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ANDREW ANTAO (Attendant) is currently a senior theatre major at the College at Brockport and is thrilled to make his Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula as an acting intern. Favorite roles include Waiting for Godot (Estragon), Black Comedy (Harold Gorringe), and Arms and the Man (Captain Bluntschli). Mr. Antao has also appeared in two shows at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre - Bernice/Butterfly (Tommy) and Flanagan's Wake (Brian). He has received three nominations for an Irene Ryan Scholarship award from the KCACTF. He would like to thank Frank Kuhn, Skip Greer, and his family for making this internship possible.

JASON BRADLEY (Harker) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. Regional credits include work at the Indiana Repertory Theatre where he appeared in the title role of The Gentleman from Indiana, as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, John Hay in The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Miles in The Drawer Boy, and Septimus in Arcadia, as well as various roles in A Christmas Carol; and three seasons at Asolo Theatre where recent roles included Robert in Boeing Boeing, George Horvath in The Perfume Shop, and Sutter in the world premiere of Steven Drukman’s The Innocents. Other regional credits include work at Steppenwolf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, American Players Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, Writers Theatre, and Circle Theatre.

CHESTER BRASSIE (Attendant) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. He recently graduated from SUNY Brockport with a degree in theatre and minors in music and history. While at Brockport, Mr. Brassie was involved in many productions, both on and off stage. Off stage, he designed the scenery for several student productions including Lysistrata for which he received an Excellence in Design award for, as well as the Department’s “Festival of Ten.” On stage he appeared in many shows, including Hair (Tribe member), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Francis Flute/ Thisbe), A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum (Hero) and Arms and the Man (Sergius Saranoff).

DIETERICH GRAY (Renfield) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. Other theatre credits include Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play at Yale Repertory Theatre; Seagull, Naomi Iizuka’s Ghostwritten, and Robert Falls’ King Lear starring Stacy Keach at the Goodman; Mother Courage and I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Steppenwolf; The Taming of the Shrew at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; The Buddy Holly Story at Drury Lane; Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, Great Expectations, and Our Country’s Good at Piven Theatre, where he is an ensemble member; and Mr. Marmalade and Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) for Dog + Pony Theatre, where he is an ensemble member. Film credits include Frida’s Rocketship; Dog Jack with Louis Gossett Jr., and 8 of Diamonds opposite Eric Roberts.

ERIK HELLMAN (Seward) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. Regionally, he played the title role in Romeo and Juliet at Indiana Repertory Theatre and other leading roles at Milwaukee Rep., Houston’s Stages Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Off-Broadway at the Mirror Rep. Mr. Hellman is a Chicago based actor, where he has appeared at Steppenwolf Theatre in Honest, Elephant Man and Huck Finn; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in The Madness of King George, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Edward II and Court Theatre in Arcadia, Titus Andronicus, Comedy of Errors and The Mystery of Irma Vep for which he was nominated for Chicago’s Jeff award. Other Chicago credits include Writers’ Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Chicago Dramatists, Next Theatre, The House and Strawdog. Mr. Hellman’s film and TV work includes The Dark Knight and “The Chicago Code.”

KATY KEPLER (Maid, Vixen, Attendant, Nurse) is a student from the College at Brockport, and is delighted to return to Geva as an acting intern in Dracula, having just recently completed a directing internship earlier this season for On Golden Pond. Past acting credits include Festival of Ten VII: Crocodile Fear; Lysistrata: A Woman's Translation; Murdered to Death; The Music Man; and Brigadoon. She is also a member of the Barrel of Monkeys improvisation troupe at the College at Brockport, for which she has appeared in several performances. Other project credits include Reefer Madness (stage manager), Black Comedy (assistant director), and Lysistrata (costume designer).

WADE McCOLLUM (Dracula) returns to Geva Theatre Center where he last appeared as the Emcee in Cabaret (2007-2008 Season). Most recently, he appeared as the Narrator in the hit world premiere of Fly By Night at Theatreworks in Palo Alto. He played Norm in the Chicago company of Jersey Boys, and his New York credits include the title role in Jeffrey at the Play’s the Thing and Nestor in Irma La Douce at Musicals Tonight. Other roles of note include the Emcee in Cabaret at Dallas Theatre Center; Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries at Syracuse Stage and Portland Center Stage; Charlotte and 40 others in I Am My Own Wife, the title role in Batboy: the Musical, and Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice at Portland Center Stage; the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Celebration Theatre (Ovation, Garland, and LA Drama Critics Circle Awards), and Woody in Toy Story—The Musical for Disney/Pixar Workshops. As a composer, Mr. McCollum’s musical ONE was recently workshopped in New York at Sonnet Repertory Theatre and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab. You can find his original album, beauty is a streetlight, on iTunes.

