stipend

WHERE:
Rehearsals: BrightSide Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 1989 University Lane, Unit D, Lisle, IL 60532

Tech/Performances: The Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville, IL 60540

Character Breakdown

JONATHAN HARKER - (Male Presenting 30's-40's) A conscientious and hard-working young lawyer and deeply devoted to his fiance, Mina. Yet despite his deep integrity, Harker still experiences the temptations of seduction when approached by two vixens. After witnessing bizarre and disturbing occurrences in Dracula's Castle, something inside Harker breaks.

DRACULA - (Male Presenting 30's-50's) A Count from Transylvania. Handsome and charismatic, with a veneer of aristocratic charm. Dracula appears in two different states of being; first as a frail old man, and second as a stronger younger man.

MINA - (Female Presenting 20's-30's) Mina is the ultimate Victorian woman who stands as the model of domestic propriety. Even though she has a fiance, she never gives voice to anything resembling a sexual desire or impulse.

LUCY (Female Presenting 20's-30's) A paragon of virtue and innocence, qualities that draw not one but three suitors to her. In addition to her physical beauty that captivates each of her suitors, she displays a comfort and playfulness about her desirability. Lucy has bad dreams and becomes deeply concerned about her state of mind.

ABRAHAM VAN HELSING (Male Presenting 40's-60's) He would know more about obscure diseases than anyone in the world. He is a philosopher and metaphysician and the most advanced scientist of his day. He has an absolutely open mind, an iron nerve, a temper of ice, an indomitable resolution, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats.

DR. JOHN SEWARD (Male Presenting 30's-40's) Steward is a doctor and the head of a lunatic asylum. He has an obsession with one of the stranger patients and he falls in love with Lucy at first sight.

RENFIELD (Male Presenting 30's-50's) A patient at Seward's mental asylum. Variously a strong behemoth and a refined gentleman, Renfield indulges a habit of consuming living creatures - flies, spiders, birds, and so on - which he believes provide him with strength, vitality, and life force.

WAITERS, VIXENS, ATTENDANTS and MAIDS (Male and Female Presenting) Actors playing these roles will also be required to understudy a main character(s). Sent from my iPhone