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WELCOME Adaptations of Dracula abound. Some of you may remember the Grand’s 1995/96 season in which a more direct adaptation graced the stage as its holiday slot offering. In that iteration, Krista Jackson - director of this production - graced the stage as an actor. During 1971/72 – the first season of what is now the Grand Theatre company – there is lore of a live bat swinging into the scene of Dracula as if exactly on cue! Personally, I grew up in the age of Interview with a Vampire and Buffy the Vampire Slayer mania, so for me the more vampires, the better! But what you are going to see tonight is something very different… I love comedy but I am picky about farce. To that end, I am 100% a fan of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen. They have taken this timeless story and inserted energy, speed, and zaniness that guarantee a great night out! They also are playing with gender norms, societal tropes, and brilliant social messages, all addressed with humour as a way to hold up a mirror to who we are, what we do, and where we might need to take a fresh look. If I can laugh AND think about the world we live in, all the better! I am excited to welcome back many fantastic artists on this project who are part of the Grand family (who can
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forget Jesse Gervais’ death scene in Clue?!) and to be bringing some incredible artists to you for the first time. Starting a season has excitement in our spaces for so many reasons, but this one feels extra special. Some of that excitement comes from the fact this show has been in the works for longer than most – our talented shop team built this set last season in order to get ahead of the demands of also building School of Rock and A Christmas Carol. Our excitement also comes from the immense comic talent of this world-class team. In a season of shows inspired by so many different types of source material, Dracula in our Halloween season feels just right. Here’s to a bloody great twist on an old gem.
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A COMEDY OF TERRORS
BY GORDON GREENBERG & STEVE ROSEN DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com Originally produced in New York by Drew Desky and Dane Levens, Drew & Dane Productions. DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS was commissioned and originally produced by Maltz Jupiter Theatre Andrew Kato, Producing Artistic Director/Chief Executive.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: 13+ AUDIENCE ADVISORY Historical depictions of psychiatric hospitalization, sexism, simulated sex, mature themes (satire), stage violence. Production includes haze, fog, strobe, and blood effects. RUNNING TIME 90 minutes with no intermission. PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO/AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
CAST mina westfeldt / CONSTANT BERNARD § dr. van helsing & others dracula JESSE GERVAIS jonathan harker & Others NATHAN HOWE lucy westfeldt / kitty & Others REENA JOLLY dr. westfeldt / renfield & others NORA MCLELLAN
CREATIVE TEAM playwright GORDON GREENBERG playwright STEVE ROSEN director KRISTA JACKSON set designer JOSHUA QUINLAN* costume designer JOSEPH ABETRIA Lighting Designer LEIGH ANN VARDY* sound Designer & composer JOHN GZOWSKI* movement director CAMERON CARVER associate director† KEITH FERNANDEZ Fight & Intimacy Director JENNIFER DZIALOSZYNSKI dialect coach JANE GOODERHAM Stage Manager JORDAN GUETTER assistant stage Manager LORE GREEN apprentice stage Manager ZOE DACA § Fight & Intimacy Captain
*Indicated designers are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659. †Position funded by Canada Council for the Arts The Grand Theatre is an active member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT). The Grand Theatre also acknowledges, with thanks, the co-operation of Locals 105 and 828 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists, and Allied Crafts of the United Stages, its Territories and Canada, and the London Musician’s Association Local 279.
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE While preparing to direct Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, I went back to re-read the 1897 Bram Stoker gothic horror novel. I am no stranger to it, having played Mina, right here on the Grand’s Spriet Stage in Michael Shamata and Paula Wing’s 1995/96 adaptation. I was once again struck by how much of it is told through letters and diary entries chronicling past events. What Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen have done so deliciously in Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors is lift the story out of that narration, take liberties with the plot and characters, and throw it into an action packed 90-minute, genderbending, camp-filled frenzy. This play Photography by Ann baggley. is a whirlwind chase where all the characters - played by 5 actors - go on as they discover Dracula is the irresistible vampire in their midst. It is in the style of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and British Pantos and our team has drawn inspiration from the vampire reality show Dragula, What We Do in the Shadows, and of course Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo! It has been an absolute scream building Dracula’s world with this incredibly funny and talented cast and creative team. We have added our own flourishes, anachronisms, and magic and like the Transylvanian wolves in the play, have howled with delight as we crafted and refined the comedy it required of us. There is plenty to sink your teeth into, and I hope it leaves you thirsty, hungry for more.