TOM McELROY (Van Helsing) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. He was most recently seen as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at First Folio Theatre. Other credits include Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, William Crocker in The Farnsworth Invention at Timeline Theatre (Jeff Award – Best Production, Mid-sized Theatre), Torlief in the world premiere of Old Glory at Writer's Theatre, Ralphie's Old Man in A Christmas Story at Noble Fool, Marcus Hubbard in Another Part Of The Forest at Eclipse Theatre (Non-Equity Jeff Nomination – Best Actor, Non-Equity Jeff Award – Best Ensemble) as well as roles at Steppenwolf, Court, Next, Red Twist, Theatre on the Lake, National Jewish, Terrapin, Bailiwick, Pegasus Players, A Red Orchid, and The Royal George. Film work includes The Dark Knight, What If..., and Contagion as well as many independent features, short films, and industrials; and on television, “Early Edition,” “Prison Break” and “The Chicago Code.” He also played Rayford Steele in the Left Behind Dramatic Audio Series (144 episodes) and has voiced multiple characters in “The Twilight Zone,” “The New Adventures Of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer” and “Unshackled” radio dramas. Mr. McElroy is a proud member of Actor's Equity.

BIANCA ROGERS (Vixen, Attendant) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. Ms. Rogers is currently studying theatre at the College at Brockport. She has appeared in Lysistrata and has worked on Cul de Sac, Reefer Madness and other student productions. She cannot thank Skip Greer enough for this wonderful opportunity. She is beyond excited to be playing a vixen in Dracula-how cool! Thank you to Mom, Dad, Mitchell, Patrick, Ammara, Khaled, Jun, Tonery, and last but not least, little miss Meggie for your endless support. And to Vincent, thank you for all the support, love and laughter.

LEE STARK (Mina) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. A company member of the Pearl in New York, her credits there include The Sneeze, Playboy of the Western World, and Misalliance. She lives in Chicago, where credits include Talking Pictures at the Goodman Theatre, Eurydice at Victory Gardens, The Crucible at Steppenwolf, Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and Scenes from the Big Picture with Seanachaí Theatre Company. Regional credits include Pride and Prejudice, The Cherry Orchard, and Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak at Milwaukee Rep, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Great Lakes Theatre and Idaho Shakespeare. Ms. Stark holds a B.A. from Northwestern University.

JENNIFER JOAN THOMPSON (Lucy) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut in Dracula. Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate (Lincoln Center Theatre). Other New York credits include White People (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Rockberry: The Last One Man Show (The Brick), The Usher's Ball (Cap 21), Gallathea (HERE) and The Land Whale Murders (Shelby Co). Regional credits include Touch(ed) (World Premiere, Arty award- Best Sister Act) at the Pioneer Theatre, Michael Archangel (World Premiere) at the Fulton, and Bloodline: The Children of Argos at the Hangar Theatre. On television, Ms. Thompson has appeared in “The Good Wife,” “Guiding Light,” and “All My Children.” Also a writer, her plays have been performed and developed at Studio Tisch, Yale University, A.R.T., Moscow Art Theatre and in the Literary Death Match in LA. Ms. Thompson received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from NYU/TSOA's Graduate Acting Program.

STEVEN DIETZ (Playwright) Rochester audiences will remember Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure which was produced during Geva’s 2007-2008 Season. One of America’s most widely produced and published contemporary playwrights; Mr. Dietz has had more than 30 plays produced at over 100 regional theatres, as well as Off Broadway and around the world. His work has been translated into seven languages. He is a two-time winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, for Fiction and Still Life with Iris. He received the PEN USA West Award for Lonely Planet, the Yomuiri Shimbun Award for his adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Sherlock Homes: The Final Adventure. Other widely produced plays include Last of the Boys (Pulitzer and Steinberg Award nominations), Inventing Van Gogh, God’s Country, Private Eyes, The Nina Variations, Trust, Rocket Man, Halcyon Days, Ten November, Foolin’ Around with Infinity, and More Fun than Bowling. Stage adaptations include Honus and Me (from Dan Gutman), Force of Nature (from Goethe), Over the Moon (from P. G. Wodehouse), The Rememberer (from Joyce Simmons Cheeka), Paragon Springs (from Ibsen), and, with Allison Gregory, Go, Dog, Go! (from P. D. Eastman). Mr. Dietz teaches playwrighting at the University of Texas.

