EPIC Players Announces Sponsorship Opportunities for Its 10th Anniversary Gala in 2027, Inviting Brands to Champion Neurodivergent and Disabled Artists

Serving More Than 250 Neurodivergent and Disabled Artists Nationwide With Free Classes, Equity Wages and Full-Scale Productions, EPIC Invites Brands to Sponsor Its 10th Anniversary Gala and Future Seasons

NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EPIC Players, the nonprofit theater company built around Neurodivergent and Disabled artists with companies in New York City and Los Angeles, today announced sponsorship opportunities for Places, Please!, its 10th Anniversary Gala. The gala takes place Wednesday, April 7, 2027, at City Winery in New York City and will welcome an anticipated 450 guests. The evening brings together EPIC Players and their families, theater professionals, celebrity guests, donors and corporate partners. Guests will enjoy a VIP happy hour, cocktail hour, a live cabaret featuring EPIC artists alongside celebrity guests and a karaoke after party. Sponsorship packages include logo placement throughout the venue, recognition on stage, backstage access and opportunities to feature products during performances. Packages can also be customized to incorporate brands on stage and into EPIC's future seasons, individual productions and performances.

Since 2016, EPIC has served more than 250 Neurodivergent and Disabled artists nationwide. The company offers more than 100 free performing arts classes annually alongside mainstage productions, cabarets and mentorship. EPIC pays its actors an Equity wage and casts Neurodivergent and Disabled performers in leading roles. EPIC has a 139-person waitlist in New York and growing demand in Los Angeles.

Over the past decade, EPIC has produced full-scale, big-title theater, including Rent, Seussical, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Tartuffe, Peter and the Starcatcher, Little Shop of Horrors and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Its productions have played venues including A.R.T./New York, The Flea, the Sheen Center and HERE Arts Center. EPIC's cabarets have filled Joe's Pub at The Public, 54 Below and Lincoln Center.

EPIC artists have shared the stage with Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Conan O'Brien. Bell and Gad reunited for a Frozen performance at EPIC LA's Once Upon a Cabaret in December 2025. EPIC company member Conor Tague went on to star on Broadway in How to Dance in Ohio.

EPIC's Los Angeles company, EPIC LA, brings the same professional standard to the West Coast. EPIC LA opens its 2026-2027 season with Give My Regards to Cabaret! on November 12 and 13 at the Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar, joined by Broadway guests Steven Booth, Eric Petersen and Isabella Souza de Moore. The LA season continues with EPIC LA Underground Storytelling with Storyectomy at The Crow in Santa Monica in March 2027. In June 2027, EPIC LA presents Between the Lines, its first mainstage musical.

In New York, the anniversary season opened with Saints and Sinners Cabaret at Joe's Pub at The Public on November 1. It continues with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the ART/NY Mezzanine Theatre from November 20 through December 6, 2026, and 504: The Musical at Theatre Row from April 16 through May 23, 2027.

Partners can contribute through financial sponsorship, donated products and services, or media partnerships. Existing supporters include The QBE Foundation and Veronica Beard.

Gala sponsorship packages are available at the following levels:

• VIP Table: $10,000
• Silver: $15,000
• Gold: $25,000
• Platinum: $50,000
• Title and Presenting Sponsor: $100,000, with one exclusive opportunity available

Benefits vary by level and include recognition in press materials and event marketing, social media features, newsletter inclusion, event program recognition and dinner seating. Select packages include category exclusivity. The Title and Presenting sponsorship includes naming rights to the karaoke after party, a dedicated speaking opportunity and a walk-on or cameo role in an EPIC production within the 12 months following the gala.

EPIC also welcomes donated products and services in areas including hospitality, travel, event production, guest gifts and auction experiences.

To review available packages, view the full sponsorship deck here. Supporters can also donate directly to EPIC's New York artists at givebutter.com/epicnyc and to EPIC's Los Angeles artists at givebutter.com/epicla.

For sponsorship, partnership and media inquiries on EPIC Players, please contact BPM-PR Firm at 877-841-7244 or [email protected].

About EPIC Players

EPIC Players, whose name stands for Empower, Perform, Include and Create, is a nonprofit theater company founded in 2016 with programming in New York City and Los Angeles. Through professional productions, cabarets, accessible classes and career resources, EPIC creates opportunities for Neurodivergent and Disabled artists to develop their skills, find employment and share their work with audiences. For more information, visit epicplayers.org.

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