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First Degree Burns
First Degree Burns is an Epic Alumni-written and performed play centered on three friends who are navigating radically different post-secondary trajectories while wrestling with the burden of carrying family dreams on their backs. The play utilizes interviews with students, administrators, and counselors to theatricalize authentic emotional experiences, comically skewer college […]
Education Benefit
VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!Support Epic and experience the event in-person or on YouTube Live THE PERFORMANCE WHY TEACHCommissioned by The Public Good at Teachers College, Columbia University “In some countries, the word that they use for teacher translates to future-builders” Given our unprecedented national teacher shortage, why should a young […]
REMIX: SOCIAL NOMAD
SOCIAL NOMAD – an Epic Remix podcast.When students are treated like numbers… When school is run like a prison… When security is more important than safety… What could possibly go wrong?Written and performed by students from the Evander Childs Educational Campus in Bronx, NY
REMIX: AT THE RIALTO
AT THE RIALTO: A Merchant of Venice REMIX. Shylock is an undocumented immigrant, a Jewish Dominican refugee who escaped Trujillo, making his way as a drug dealer in Washington Heights. When Covid-19 hits the Heights hard, his disloyal former employee Antonio and pal Bassanio need his help; but will they […]
REMIX: ADDICTED
Maryweather Hamlet’s life is spiraling out of control: her father, Head Coach Hamlet of the Copenhagen HS Fencing Team, has disappeared; a new coach, Claudius, is taking over her team and spending way too much time with her mother; her boyfriend Ophelio has a dangerous secret; and her recreational drug […]
REMIX: MACKENZIE
THE CENTER AT WEST PARK & EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENT MACKENZIE: A REMIX OF MACBETH WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY THE EPIC CITY-WIDE REMIX ENSEMBLE MARCH 16 & 18 | 7:00 PM | $10 SUGGESTED DONATION 165 West 86th Street, NYC 11236 An adaptation of Shakespeare’s thrilling drama, Macbeth, this REMIX […]
Citizen Artists
“This book captures better than anything I have ever seen, what it was that I spent 45 years pursuing. This is the work.”Eric Booth, internationally acclaimed author and arts educator About the book:CITIZEN ARTISTS: A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the WorldCitizen Artists takes the reader on […]
#EpicDoesntStop
Thanks to your support, this summer Epic was back with in-person arts experiences from the classroom to the rehearsal room, on stage and on set. 2021 EPIC NEXT SUMMER INTENSIVE With in-person arts instruction 4 days a week for six weeks, Epic served more than 180 students from 10 NYC […]