CAST & CREATIVES – Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Joseph trained at Guildford School of Acting. Theatre credits include: Lovers Actually (The Other Palace); Newsrevue (Canal Cafe Theatre);  Eugenius! (Turbine Theatre); The Malarkey Chronicles (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Artrix); Doctors (BBC); A Greener Garden (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Core at Corby Cube). Credits while training include: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (GSA); Ragtime (NYMT); Henrietta (ParkerLamMusic/NYMT); Parade (NYMT); Sticks and Stones (GSA) 

Liam is so excited to be back in Frankfurt with Dracula and it’s incredibly funny (and tiny) cast! After previously playing “the man who plays a woman” in Something Rotten!, Liam is ready to push himself to new extremes and try something different… the man who plays two women! He can’t wait to sink his teeth into these new crazy characters and wishes you a fang-tastic night of laughs.

Briana Kelly trained at Arts Ed and is so excited to be returning to The English Theatre Frankfurt for Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors. Having recently reprised her role as Portia in Something Rotten! she can’t wait to spend the summer in Frankfurt scaring the audience silly with this lovely small cast! Theatre credit: Clash of the Comics (Hammersmith Appollo.) Credits whilst training: Dr. Zhivago in concert (Lambert Jackson Productions); Arts Ed Choir at The Olivier Awards; Bernadette in The Beautiful Game (Arts Ed); Dance Captain in Sweeney Todd (Arts Ed). Briana would like to thank her friends and family for all their love and support and for traveling to Germany again! 

Shaun trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre credits include: The BFG (RSC & Chichester Festival Theatre); In the Mouth of the Wolf (The Barn Theatre); The Mousetrap (UK Tour); The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Gillian Lynne Theatre); The Windsors: Endgame (Prince of Wales Theatre); Blood Brothers (UK Tour); War Horse (New London Theatre); The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre); Imagine This (Union Theatre); Iolanthe (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Pirates of Penzance (Kilworth House Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); Bernstein’s Mass (Royal Festival Hall). Television credit: House of the Dragon (HBO)

Workshops include: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Grinning Man (NT Studios); I Capture the Castle (NT Studios); The Attic (Theatre Royal Haymarket). 

George is a recent graduate of Rose Bruford College. Theatre credits include: Sam in Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Tour). Credits whilst training include: Ben Weeks in The Normal Heart, Roby in The Visit, Iago in Othello, Leonardo in Blood Wedding and Mr Halliwell/Doctor Rose in The Hills of California. 

As director and choreographer productions include: Something Rotten!, Nunsense and Sister Act (The English Theatre, Frankfurt); Tick, Tick…BOOM! (The Bridge Theatre, Brussels); Matilda The Musical (Folketeateret, Oslo); Bring It On (Southwark Playhouse, London); 13 – The Musical (Ambassadors Theatre, London) and The Three Little Pigs (International Tour).

Stage credits as choreographer include: The Phantom Of The Opera (International Tour); Candide! (WNO); Company! (The Châtelét, Paris); Barber of Seville (Garsington Opera); Yeomen of the Guard (Grange Festival); Milky Peaks (Theatre Clwyd); She Loves Me (Sheffield Crucible); Der Mond (Opera National de Lyon); L’Enfant et les Sortileges (Opera de Limoges); L’Etoile (Theatre Sao Carlos, Lisbon); Fantasio (Garsington Opera); West Side Story (RNCM, Manchester); The Wizard Of Oz (Sheffield Crucible); Travels With My Aunt (Chichester); Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); What I Go To School For (Brighton Theatre Royal); The Tales Of Hoffman (English Touring Opera); Vert Vert (Garsington Opera); Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre); Altar Boyz (Greenwich Theatre); The Mikado (Hackney Empire); Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks And The Three Bears (Singapore Repertory Theatre); The Dreaming (Rose Theatre); Mexican Hayride (Sadlers Wells); Don Pasquale (Opera Holland Park); Carousel (Broadway Theatre); Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast (Swan Theatre, High Wycombe); Aladdin (Sunderland Empire); Cinderella, Snow White & The Seven Dwarves, Jack and the Beanstalk (Palace Theatre Mansfield); Sleeping Beauty (Malvern Festival Theatre). Choreography for screen includes seasons 2 & 3 of Sex Education (Netflix) and Renegade Nell (Disney+).

Credits include: Tick, Tick…BOOM! (The Bridge Theatre, Brussels – Musical Supervisor); Titanic the Musical (Bird College); Nunsense, Something Rotten!, Now and Then, Sister Act, Young Frankenstein, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret (all for The English Theatre Frankfurt); Summer Holiday (UK Tour – Associate MD); Mother Knows Best (Above the Arts); Let’s go MT for HD (Above the Arts); Bananaman the Musical (Southwark Playhouse); West End Jerseys (Magnetic Entertainment); Legally Blonde (University of Cumbria); Bananaman the Musical (From Page to Stage); Piaf (Charing Cross Theatre). 

Workshops credits include: Bananaman the Musical, Girl From the North Country (Assistant Musical Director – The Old Vic).

Credits as Keyboards/Rehearsal Pianist: Matilda (West End and UK tour); Forever Plaid (The Other Palace); Aladdin and Cinderella (both Liverpool Empire); You’ll Never Walk Alone (Queen’s Theatre, London); Tommy (Prince Edward Theatre).

