Yes, this is as much fun as it looks. Want to become part of the City Lights team? Here we post opportunities as they arise: jobs, internships, volunteer positions, and other gigs. This page is also the place to learn about upcoming auditions.
Join the City Lights team
The theater is seeking carpenters, electricians, and one audio technician for the 2025-26 season. Help bring our exciting 44th season to life, from the madcap Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors to the innovative viral musical Ride the Cyclone. Contact production manager Ron Gasparinetti at ron@cltc.org or 650-759-5345.
Auditions
Rehearsals start Monday, Aug. 4. Showtimes are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m., with one 2 p.m. Saturday matinee on Oct. 11 and one 7:30 Wednesday show on Oct. 15. (No performance on Sunday, Sept. 28.)
Auditions are at City Lights, 529 S. Second St., downtown San Jose, on June 21. All actors will be seen in one-hour time block groups: 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. To secure a space at auditions, email casting director Ivette Deltoro with your confirmation of attendance, preferred time block, and your latest headshot and resume. (We are currently not accepting video submissions, since we’re seeing people in groups to gauge chemistry.)
Please note that most roles require the use of at least a British accent (more details in character descriptions below). We ask that you do your best to use needed accents during the auditions. Sides will be shared after your confirmation of attendance. An audition form will also be sent for you to mark any conflicts prior to your audition.
All actors in this production will be given a $15 meal per diem for every rehearsal they are called to and for each performance.
Character breakdown & descriptions: The play is written for 5-6 actor tracks, with most actors doubling as other characters (with the exception of the actor playing Dracula).
Actor 1: Jonathan Harker (potentially others)
Actor 2: Dr. Westfeldt (and others)
Actor 3: Lucy Westfeldt (and others)
Actor 4: Mina Westfeldt / Dr. Van Helsing (and others)
Actor 5: Dracula (only)
Actor 6: Other characters (potential)
Here are the character descriptions provided by the playwrights:
COUNT DRACULA: Commanding European dialect. Hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rockstar 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: 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 à 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: RP British dialect. Lucy’s suitor; posh, British, and petulant.
LORD HAVEMERCY: Texas accent. Lucy’s arrogant suitor from Memphis, à 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.