Stage Coach Players ‘Dracula’ opens Oct. 29 in DeKalb

The Stage Coach Players will open its next production, the horror-thriller play “Dracula,” on Oct. 29.The play is scheduled to run for two weeks.“Dracula” tells the story of Count Dracula, who travels to England with the aid of his servant, Renfield, and stalks best friends Mina and Lucy, who begins sleepwalking and acting extremely ill. Mina sends for the man Lucy has fallen in love with, Dr. Seward. He is unable to determine Lucy’s ailment, notices a blood mark on her neck and sends for his old professor, Abraham Van Helsing. The cast features Tim Gannon as Dracula, Maiya Hart-Melvin as Lucy, Grant Milam as Harker, Dexter Molitor as Seward, Jason Reed as Renfield, Tasha Renae as Mina and Steve Sturm as Van Helsing. The rest of the cast includes Evan Ewing, Molly Grossman and Rae Johnson.“Dracula” is based on the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker and the 1995 play adaptation of the same name by Steven Dietz. The Stage Coach production will be directed by Jackson Nielsen, who previously direct