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ARTISTS
Constant Bernard
Jesse Gervais
Constant Bernard Mina Westfeldt / Dr. Van Helsing & Others
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Frozen (Theatre Aquarius); Titanique (Mirvish/Segal/Just for Laughs); Trey Parker’s Cannibal: The Musical (Starvox); The Rocky Horror Show (Citadel Theatre); Le Passé Antérieur, Les Zinspiré.e.s (Théâtre français de Toronto); Frozen, Twice Charmed: A Cinderella Story and Tangled: The Musical (Disney) and Vaches: The Musical (Créations In Vivo). film & tv credits (selected): Zénith (RadioCanada), ROSIE (Photon Films), Overlord and the Underwoods (CBC Gem/Nickelodeon), Makinium (Radio-Canada), 11h11 (Radio-Canada), Murdoch Mysteries (CityTV). @constantbernard constantbernard.com
Jesse Gervais Dracula
For the Grand Theatre: Clue, Grand Ghosts. Theatre Credits (Selected): Strife (Tarragon/ Punctuate Theatre); After the Fire (Punctuate Theatre); Dangerous Liaisons, Sense and Sensibility, As You Like It, The Diviners (Stratford); Jane Eyre, Silver Arrow, Crazy For You, Alice Through the Looking Glass, One Man, Two Guvnors, Measure for Measure, A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre); The Breathing Hole (NAC); Joy Ride, Black Horse (Caravan Farm Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Free Will Players). Other: Jesse has a BFA (Honours) from the University of Alberta. jessegervais.com @jesse.gervais
Nathan Howe
Reena Jolly
Nathan Howe Jonathan Harker & Others
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Acting: A Huron County Christmas Carol (Blyth Festival); 1979 (Belfry Theatre); Women of the Fur Trade (Globe Theatre & Stratford Festival); 1939 (Canadian Stage); Icemen (Theatre by the Bay); Red Velvet (Crow’s Theatre); Stone in His Pockets, Reasonable Doubt (Persephone Theatre); Miss Bennet (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Playwright: Radio Town (Blyth); The Love Interest (Theatre Howl); Matchstick (GCTC & Persephone). Director: Mr. Burns, The Love Interest, Aiden Flynn Lost His Brother So He Makes Another (Theatre Howl). Other: Nathan has his BFA in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan and his MFA in Scriptwriting from TMU.
Reena Jolly Lucy Westfeldt / Kitty & Others
For the Grand Theatre: Clue. Theatre Credits (Selected): Clue (RMTC/ Grand Theatre); Trouble in Mind, Network (RMTC & Citadel); Perfect Wedding (TIP); Cabaret, Venus, Assistance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTS); Hamlet (SIR); Torn Through Time (MTYP). film & tv credits (selected): Normal (Amazon); #VanLife (Karma Films); A Suite Holiday Romance (Hallmark); Don’t Even (Bell Media/Crave); Channel Zero (Syfy). Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Acting Program (2022). Reena is delighted to return to the Grand Theatre stage in Dracula following the RMTC/Grand Theatre co-production of Clue.
