Dracapella
By Dan Patterson & Jez Bond, Directed by Jez Bond
A solicitor from London.
A mysterious count from Transylvania.
An ensemble of mind-blowing vocal talents.
Full-blooded fun.
When Harker sets off to Transylvania to sell a crumbling castle to a mysterious client, he doesn’t expect to wind up in a love triangle – or is that a square? – involving his wife, her best friend, and one very melodramatic vampire.
Things spiral quickly; capes are flung, necks are bitten (accidentally), and a human beatboxer accompanies it all. Featuring acappella covers of everything from Somebody to Love to Eye of the Tiger, and more terrible puns than strictly necessary, Dracapella is a fast, funny, fang-filled festive treat.
Starring Olivier Award winners Stephen Ashfield (The Book of Mormon) as Harker and Lorna Want (Beautiful) as Mina, alongside Keala Settle (The Greatest Showman, Wicked: The Movie) as Lucy and Ako Mitchell (Sister Act, Mean Girls) as Dracula.
With UK Champion Beatboxer ABH Beatbox providing the show’s unique vocal soundtrack, and a stellar ensemble including Monique Ashe-Palmer (SIX the Musical), Ciarán Dowd (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner) and Philip Pope (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
From Dan Patterson (creator of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Mock the Week) and Jez Bond (the Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] series), Dracapella delivers madcap comedy, monster mashups and a bloody good time.
It’s a comedy with music. And bite.
Park Theatre and Adam Blanshay Productions.
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Evenings
19.30
Matinees15.00
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£15 - £49.50
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Genre
Comedy
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Age guidance
10+
Cast & Creatives
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Monique Ashe-Palmer
Pustula
Monique Ashe-Palmer
Pustula
Monique graduated from Bird College in 2018, with a BA in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre.
Theatre credits include: Storyteller 1 in Shucked (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre); SIX (Vaudeville Theatre); Madagascar the Musical (UK and International Tour) for which she was also Associate Choreographer; Waitress (Adelphi Theatre and UK Tour); Sleeping Beauty (Camberley Theatre).
Television credits include: Emmerdale (ITV).
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Stephen Ashfield
Harker
Stephen Ashfield
Harker
Scottish actor and musician Stephen Ashfield trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Academy of Music, London, being named a fellow of the latter in 2018.
In 2025, Stephen has appeared in the Academy Award nominated film MARIA alongside Angelina Jolie and starred as Bamber Gascoigne in the musical adaptation of David Nicholls’ Starter For Ten at Bristol Old Vic.
In recent years, Stephen’s stand-out performance as Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon in the West End and on Broadway has won him an Olivier Award, and both WhatsOnStage and BroadwayWorld Awards.
In 2019, Stephen created the role of Hamish McLarnon in Becoming Nancy at CocaCola Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, reprising this role for the UK premiere at Birmingham Rep in 2024.
For ten (long and somewhat uncomfortable!) years his posterior adorned many London buses and tube posters as Bob Gaudio in the original London cast of Jersey Boys.
Other theatre credits include: Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde (Savoy); Casey O’Brien in Boy Meets Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre); Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (Jermyn Street Theatre), creating the leading role of Adam in Imagine This (Theatre Royal Plymouth), John in Tomorrow Morning (New End Theatre, London), Nick Piazza in Fame (Aldwych), George in new musical Ha’penny Bridge (The Point, Dublin), Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro (Drill Hall, London), Boy George in Taboo (West End and UK Tour).
TV: Lawrence in The Devil’s Hour, Philip Worth in Call The Midwife. Appearances with Jersey Boys include This Morning, GMTV, Loose Women, Paul O’Grady, Strictly Come Dancing, Alan Titchmarsh, The 80th Royal Variety Performance, and Tonight’s the Night.
Radio: Incredible Women with Rebecca Front and Joanna Lumley (BBCRadio4), Elaine Paige on Sunday.
Cast Recordings: Ha’penny Bridge, Tomorrow Morning and Jersey Boys.
Other Film: Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd.
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Ciarán Dowd
Sinister, Van Helsing & others
Ciarán Dowd
Sinister, Van Helsing & others
Ciarán is a comedian, actor and writer and winner of the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. His debut solo show Don Rodolfo was described as “the single funniest thing you will see this year” (Telegraph). In 2021 he adapted the show into a short for BBC2 which received stellar reviews and was described as “a perfect ten minutes” (The Sunday Times). In 2023 the Telegraph placed Ciarán 28th in the “50 Best Comedians of the 21st Century”. His comic creation Don Rodolfo was most recently seen in Dictionary Corner in the last series of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and as an actor next year sees him in the release of the Irish feature film Chasing Millions.