Sophia is a 1st class (Hons) graduate of the Wimbledon College of Arts MA (Distinction) in Theatre Design. Set Design credits include: Acorn Antiques (Hope Mill & Shaftesbury Theatre, West End) and Young Frankenstein (Hope Mill & Liverpool Playhouse). Set & Costume Design credits include: Supernova (China Tour); Nunsense (The English Theatre Frankfurt); Nerds (Edinburgh Fringe & Leicester Curve Studio); The Wizard of Oz (Watermill Theatre); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse) and Once (Barn Theatre).

Costume Design credits include: La Bamba (Sri Lanka); Midnight Cowboy (Southwark Playhouse – Elephant); Figaro (The London Palladium); Head Over Heels (Hope Mill) and Daddy Issues (Seven Dials Playhouse). Further Design credits include: Clinton Baptiste (Hackney Empire & UK Tour); The Moors (Hope Theatre); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre); How to Make a Revolution (Finborough Theatre); Head Over Heels (Hope Mill); Gorgon: A Horror Story (VAULTS Festival); Faustus (Queen Elizabeth Hall); Neck or Nothing (Pleasance); The Little Prince (Omnibus) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden). Sophia designs for numerous top UK drama schools, including Arts Educational, Royal Academy of Music and Mountview. Awards include Offie Award nomination, shortlisting for Told by an Idiot’s Naomi Wilkinson Award, and a year-long residency at the NDT Broadgate Design Studio and a best costume nomination at the Comedy Short Awards.

Jamie trained at RWCMD and has been nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award, a BroadwayWorld Award and five Offie Awards for Best Lighting Design. Previous lighting designs for The English Theatre Frankfurt include: Something Rotten!, Suddenly Last Summer and Sister Act. 

Theatre credits include: The Last Five Years (West End & International Tour); Jellyfish (National Theatre); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); RIDE (Old Globe, San Diego); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kiss Me Kate (Leicester Curve); Word-Play (Royal Court Theatre); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Prince Edward); Something Rotten!, Pippin (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Children, Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); The White Chip, Our House, Manic Street Creature, RIDE, The Last Five Years, Strike, Beast, Klippies (Southwark Playhouse); Firewing, The Harmony Test, Octopolis, Nineteen Gardens, Either, Paradise, Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre); That Face (Orange Tree Theatre); The Rat Trap, 23.5 Hours, Cowboys & Lesbians, SUS, Never Not Once, Gently Down The Stream, Alkaline (Park Theatre); My Fair Lady, Singin’ in the Rain (The Mill at Sonning).

Opera includes: La Fanciulla del West (Opera Holland Park); The Rape of Lucretia, The Elixir of Love, Blond Eckbert, The Snowmaiden (English Touring Opera); The Barber of Seville (Nevill Holt Opera). Associate lighting designs include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (International); Frozen, SIX (West End & International).

As Sound Designer for The English Theatre Frankfurt: Something Rotten (2025) and Nunsense.

Other previous credits include: Slippery (Omnibus Theatre); And Then Come the Nightjars (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Lark Rise to Candleford (Watermill Theatre & Theatre By The Lake); The Girls Bathroom: Live (Hammersmith Apollo); Jurassic (Soho Theatre); Count Dykula (Pleasance Ace Dome & Soho Theatre); Even More… Ghost Stories by Candlelight (UK Tour); Get Happy (Omnibus Theatre – Fringe Theatre Award Nomination for Sound Design and Production); The Maladies (Kiln Theatre); Canned Goods (Southwark Playhouse); Beyond Her Years (Almeida Theatre); Lady Dealer (Roundabout, Summerhall & Bush Theatre); The Beautiful Future is Coming (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre); Spy For Spy (Riverside Studios); Ravenscourt (Hamstead Theatre); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); The Straw Chair (Finborough Theatre).

Previous credits as Associate Sound Designer: Educating Rita (Reading Rep); Ebony Scrooge (Associate Programmer – Sadlers Wells); Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre); Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre); Lesbian Space Crime (Soho Theatre); Folk (Hampsted Theatre); My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre).

Marc trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before moving into casting. For The English Theatre Frankfurt, Marc has cast Something Rotten! (2026), Rapture, Nunsense, The Wasp, The Two Popes, Sylvia, Something Rotten!, Now and Then, Suddenly Last Summer, Sister Act, Secret Life of Humans, The Totalitarians, Young Frankenstein, The Girl on the Train, Switzerland, The Effect, Sweeney Todd, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Children, Apologia, Cabaret, The Lion in Winter, Jekyll & Hyde – the Musical, Hand to God, Pygmalion, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Handbagged, Spamalot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Glass Menagerie, Disgraced, Death and the Maiden, Other Desert Cities, Ghost – the Musical and Strangers on a Train.

Marc has also recently cast I’m Sorry Prime Minister (West End London); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Birmingham Rep Theatre); And then came the Nightjars (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Double Double, Men Behaving Badly (Barn Theatre Cirencester); Friends the Musical Parody (UK Tour); The Constant Wife (UK Tour); The Talented Mr Ripley (UK Tour); Military Wives (York Theatre Royal) and many more.