Hire costumed characters
in Williamsburg.
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 Williamsburg and the surrounding NY area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. Williamsburg is Brooklyn's most active brand-pop-up neighborhood — Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street drive year-round CPG, fashion, and tech-DTC launches, the Williamsburg waterfront / Domino Park anchors summer brand-activation calendars, and the Brooklyn Steel / Music Hall of Williamsburg venues keep premiere and on-camera work in steady rotation. We staff brand ambassadors and sampling crews for Bedford Avenue and North 6th launches, hospitality teams for Domino Park and Williamsburg Hotel pop-ups, demo crews for warehouse-format activations, and on-camera-comfortable hosts for premieres at Brooklyn Steel and Music Hall. Roster skews young, creative, and on-camera-ready. Bilingual EN/ES with strong Spanish and Polish coverage. All staff are 100% W-2.
- Costumed Characters dispatched anywhere in Williamsburg
- 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 Williamsburg?+
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 Williamsburg.
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 Williamsburg. 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 Williamsburg character performers trained?+
Yes — every Showcraft character performer in Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg character performers W-2 and insured?+
Yes. Every character performer Showcraft deploys in Williamsburg 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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