ARTISTS
Nora McLellan
Gordon Greenberg
Nora McLellan Dr. Westfeldt / Renfield & Others
For the Grand Theatre: Many shows including Godspell, Top Girls, The Stone Angel, and Shirley Valentine. Theatre Credits (Selected): Three seasons with Seattle Rep including Pal Joey, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 22 seasons at the Shaw Festival including Saint Joan, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Gypsy. Four seasons at the Stratford Festival including Cabaret, Pentecost. Two seasons at Blyth Festival including Liars at a Funeral. Two Dora Awards (Music for Contortionist, John). Four Jessie Awards (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Road, The Matchmaker, Casey and Diana). Upcoming: Jackpot Twins (The Company Theatre/Off-Mirvish). film & tv credits (selected): Orphan Black, Saving Hope, Hudson & Rex, Revival, Sister Rose on five seasons of Son of a Critch.
Gordon Greenberg Playwright
Gordon Greenberg has directed on Broadway, off-Broadway and in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America. His acclaimed revival of Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf? starring Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto at the Geffen Playhouse won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Revival. Other work includes the North American premiere of Piaf/Dietrich for Mirvish in Toronto (Dora Award, Best Production), Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory, London), The Secret Party: Jacques Brel 1968 (Das Vindobona, Vienna, Austria), The Secret of My Success for Universal Pictures Stage Productions, and Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG Christmas Show in its third season at the Old Globe (co-writer Steve Rosen.) He is a member of the
Steve Rosen Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, The Writers Guild of America, The Dramatists Guild and the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab.
Steve Rosen Playwright
Steve Rosen (he/him) has previously collaborated with Gordon Greenberg on the musical The Secret of My Success (co-book, Joseph Jefferson nomination), the plays Crime and Punishment, a Comedy (Old Globe) and Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG Christmas Show (Old Globe, George Street Playhouse), as well as podcasts Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors and Rolling Calls (Broadway Podcast Network). He has also co-written (with David Rossmer) the book, music and lyrics of 50 First Dates, The Musical (London, The Other Palace), The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (Seattle’s 5th Ave) and The Other Josh Cohen (offBroadway), which was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards, as well as the Lucille Lortel and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards for Best New Musical. He has twice co-written the Drama Desk Awards and co-created the long-running Broadway improv/variety show Don’t Quit Your Night Job, devising original comedy material for artists like Sting, Lin Manuel Miranda and Ariana Grande. @stevierosen
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Krista Jackson
Joshua Quinlan
Krista Jackson Director
For the Grand Theatre: Director: The Lion in Winter, Fly Me to the Moon, Much Ado About Nothing. Performer: Dracula. Assistant Director: Shrek: The Musical. 2014/15 Apprentice Artistic Director. Theatre Credits (Selected): Director: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Diviners (Stratford Festival); Liars at a Funeral (Blyth Festival); A Doll’s House: Part 2 (Mirvish/RMTC); Dancing at Lughnasa (Shaw Festival). Other: Artistic Director Imago Theatre, past Associate Artistic Director Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Holds the Gina Wilkinson Prize. Krista would like to dedicate this show to the late, great Stephen Russell who played Dracula to her Mina at the Grand in 1995. kristajackson.ca @kristaannjackson
Joshua Quinlan Set Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Million Dollar Quartet. Theatre Credits (Selected): Casey and Diana, Every Little Nookie (Stratford Festival); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Uncle Vanya (Crow’s/ Mirvish); The Master Plan (Crow’s/Soulpepper/ Aquarius); Rosmersholm, Wights (Crow’s); Hamlet (Canadian Stage); Casey and Diana (Aquarius/ RMTC); Hedda Gabler, Yerma (Coal Mine); The Sound of Music, The Music Man (TIP); Waitress, Little Shop of Horrors (Port Hope); The Drawer Boy, My Hero (PSFT); An Enemy of the People, Don Giovanni, Stupid F*cking Bird (OSU). Other: MFA Theatre – Design, The Ohio State University; BA Honours Drama, University of Windsor. Siminovitch Protégé Designer, Dora Award Winner.
