Rutgers-Camden Student Production of "Dracula" a Halloween Must-See

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN – Get out the garlic and wooden stakes because vampires aren’t just for Hollywood anymore. The Rutgers University—Camden Department of Fine Arts will present Dracula just in time for the Halloween season.

Rutgers–Camden students will perform Hamilton Deane’s and John L. Balderston’s stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1; 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5; and 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, and Saturday, Nov. 7. 

Complete with period costumes and realistic sets, this Rutgers–Camden production aims to recreate the gothic atmosphere of Stoker’s 19th century novel when the infamous Count Dracula stalked his victims.

The student production is directed by Ken Elliot, an assistant professor of fine arts at Rutgers–Camden, whose off-Broadway play, Devil Boys from Beyond, recently earned numerous rave reviews from such outlets as the New York Post.

Dracula consists of eight characters, played by Paul Barnett (INDIAN MILLS); Sean Cummings (CHERRY HILL); Angela Harmon (MOUNT HOLLY); Erin Gartland (GLOUCESTER CITY); Nicholas Maraia (TORRINGTON, CT); Kearstie Kaspar (CLAYTON); Patrick Alicarlo Castañeda(MENDHAM); and Theo Langason(MINNEAPOLIS, MN).

Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts, the student production will be held in the Gordon Theater, located in the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus.  Admission is $10.  For more information, call (856) 225-6176.

For directions to Rutgers-Camden, visit camden.rutgers.edu.

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