Hire costumed characters
in San Jose.
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 Jose and the surrounding CA area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. San Jose is the operational center of Silicon Valley's corporate event calendar — Apple, Google, Adobe, Cisco, Western Digital, and Nvidia all run quarterly all-hands and partner days here, plus heavy keynote/launch activity at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. We staff product-launch booth teams for Adobe Summit, Cisco Live, and Nvidia GTC, family days at Levi's Stadium and PayPal Park, premium offsites at the Tech Interactive and the Computer History Museum, and on-camera hosts for keynote support and demo stations. Our Bay Area roster runs deep on bilingual EN/ES, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog talent — important in the South Bay's actual demographics, not just on a brief.
- Costumed Characters dispatched anywhere in San Jose
- 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 Jose?+
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 Jose.
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 Jose. 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 Jose character performers trained?+
Yes — every Showcraft character performer in San Jose 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 Jose character performers W-2 and insured?+
Yes. Every character performer Showcraft deploys in San Jose 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.
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