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Actors for Comedy of Errors-Reno, NV - Casting ID # 1509477
Project Type Live Event Submission Type Self Response
Location Reno, NV Union Non-union
Rate/Pay n/a Release Date 02-02-16
Audition Date 04-09-16 Submission deadline 04-08-16
Casting Category Theatre - Non-Equity
Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse, is condemned to death in Ephesus for violating the ban against travel between the two rival cities. As he is led to his execution, he tells the Ephesian Duke, Solinus, that he has come to Syracuse in search of his wife and one of his twin sons, who were separated from him 25 years ago in a shipwreck. The other twin, who grew up with Egeon, is also traveling the world in search of the missing half of their family. (The twins, we learn, are identical, and each has an identical twin slave named Dromio.) The Duke is so moved by this story that he grants Egeon a day to raise the thousand-mark ransom that would be necessary to save his life. necessary to

Role # 1 Solinus
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Duke of Ephesus rules his town with great respect for law, insisting that he cannot go against the set rules even if he wishes to, though he is willing to bend them a little on occasion.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 2 Egeon
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Is an old man of Syracuse who sneaks into the city to seek for his lost twin son Antipholus.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 3 Antipholus of Epesus
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Was brought up in Corinth, never knowing his father, and brought to Ephesus by Duke Menaphon of Corinth.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 4 Antipolus of Syracus
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Egeon’s son. Separated from his twin at birth, at the age of eighteen he decided to travel the world to find him, and has been searching for him these last seven years.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 5 Dromio of Ephesus
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Antipholus of Ephesus’s slave.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 6 Dromio of Syracuse
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Antiopholus of Syracuse’s slave.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 7 Balthazar
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A merchant of Ephesus and a friend of the local Antipholus.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 8 Angelo
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A goldsmith in Syracuse, the maker of a fine gold chain commissioned by Antipholus of Ephesus.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 9 First Merchant
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The First Merchant warns Antipholus of Syracuse to hide his identity, given the penalty for a Syracusian to be caught in Ephesus. He leaves his traveling companion to take care of some business, though promising to join him again in the evening.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 10 Second Merchant
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On the verge of a journey to Persia, and therefore needs every penny he can get.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 11 Pinch
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A conjurer and exorcist hired by Adriana to cure Antipholus of Epheseus of his madness.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 12 Abbess Aemilia
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An abbess in Ephesus, highly respected by all.


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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 13 Adriana
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Antipholus of Ephesus’s wife, and a proto-feminist distraught that her husband is paying attention to another woman and irritated that men are not as bound as women are, nor women as free as men.


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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 14 Luciana
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Adriana’s sister, and dwells with her and Antipholus of Epheseus.


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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 15 Luce
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Also known as Nell, is a maid at Antipholus of Ephesus’s. She has little patience with loud ruffians at the gate, whom she consigns to the stocks.


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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 16 Courtezan
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A Courtezan counts Antipholus of Epheseus among her favored clients, and entertains him often enough to make his wife jealous.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 17 Jailer
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The Jailer has custody of Egeon, and accompanies him in his search for someone to pay his ransom.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 18 Messenger
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The Messenger rushes in to warn Adriana to flee from her husband, who has broken loose from his bonds. He is clearly terrified.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 19 Officer
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A debt recovery officer, who can be hired to arrest defaulters.


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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -

Role # 20 Headsman
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In charge of executing Egeon, and leads him to his death.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -