Hire costumed characters
in Ontario.
Trained character performers in screen-accurate costumes for retail openings, family days, brand activations, and corporate events with kid-facing components.
IE corporate character work runs heaviest at brand family days produced by employer brands in the logistics and healthcare corridor, retail openings at Victoria Gardens and Galleria at Tyler that want a branded mascot to anchor a crowd, and themed performers for festival sponsor activations at Coachella, Stagecoach, and BNP Paribas Open. Our IE character pool is bilingual EN/ES heavy — important for community-facing brand activations across San Bernardino and Riverside counties — and includes custom mascot performers comfortable with extended outdoor shifts in IE summer heat. Captains run mandatory hydration and rotation cycles. 100% W-2, AB-5 and AB-2257 compliant.
Showcraft serves Ontario and the surrounding CA area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. Ontario is the operational center of the western Inland Empire — Ontario International Airport keeps it close to LA County dispatch, the Ontario Convention Center pulls mid-size trade shows and consumer events, and Toyota Arena hosts concert and sports activations year-round. We staff exhibitor booths and lead-capture for Ontario Convention Center shows, family-day production at Toyota Arena, brand activations at Ontario Mills (the largest one-story mall on the West Coast), and registration crews for corporate offsites at the Ontario airport hotel cluster. Our IE roster runs heavily bilingual EN/ES and is dispatched as the western IE anchor — pulls double duty for east-LA-County overflow without multi-market surcharge. All staff are 100% W-2 and AB-5 compliant.
- Costumed Characters dispatched anywhere in Ontario
- 100% W-2 staff (CA AB-5 / AB-2257 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 Ontario?+
Retail grand openings, brand activations with family-day components, trade show booth attractors, sports promotions, company family days, and corporate holiday parties in Inland Empire. Costumed characters pull foot traffic, anchor photo moments, and add a memorable layer to brand-led events in Ontario.
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 Ontario. 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 Ontario character performers trained?+
Yes — every Showcraft character performer in Ontario 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 Ontario character performers W-2 and insured?+
Yes. Every character performer Showcraft deploys in Ontario 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 Ontario today. on demand.
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