Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Dane is a Los Angeles based actor and fight choreographer. He most recently directed the combat for Sierra Rep’s The Shawshank Redemption and The Three Musketeers. Previous favorites include She Kills Monsters, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and anytime he can get his hands on a shakespearean duel. His background is in competitive fencing, martial arts, and parkour, but the best training came from falling out of trees as a child. The concussions don’t seem to have affected him all that badly.

Laurie Strawn is delighted to be a Resident Company member at SRT. Recent SRT roles: Glinda/Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz, Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods, Mrs. Tottendale in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other SRT favorites include: Old Woman/Blair in Sunday in the Park with George, Annie Wilkes in Misery, and Clairee in Steel Magnolias. With love and thanks to all at SRT, and to her Lee and Julia, Laurie says, “Thank you for supporting live theater. Welcome!”

Brittni is overjoyed to make her first appearance at Sierra Repertory Theatre. She is a long time Company Member at B Street Theatre and a regular guest artist at Capital Stage in Sacramento. Some of her favorite past roles include Nora in A Doll’s House (CapStage), Sylvia in Tribes (CapStage), Sally Ride in Ride, Sally Ride (B Street), Michele in Love and Baseball (B Street Theatre, Theatre L’Homme Dieu, Minnesota), Maisie in Insertion (winner of the 2024 New Comedies Festival, B Street) and playing Elizabeth Bennet eight times over the span of ten years (CapStage). She studied theatre at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts CAP21 program as well as at CSU Sacramento. She currently lives in San Diego and does fun commercials for companies like Lume, Glamnetic, Fairytales Hair Care, Lomi, DudeWipes, and many, many more. Thank you to Jerry and Scott for this exciting opportunity!

Jerry Lee is Sierra Rep’s Artistic Director. He’s appeared in the SRT productions of Misery, Sunday in the Park with George, Elf The Musical, Shrek The Musical, Camelot, Cabaret, Route 66, Intimate Apparel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Man of La Mancha, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s State Fair, and The Drowsy Chaperone. As an actor: I Love You…Change, Forbidden Broadway (California Musical Theatre); Life Could Be a Dream, A Christmas Carol (CenterREP); A Little Princess, The Fantasticks (Sacramento Theatre Company); West Side Story (Mountain Play); Orlando, An Iliad, A Tale of Two Cities (SacImpulse Theatre). As a soloist: Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration (Sacramento Choral Society); Billy Bigelow in Carousel in Concert (Sacramento Philharmonic). As a director: HAIR, Little Shop of Horrors, Mean Girls JR., Sh-Boom! A Christmas Miracle (World Premiere), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Twelfth Night, Jersey Boys, Clue, Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS, Elvis The Musical (West Coast Premiere), Dogfight, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Steel Magnolias, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka KIDS, I Love You…Change, The Wizard of Oz, Holiday Jukebox, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Robber Bridegroom (SRT); I Love You…Change (STC). Lee began his association with Sierra Rep in 2010 when he stepped in as a replacement in Guys and Dolls.

In 2019, Lee created SRT in Schools, a touring program that brings live professional theatre to Tuolumne County schools at no cost to the schools, students, or their families. In 2023, the program branched out to include Stanislaus and Calaveras counties.

Brendan is absolutely thrilled to be making his Sierra Rep Debut in these two hysterical productions! The son of two Air Force Colonels, Brendan received his BFA in Acting from Oklahoma City University, and is currently living as an actor and voice actor in Los Angeles. He was recently seen as Ariel in The Tempest with Chanticleer Shakespeare, and Brutus in Julius Caesar with Shakespeare by the Sea. Other stage credits include: Almost, Maine (Rubicon Theatre); Boeing Boeing (Village Barn Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Oklahoma City Rep); Macbeth (The Classical Theatre of Maryland); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Colorado Springs FAC); Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Classical Tahoe). Brendan has also recorded several national radio commercials and audiobooks, including his recent narration of the finale of the Side Quest Row Trilogy, A Draught for a Dragon (now on Audible). He gives thanks and love to the cast and crew, his beautiful friends and family, and to Zach, of course. For Dad.