Hire costumed characters
in Queens.
Trained character performers in screen-accurate costumes for retail openings, family days, brand activations, and corporate events with kid-facing components.
NYC corporate character work runs heaviest at Fifth Avenue and Soho retail flagship openings (custom branded mascots and themed performers to anchor the opening crowd), employer-brand family days produced by Manhattan financial and media corporates, and themed performers (period, prohibition-era, noir, sci-fi) for corporate murder mysteries and immersive offsite events at private Tribeca and Meatpacking venues. We staff custom mascots for Javits booth activations, themed performers for Fashion Week brand parties, and IP-safe costumed characters for Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, and Barclays Center family-day brand activations. Most of our NYC character pool is working actors — comfortable on camera and in front of executive audiences. All staff are 100% W-2.
Showcraft serves Queens and the surrounding NY area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. Queens is the most demographically diverse county in the US — and operationally one of NYC's most active multilingual brand markets. Citi Field hosts the Mets and a heavy concert calendar, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center hosts the US Open every August / September, Long Island City drives Manhattan-adjacent waterfront brand activations, and Flushing's Asian food and retail corridor anchors community-event work. We staff brand ambassadors and lead-capture for US Open sponsor activations, hospitality crews for Citi Field Mets games, demo teams for LIC waterfront launches, and bilingual EN/ES/Mandarin/Korean/Bengali/Tagalog crews for Queens community-event work. All staff are 100% W-2.
- Costumed Characters dispatched anywhere in Queens
- 100% W-2 staff, fully compliant
- Comprehensive GL + workers' comp on every event
- COI naming your venue and additional insureds
- Captain on-site for events with 6+ staff
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What kind of corporate events use costumed characters in Queens?+
Retail grand openings, brand activations with family-day components, trade show booth attractors, sports promotions, company family days, and corporate holiday parties in New York City. Costumed characters pull foot traffic, anchor photo moments, and add a memorable layer to brand-led events in Queens.
What's the difference between a Showcraft character and a Characters.io character?+
Same talent roster, different lane. Showcraft handles the corporate side — brand activations, retail openings, trade show floors, and corporate family days in Queens. Characters.io handles consumer and private events. The performers are W-2 employees of the same parent company, with the same vetting and training standards.
Are your Queens character performers trained?+
Yes — every Showcraft character performer in Queens is a working actor with character-performance training (movement, in-character voice work, photo-pose discipline, guest interaction). They're not random people in costume; they're vetted performers backed by Characters.io's 18-year track record.
Are your Queens character performers W-2 and insured?+
Yes. Every character performer Showcraft deploys in Queens is a W-2 employee with workers' comp and general liability coverage. We issue COIs naming the venue and additional insureds. In California, the payroll structure is fully AB-5 / AB-2257 compliant.
Hire costumed characters in Queens today. on demand.
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