PETER AMSTER (Director) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with Dracula. He has been nominated for Chicago’s Jefferson Award for his direction of Once on This Island, The World Goes Round, and The Rothschilds at Apple Tree Theatre, and Pride and Prejudice at Northlight Theatre. Other Chicago area theatres where he has worked include Steppenwolf, the Court Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, Live Bait, Pegasus, and Route 66. He has directed at many regional theatres, including Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Peninsula Players and the Weston Playhouse in Vermont. Mr. Amster has directed and choreographed operas for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, Skylight Opera in Milwaukee, and Light Opera Works in Evanston, Illinois. He has taught theatre, opera, and performance studies at Northwestern University, CalArts, LSU, DePaul University, and Roosevelt University.

ROBERT MARK MORGAN (Scenic Designer) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with Dracula is and thrilled to be designing for Peter Amster again. Mr. Morgan has designed for the theatre, theme parks, and museums. His work has been seen onstage nationally at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Studio Arena, Cleveland Play House, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Barrington Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, and American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He is on the design faculty at the Washington University in St. Louis. www.morgansetdesign.com

TRACY DORMAN (Costume Designer) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut with Dracula. She has designed at numerous regional opera and theatre companies around the country including Indiana Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Missouri Rep, Syracuse Stage, Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Glimmerglass, and New York City Opera. From 2005 to 2008 she was an associate costume designer on the CBS daytime drama “As the World Turns,” for which she won a 2007 Emmy Award for Costume Design.

CHRISTINE BINDER (Lighting Designer) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut with Dracula. She has designed more than 175 productions in Chicago and around the country. In theatre, she has designed for Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, the Court Theatre, Redmoon Theatre, Northlight, Lookingglass, the McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and many others. Her opera designs include work at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Florida Grand Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. Recent designs include Ethan Frome and The Last Act of Lilka Kadison for Lookingglass; and The Mikado, A Masked Ball, and Lohengrin for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Upcoming productions include Follies for Chicago Shakespeare and Eastland for Lookingglass. Ms. Binder has received two Jeff Citations for her work with Redmoon Theatre, for Frankenstein and Frankie and Johnny, and has been nominated for Jeff Awards for her work with the Court Theatre, Northlight, and Lookingglass. She is the head of lighting and the chair of design/tech for the Theatre School at DePaul University and resides in Oak Park, Illinois, with her husband, Claude, and son, Cody.

GREGG COFFIN (Composer) is delighted to be back at Geva Theatre Center where he is an Associate Artist. Mr. Coffin’s musicals (right next to me, Five Course Love, Convenience, The Daly News, Cinderella) and over 75 incidental scores have been produced Off-Broadway and throughout the U.S., Canada and Seoul, South Korea, including the Minetta Lane Theatre, the Duke on 42nd Street, the John Houseman Theatre, the ChungMu Art Hall (Seoul), the Stratford Festival of Canada, the National Arts Centre of Canada, Canadian Stage Company, the Tarragon Theatre (Canada), Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Human Race Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, B Street Theatre, PCPA TheatreFest, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Great River Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Sacramento Theatre Company. This year saw three productions of his musical Five Course Love (Denver Center Attractions, Winter Park Playhouse, FL and North Coast Repertory Theatre in California), his new incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Denver Center Theatre Company) and his musical right next to me (Human Race Theatre, OH) directed by Geva favorite, Melissa Rain Anderson. His incidental music for Slavs! at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto won Canada’s 2001 Dora Award (Toronto’s Tony). He is the recipient of numerous NEA Creativity Grants. Mr. Coffin is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., the American Federation of Musicians Local 12 and Actor’s Equity. www.greggcoffin.com.

TODD REISCHMAN (Sound Designer) returns to Geva Theatre Center where he last designed the sound for The Piano Lesson. As the resident sound designer for Indiana Repertory Theatre, he has designed more than 50 shows and composed incidental music for several productions. He enjoys racing caterpillars and trying to power his home with sunflowers. He is a full-time bicyclist but is considering a unicycle to improve his posture and to free up his hands for crocheting. Mr. Reischman is also guitarist in the local band Finding Fred.

RICHARD J. ROBERTS (Dramaturg) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with Dracula. As resident dramaturg for 14 of his 22 seasons with the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Mr. Roberts provides research for the IRT’s productions and works with playwrights in the development of new plays. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project and the Bonderman Symposium. He has directed the IRT’s productions of Neat, Pretty Fire, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night, as well as last season’s A Christmas Carol, which he directs again this season. Other directing credits include the Phoenix Theatre, Edyvean Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Civic Theatre, Butler University, and Anderson University. He was editor-in-chief of Arts Indiana magazine and has taught theatre courses at Butler and IUPUI. He studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University. In 2003 he was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

IAN HILDRETH (Associate Sound Designer) is a graduate of SUNY Brockport, and is in his fourth season as Audio Engineer at Geva Theatre Center. Past designs include Radio Golf, I’ll Be Geneseeing You and Carry It On earlier this season, last season’s Two Trains Running and Underneath the Lintel, and Fences and 3 Mo’ Divas during the 2008-2009 Season.