Ciarán has appeared in: Confessions of a City (Sheffield Crucible); Chasing Bono (Soho Theatre); Foreskin’s Lament (Hackney Empire) and Whodunnit (Park Theatre); Bad Sisters (Apple); Marriage (BBC1); The Duchess (Netflix); Sky Shorts: Diane from Accounts (Sky Arts); Josh (BBC1); Semi Detached (BBC2); GameFace (E4/ Hulu); Zapped (Dave); The Reluctant Landlord (Sky); Fighting With My Family (Film4) and has made the most guest appearances on Drunk History (Comedy Central).
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Alexander Belgarion Hackett (ABH Beatbox)
Alexander Belgarion Hackett (ABH Beatbox)
Alexander, known professionally as ABH Beatbox, is a UK Champion beatboxer, performer, and theatre-maker whose work fuses music, rhythm, and innovation.
He is a co-creator and original cast member of the multi award-winning production Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster, developed with BAC Beatbox Academy under the direction of Conrad Murray.
Originally commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, the show toured both nationally and internationally, including a sell-out run at the Traverse Theatre as part of the British Council Showcase at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, where it became the highest-rated show of the festival (The List) and received multiple awards. It later toured to Adelaide Fringe, where it was voted Best Show of the Festival, and was subsequently adapted for BBC Culture in Quarantine, aired on BBC Four and streamed via BBC iPlayer.ABH has brought his dynamic, genre-bending vocal artistry to major venues including the Roundhouse, Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre, Traverse Theatre, and the Pompidou Theatre in Paris as well as numerous festivals such as Boardmasters and Reading Festival for Relentless.
Described as “kinetically hilarious” by The Stage, he is known for blending technical precision with comic flair. He is a long-standing collaborator with Folk Dance Remixed, and toured the UK with Pied Piper (BAC Beatbox Academy), performing as Tempo after originally joining the production as an understudy. He also contributed music and character work to the role of “Gaz” in Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist
His creative practice extends into sound-based performance art. He interpreted Christian Marclay’s Manga Scroll live at the Pompidou, bringing his own beatbox-led interpretation to the celebrated sound artist’s work. He also co-composed “A 104 Kilobyte Serenade” for Antonio Vega Macotela, which was exhibited at the Lowe Art Museum in Miami.
ABH is co-founder and co-organiser of NUE Beatbox, developed alongside New Urban Era and a growing team. Having just completed its 5th annual event, NUE Beatbox has become an important fixture in the international beatbox calendar—welcoming competitors from across the globe and delivering educational and community events throughout the UK.
His media appearances include BBC News, BBC Four, ABC News, Sky One, and Channel 5’s The Gadget Show, where he featured as a guest expert.
In healthcare settings, ABH works with Vocal Beats, delivering beatboxing workshops and performances in NHS paediatric wards. He is passionate about the power of beatbox not only as an artform, but as a tool for wellbeing, creative expression, and human connection.
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Ako Mitchell
Dracula
Ako Mitchell
Dracula
Theatre includes: Mr Duvall in Mean Girls (Savoy Theatre – Original West End Cast); Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre); Kweku in Black Superhero (Royal Court); Roy Johnson in The Light in the Piazza In Concert (Alexandra Palace); Mister in The Color Purple (Leicester Curve & Birmingham Hippodrome UK tour); The Arbiter in Chess (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Bus/Dryer in Caroline, Or Change (Minerva Theatre and West End); Larry in Indecent Proposal, Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse); Preacher in Bonnie & Clyde (West End); Bob Barker in Bernstein’s Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); Raymond in Far From Heaven (MTFest 2021); Europa Projekt Season: Europeana and Peer Gynt (RSC); Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls, Orin the Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Eddie in The Wild Party (The Other Palace); Coalhouse in Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); Reggie in The Trial of Jane Fonda, Klook in Klook’s Last Stand (Park Theatre); Misanthropes (Old Vic New Voices); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Royal Festival Hall); Gabriel in Fences (Duchess Theatre West End); Mitch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse); Sweaty Eddie in Sister Act (London Palladium – Original West End Cast); Mufasa in The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre West End); The Mystery Plays (Bath Music Festival); Broadway in the Shadows (Luxembourg National Theatre/Arcola Theatre).