Joseph Abetria
Leigh Ann Vardy
Joseph Abetria Costume Designer
For the Grand Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Grand Ghosts. Theatre Credits (Selected): Murder on the Orient Express (RMTC/Citadel); The Last Wife, Little Women, Indecent, The Comeback (RMTC); Life of Pi, The Play That Goes Wrong (RMTC/Citadel/Grand); Prophecy, Mary’s Wedding, Iceland, R&J Closing Night (Theatre Projects Manitoba); Snow White, Spelling 2-5-5 (Manitoba Theatre for Young People); Volare, Space Girl, Voice (Prairie Theatre Exchange). Other: BA Honours Theatre Design and Production from University of Winnipeg.
Leigh Ann Vardy Lighting Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Fall On Your Knees. Theatre Credits (Selected): Mad Madge, Casey and Diana (Neptune); The Turn of the Screw (Pacific Opera Victoria); Richard II, Hamlet-911, The Neverending Story (Stratford Festival); Come From Away (You Are Here Inc., Gander); The Breathing Hole, Controlled Damage (NAC). Other: Teacher and coach at National Theatre School of Canada.
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John Gzowski
Cameron Carver
Keith Fernandez
Jennifer Dzialoszynski
John Gzowski Sound Designer & Composer
Keith Fernandez Associate Director
Cameron Carver Movement Director
Jennifer Dzialoszynski Fight & Intimacy Director
For the Grand Theatre: Room, The Lion in Winter. Upcoming: cicadas. Theatre Credits (Selected): Sound Design: Death of a Salesman, The Importance of Being Earnest (Stratford Festival); Orphee (Edmonton Opera); cicadas (NAC English Theatre/Tarragon Theatre). Sound Design and Composition: The King James Bible (Stratford Festival); Macbeth (Ex Machina, Stratford Festival); Hamlet (Coté Danse); Mahabharata (Shaw Festival/Why Not Theatre); Don’t Go Home (City Center, NYC). Other: John Gzowski has worked on over 250 theatre, dance, and film productions. His theatre work has won him 8 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, from 22 nominations. As a musician, Gzowski has played jazz and folk festivals across Canada and Europe. Presently he is working towards a PhD in Digital Media.
For the Grand Theatre: Choreographer: Cabaret. Performer: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Miracle on 34th Street. High School Projects: West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music. Theatre Credits (Selected): Choreographer: Octet (Crow’s Theatre - Dora Nomination); La Cage aux Folles; The Diviners; Richard II (Stratford Festival); Annie (YES Theatre); Frozen (Globe Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (Soulpepper, MTYP & Tour - Dora Award Winner); Sweeney Todd (TIFT- Dora Award Winner); La Strada (UK Tour). Director/Choreographer: Come From Away, Groundhog Day: The Musical (YES Theatre). Other: Thank you to my mom for her constant and everlasting support. Xofc
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Director: Crash (Associate Director, Imago Theatre), The Paranoid King (ODC Productions), An Uncomfortable Dinner Party (Medusa Theatre), Sinkhole (Infinitheatre), Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Director/Producer). Performer: White Lion, Brown Tiger (Teesri Duinya Theatre), Seven & One Heart (ZEE ZEE Theatre & Imago Theatre), Evita (West End/Europe Tour). Other: Apprentice Artistic Director (Imago Theatre), Program Manager – Artist Mentorship Program & Alchemy Intensive (Black Theatre Workshop), BIPOC Artist Advocate & Advisor to AD (Segal Centre for the Performing Arts). Community & Belonging Specialist, Stratford Festival. @keithtrevorfernandez @queerkajo
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Fight Director: Macbeth (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Fight/Intimacy Director: Troilus and Cressida, Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare Bash’d); Is God Is (Canadian Stage/Obsidian/Necessary Angel); Performer: Troilus and Cressida, Two Noble Kinsmen, Othello (Shakespeare Bash’d); Fairview (Canadian Stage/Obsidian); Mrs. Warren’s Profession, You Never Can Tell, When We Are Married, Half an Hour (Shaw Festival); Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew (Canadian Stage); Jane Eyre, Gone With The Wind (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); August: Osage County (Citadel). film & tv credits (selected): Gen V (Amazon Studios); SkyMed (Paramount Plus/CBC). @jenn_dz
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Jane Gooderham
Jordan Guetter
Jane Gooderham Dialect Coach
For the Grand Theatre: Fall On Your Knees, Mary Poppins, A Christmas Carol, The Wars, Chariots of Fire. Theatre Credits (Selected): 22 seasons at the Stratford Festival; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Lord of the Rings, War Horse, Matilda (Royal National Theatre/RSC/Mirvish); My Name is Lucy Barton, The Lehman Trilogy, Fall On Your Knees, London Road (Canadian Stage); Infinite Life (Coal Mine); The Welkin (Soulpepper); Shaw Festival; Oroonoko, Chair (Theatre for a New Audience, New York). film & TV CREDITS (SELECTED): Good Sam (CBS); Cross, Reacher (Amazon); Republic of Doyle (CBC). other: Teaching: Head of Voice, National Theatre School of Canada; Birmingham Conservatory.