VERONICA AGLOW (Stage Manager) returns to Geva Theatre Center where she last stage managed On Golden Pond, Girls Night The Musical and assistant stage managed The Music Man, Over the Tavern and A Christmas Carol. Ms. Aglow recently stage managed the Philadelphia run of Girls Night at the Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Little Shop of Horrors at the Devon Theatre. Favorite credits include productions of Parade, Can-Can, and the world premiere of Broadway’s American Idiot. Ms. Aglow is a proud graduate of Point Park University. As always, she would like to thank her super-supportive parents, who have helped make her dreams a reality.

FRANK CAVALLO (Assistant Stage Manager) returns to Geva Theatre Center where he has stage managed numerous productions, including The Music Man, A Raisin in the Sun, Anything Goes, Below the Belt, Five Guys Named Moe (twice), Vigil, several Reflections Festival premieres and the occasional production of A Christmas Carol. He has also worked as a stage manager at various other regional theatres, as the production manager for the Rochester Children’s Theatre at Nazareth College, and toured for Poetry in Motion with Ms. Salome Jens’ one woman show, About Anne…, featuring the poetry of Anne Sexton. Many thanks to the Geva Staff. It’s nice to be back.

JULIE ANN MADONIA (Assistant Stage Manager) started at Geva Theatre Center as an Apprentice Stage Manager for the 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 Seasons. Her favorite shows during those seasons included Laughter on the 23rd Floor, A Christmas Carol, Later Life, Five Guys Named Moe and Antigone. She is also honored to have been a part of the opening season of the Nextstage, for which she stage managed Stop Kiss and Women Who Steal. Ms. Madonia has previously stage managed three years of Hibernatus Interruptus as well as Stars of Geva in conjunction with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Thanks to Derek, Mom & Dad for their continued love and support. Love to Michael and Lilly.

CLAIRE SIMON (Casting) Claire Simon, CSA, and her associates, Becca Knights, CSA, and Teresa Thomas are based in Chicago. Regional credits include 28 productions at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Asolo Rep, Clarence Brown Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Fox Valley Rep, Guthrie Theater, Jupiter Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Madison Rep, Milwaukee Rep, New Theatre, Silk Road Theatre Project, and Syracuse Stage. Other theatre credits include Broadway in Chicago’s Working and Peter Pan, as well as the Tony Award–winning musical Million Dollar Quartet, and Show Boat for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Ms, Simon also casts for film, television, and commercials. Most recently she has been working on the upcoming Starz series Boss, the ABC series Detroit 1-8-7, the Fox series Chicago Code, and the film Contagion with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Lawrence Fishburne. She cast the pilot and first season of the 20th Century Fox television series Prison Break, for which she won an Artios Award for casting.

Our Co-Producing Partner, Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT). Dracula is a co-production with Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana. The production was rehearsed at IRT and scenery and costumes were built in the IRT shops. Dracula ran for four weeks there before moving to Rochester. Geva partnered previously with IRT on The Piano Lesson (2007-2008).

Since the Indiana Repertory Theatre was founded in 1972, it has grown into one of the leading regional theatres in the country, as well as one of the top-flight cultural institutions in the state. The company’s mission is to produce top-quality, professional theatre and related activities, providing experiences that engage, surprise, challenge, and entertain people throughout their lifetimes, thereby helping to build a vital and vibrant community.

The IRT remains the only fully professional resident not-for-profit theatre in the state, providing 100,000 live professional theatre experiences for its audience last season. These experiences included 41,000 students and teachers from 56 of Indiana’s 92 counties, making the IRT one of the most youth-oriented professional theatres in the country. A staff of more than 100 seasonal and year-round employees creates eight productions exclusively for Indiana audiences.

The IRT’s history has been enacted in two historic downtown theatres. The Athenaeum Turners Building housed the company’s first eight seasons. Since 1980 the IRT has occupied the 1927 Indiana Theatre, which was renovated to contain three performance spaces (OneAmerica Stage, Upperstage, and Cabaret) and work spaces, reviving this historic downtown entertainment site. As an arts leader in the state of Indiana, the IRT invites collaborations with other top-quality arts institutions, with the goal of making Indiana a vibrant home of cultural expression, economic vitality, and a diverse, informed, and engaged citizenry.