Television includes: FBI: International, Nova, NBC’s The Grinch That Stole Christmas, Hilda, Gameface, Avenue 5, Corpse Talk, Best & Bester, Silent Witness, Berlin Station, Strangest Weather on Earth.
Radio includes: The Great Gatsby (BBC Radio 3); The Man Who Fell to Earth (BBC Radio 4); Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow (BBC Radio 4)and many audiobooks including the Alex Cross novels.
Films include: Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Daddy’s Head, The Lion vs The Little People, Lake Placid: The Final Chapter, Johnny English Strikes Again. He directed and co-wrote the short ‘I’m In the Corner with the Bluebells’ (Toronto International Film Festival Selection and Mica Film Festival (Best Director Award) and wrote and directed ‘I Promise’ (Cineuropa Shorts/Filminute Audience Award).
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Philip Pope
Holmwood, Seward & others
Philip Pope
Holmwood, Seward & others
Theatre credits include: Radio Active; Bridge Over Troubled Lager; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Wilton’s Christmas Show.
Screen credits include: Katie & Koji; Dad’s Army; Music Heroes of Brian Pern; Ballot Monkey’s; Outnumbered; A Touch of Cloth; Horrid Henry and Vagabond Shoes.
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Keala Settle
Lucy
Keala Settle
Lucy
Keala is an Outer Critics’ Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and the Tony Award nominated actor best known for her role as Lettie Litz in The Greatest Showman.
Theatre credits include: & Juliet; Sister Act; Hairspray; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Hands on a Body; Les Miserables; Waitress.
Screen credits include: The Greatest Showman; Murder in Provence; Ricki & the Flash and All My Life.
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Lorna Want
Mina
Lorna Want
Mina
Theatre credits include: Cynthia Weil in Beautiful, the Carole King Musical (Aldwych) for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical; Romeo & Juliet the Musical (Piccadilly Theatre); Footloose (Novello/UK Tour); Evita (Adelphi); Parade (Donmar); The Fantasticks (Duchess); Dreamboats and Petticoats (Playhouse); Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour); Robin Hood (Cambridge Arts); Anything Goes (Kilworth House); Peter Pan (Manchester Opera House & New Victoria Woking); High School Musical (UK Tour); Sleeping Beauty (Bromley Churchill) and Les Miserables (Birmingham Hippodrome).
Television credits include: Casualty, Holby City, Doctors and I Dream (all for the BBC) and Arcadia (ITV).
Workshops include: Dracapella (Park Theatre); Stagestruck (Princess cruises); Roman Holiday (London & Shanghai); Hans Christian Andersen (London); The Little Prince (Savoy Theatre); Defect (Finborough Theatre); The Piper (Savoy Theatre) and Bauhinia (National Theatre Studio).
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Jez Bond
Artistic Director
Jez Bond
Artistic Director
Founder and Artistic Director, Jez Bond, graduated Hull University with a BA Honours in Drama and was awarded the Channel Four Theatre Director Bursary. An award-winning director, he has been named in GQ’s 100 Most Connected Men and Evening Standard’s 100 most influential Londoners.
For Park Theatre, directing includes; Shakespeare, Tolkien & You (Ian McKellen’s one man show), the Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] series (involving a different celebrity guest each performance inc. Gillian Anderson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Benedict Cumberbatch, Harry Hill, Damian Lewis, David Mitchell and Emma Thompson), the first ever English language production of the play La Cage aux Folles (translated by Simon Callow), Madame Rubinstein (starring Miriam Margolyes), Winner’s Curse (starring Clive Anderson), When It Happens To You (starring Amanda Abbington), Building The Wall, Hurling Rubble at the Sun and Adult Supervision.
Outside Park Theatre, credits include; Oliver! (starring Rowan Atkinson), I Have Been Here Before (Watford Palace Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse), Canaries Sometimes Sing (Kings Head & France), A Season in South Africa (Old Vic) plus tours of Austria, Switzerland and Hong Hong.
As a writer, credits include; Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 1, Rapunzel, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 2, Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 3, all co-written with Mark Cameron. He is currently adapting Ross Kemp’s autobiography into a one-man show, is co-writing a new a cappella comedy Dracapella, and is on commission to write a West End spin off of the Whodunnit series using audience members on stage. He has also written over twenty original songs for theatre.
As a dramaturge he has developed a number of plays which have gone on to great success both in London and New York. In addition, having led the capital conversion of Park Theatre, Jez has been a consultant for a number of new build projects and guest speaker at various conferences around the world.
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