Jordan Guetter Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, Disney’s Frozen, The Play That Goes Wrong, Elf, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Christmas Carol, Chariots of Fire. Theatre Credits (Selected): Richard II, The Diviners, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Stratford); Don Giovanni, Carmen, Die Vögel, Il Trittico (Pacific Opera Victoria); Mamma Mia! (Neptune); Baskerville (Chemainus); The Music Man, Serving Elizabeth, Kim’s Convenience, Ring of Fire (Thousand Islands Playhouse); R.U.R. A Torrent of Light, Oksana G (Tapestry Opera). Other: Jordan has also worked with Soulpepper, TIFT, Musical Stage, Volcano, Drayton Entertainment, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, and more.
Lore Green
Zoe Daca
Lore Green Assistant Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Disney’s Frozen, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Wars, Mamma Mia!, Titanic. Theatre Credits (Selected): A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sense & Sensibility, Hadestown, Silver Arrow, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Clue, Jersey Boys, Rubaboo, The Importance of Being Earnest, Frozen, The Wizard of Oz (Citadel Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/ RMTC); First Métis Man of Odesa, Takwahiminana (Punctuate! Theatre). Other: For Julien Arnold.
Zoe Daca Apprentice Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Pelléas et Mélisande (Opera Atelier); Dance Nation (Coal Mine Theatre & Outside the March); Les Zinspiré·es 13 (Le Théâtre Français de Toronto); Jane Eyre (The National Theatre School of Canada); Maggie’s Getting Married (Upper Canada Playhouse); Infinite Variety: Shakespeare in the Park (Repercussion Theatre); Staged Readings: Consolation of Philosophy, The Baroness and the Pig, Je Me Souviens (Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal/McGill University). Other: McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and the National Theatre School of Canada.
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BOTTom LEFT: reena jolly and constant bernard in rehearsal for Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors at the Grand Theatre. Photography by Melissa Mae Shipley. BOTTOM RIGHT: set in progress for dracula: a comedy of terrors at the grand theatre. Photography by julia callon. Director – Krista Jackson. Set Designer – Joshua Quinlan. Costume Designer – Joseph Abetria. Movement Director – Cameron Carver. Associate Director – Keith Fernandez. Fight & Intimacy Director – Jennifer Dzialoszynski. Stage Manager – Jordan Guetter.
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Thank You TO OUR DONORS Your gift makes a difference. Arts and culture invigorate and ignite a community in a way that is profound and uplifting and the Grand Theatre is proud to lead the way. By supporting the Grand you acknowledge, further, and champion arts in Southwestern Ontario. This listing recognizes the much-appreciated gifts we received within the last twelve months ($100+ donations from August 15, 2025 to September 28, 2026). To inquire about your current giving level, please contact farrell tremblay, individual giving officer, by phone at 519.672.8800 x246 or at ftremblay@grandtheatre.com
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