Full-Length (100-120 Min.)
Adaptation
6W, 3M

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Dracula

a feminist revenge fantasy, really.


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Synopsis

When your survival is at stake… will you be able to distinguish the monster from the man? Both terrifying and riotous, Kate Hamill’s imaginative, gender-bending “feminist revenge fantasy” is like no Dracula you’ve ever seen—exploring the nature of predators and reinventing the story as a smart, disquieting, darkly comic drama. Hamill’s signature style and postmodern wit upends this familiar tale of Victorian vampires—driving a stake through the heart of toxic masculinity.

 

Casting & Production


Casting

DOCTOR VAN HELSING — 40s+. American. A female vampire hunter. She takes no crap from anybody. She is badass – and 19th century men do not, as a rule, appreciate it.

MINA HARKER — 20s-30s. Very smart. Caring. Loyal. Wants to do the right thing.

LUCY WESTENRA — 20s-30s. Bright, funny, vivacious, playful, and mischievous.

MARILLA — 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.

DRUSILLA — 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.

MERCHANT – A merchant looking to make a sale.

RENFIELD — Any age. A madwoman. Worships Dracula. Believes that if she can earn his approval, she will be free.

DRACULA — Late 30s – late 50s. A physically imposing man. He is…. extremely confident. Strong. Funny. Charming. Sexy. You’d like him, reader – no, really, you would.

JONATHAN HARKER — 20s-40s. A nice man. A truly decent man. A lawyer; a man of letters; a slight man; a slightly fussy man. If being unkind, one could say he’s delicate.

DOCTOR GEORGE SEWARD — 30s – 40s. The head physician of a lunatic asylum.

Media

"Delicious... a feminist romp... a powerful argument for the full humanity of women in our culture... The world women inhabit in this loose, rollicking adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel is frightening precisely because it’s not so different from our own..."

- The New York Times

"Marvelous... A timely spin on Stoker for the #MeToo era... crisply wrought... Ms. Hamill has given us a tremendously entertaining DRACULA that has GREAT BIG HIT stamped all over it... she has unlimited talent."

- Wall Street Journal

Upcoming Productions

May 0102, 2026
Piedmont High School
Monroe, NC
May 0211, 2026
Palomar College
San Marcos, CA
May 14Jun 27, 2026
San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco, CA
Sep 18Oct 11, 2026
Brookfield Theatre
Brookfield, CT
Oct 0211, 2026
Colorado State Univ
Fort Collins, CO
Oct 0917, 2026
New World School Of The Arts
Miami, FL
Oct 1726, 2026
Yocum Institute for Arts Education
Reading, PA
Oct 2331, 2026
Minot State Univ
Minot, ND
Oct 29Nov 01, 2026
Theatre Arts
Edmond, OK
Nov 18Dec 05, 2026
Univ of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Nov 1822, 2026
College of St Benedict and St Johns Univ
Saint Joseph, MN