Hire costumed characters
in San Francisco.
Trained character performers in screen-accurate costumes for retail openings, family days, brand activations, and corporate events with kid-facing components.
Bay Area corporate character work peaks at tech-HQ family days (Apple Park, Googleplex, Meta MPK all run major employer-brand family events) and product-launch activations that want a branded mascot or themed performer to anchor a Moscone or Convention Center booth. We staff custom mascots for partner-day events at Nvidia and Cisco, themed performers (sci-fi, retro-tech, period) for corporate murder mysteries and offsite immersives, and IP-safe costumed characters for Levi's Stadium and PayPal Park family-day brand activations. Our Bay Area character pool is multilingual-friendly and briefed on tech-campus confidentiality and photo policy realities. 100% W-2, AB-5 and AB-2257 compliant.
Showcraft serves San Francisco and the surrounding CA area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. San Francisco is the brand-launch and conference anchor of the Bay Area — Moscone Center hosts Dreamforce, RSA Conference, Game Developers Conference, and JP Morgan Healthcare week, Chase Center pulls Warriors gameday brand work, and Oracle Park keeps a steady run of ballpark activations. We staff exhibitor booths and lead-capture for Moscone trade shows, sponsor zones at Chase Center and Oracle Park, brand activations in SoMa, the Mission, and Hayes Valley, and registration crews for corporate offsites at the SF Marriott Marquis and Hilton Union Square. Roster runs heavily bilingual EN/ES with strong Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, and Spanish pools — relevant for SF's actual demographics. All staff are 100% W-2 and AB-5 compliant.
- Costumed Characters dispatched anywhere in San Francisco
- 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 San Francisco?+
Retail grand openings, brand activations with family-day components, trade show booth attractors, sports promotions, company family days, and corporate holiday parties in San Jose & the Bay Area. Costumed characters pull foot traffic, anchor photo moments, and add a memorable layer to brand-led events in San Francisco.
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 San Francisco. 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 San Francisco character performers trained?+
Yes — every Showcraft character performer in San Francisco 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 San Francisco character performers W-2 and insured?+
Yes. Every character performer Showcraft deploys in San Francisco 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 San Francisco today. on demand.
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