2026-01-30T10:36:49-08:00 2025-06-30 202747426 RICH AND BANDER LLP 79 MADISON AVE 2ND FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10016 990 2024-07-01 813772510 EPIC PLAYERS INC EPIC 7576198224 138 S OXFORD STREET BROOKLYN NY 11217 AUBRIE THERRIEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 7576198224 2026-01-30 true true JONATHAN A BANDER P00561220 2126842470 2026-01-30 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z AUBRIE THERRIEN 138 S OXFORD STREET BROOKLYN NY 11217 753854 false X www.epicplayersnyc.org X 2016 NY SEE SCHEDULE O 10 8 25 15 0 0 935921 573699 162042 177309 2846 928 0 1098891 753854 0 0 417980 448802 0 98877 397176 527701 815156 976503 283735 -222649 626468 427145 35682 59008 590786 368137 SEE SCHEDULE O false false 742071 0 177309 SEE SCHEDULE O 742071 true true false false false false false false false false true false false true false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 117 0 true 25 true false false false false false false false false false false X 10 8 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true false true false false false false NY X X AUBRIE THERRIEN 3476877610 138 S OXFORD STREET 3D BROOKLYN NY 11217 AUBRIE THERRIEN MEMBER/EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 20.00 X X 69231 0 0 TALIA EAPEN MEMBER/DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS 10.00 X 61923 0 0 KATHRYN IVIE CO-CHAIR 2.00 X X 0 0 0 JENNIFER GLAZER CO-CHAIR 2.00 X X 0 0 0 STACY NETTLETON SECRETARY 2.00 X X 0 0 0 CHRISTOPHER BOYATT TREASURER 2.00 X X 0 0 0 STEPHANIE TORNS MEMBER 2.00 X 0 0 0 DR DANIEL GARFINKEL MEMBER 2.00 X 0 0 0 VIRGINIA HOFFMAN MEMBER 2.00 X 0 0 0 MICHAEL FEGAN MEMBER 2.00 X 0 0 0 131154 0 0 false false false 108230 465469 573699 Contracted Workshops/Services 711110 101297 0 0 Ticket Sales 711110 76012 0 0 177309 2846 0 2846 753854 177309 0 2846 170578 61526 68526 40526 244636 244636 0 0 33588 24519 5710 3359 41837 0 41837 0 2798 2798 0 0 4238 1123 2962 153 87944 80240 3852 3852 162 0 162 0 16579 12103 2818 1658 ARTISTIC AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL COMP 285301 236175 708 48418 DEVELOPMENT EXPENSES 112 0 0 112 PRODUCTION EXPENSES 73115 73115 0 0 DUES & SUBSCRIPTIONS 145 0 145 0 15470 5836 8835 799 976503 742071 135555 98877 253167 267075 281550 69105 24720 22606 6965 20657 2068 2068 162 0 59904 47702 626468 427145 35682 59008 35682 59008 X 265786 203137 325000 165000 590786 368137 626468 427145 X -222649 X false true X true false X 0 0 317785 435398 642948 935921 573699 2905751 51146 58409 126228 162042 177309 575134 0 0 368931 493807 769176 1097963 751008 3480885 11179 83168 204042 487735 133069 919193 20204 12500 51855 14971 55695 155225 31383 95668 255897 502706 188764 1074418 2406467 2846 2846 2846 2846 3483731 0.69080 0.69820 0.00080 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 2068 2068 0 0 SECURITY DEPOSITS 0 FEDERAL CREDITS ACCRUED 47702 47702 X 753854 753854 753854 976503 976503 976503 Pt X, Line 2 THE ORGANIZATION HAS EVALUATED ITS CURRENT TAX POSITIONS AND HAS CONCLUDED THAT AS OF JUNE 30, 2025, THE ORGANIZATION DOES NOT HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT UNCERTAIN TAX POSITIONS FOR WHICH A RESERVE WOULD BE NECESSARY. Other PART III, LINE 1: ORGANIZATIONS MISSION EPIC PLAYERS, INC. FOUNDED ON AUGUST 15, 2016 IS A 501 (C) (3) NON-PROFIT, NEURO DIVERSE THEATRE COMPANY DEDICATED TO CREATEING PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORTIVE SOCIAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE ARTS FOR PERSONS LIVING WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. THOUGH OUR INCLUSIVE MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS, MUSICAL CABARETS, ORIGINAL SHOWCASES, SKILLS-BASED CLASSES AND CAREER RESOURCES, WE HOPE TO INCREASE CRITICAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, PIONEER INCREASED INCLUSION IN THE ARTS, AND BREAK DOWN SOCIAL STIGMAS SURROUNDING NEURO-DIVERSE COMMUNITIES. Pt XI PART III, LINE 4A: PROGRAM SERVICE ACOMPLISHMENTS EPIC Education: One of EPICs primary services are free classes and career development workshops for all company members living with developmental disabilities. In 2024/25, we offered over 100 classes in devised theater, improvisation, musical theater, film production, arts administration, and personal narrative. We served up to 20 individuals in each class, and 120 community members over all. We also employed 20 teaching artists and class mentors to support students. EPICs innovation stems from our neuro-inclusive teaching techniques and work culture. True to our mission, EPIC creates an environment where artists living with and without developmental disabilities can work and learn together in the same class or production. In our performing arts classes, EPICs teaching method is adapted to ensure all lessons are accessible to the learner, regardless of ability. EPIC continued its in school programming to teach social skills through the arts to students 8 to 18 who are living with developmental disabilities. EPIC worked with several school partners and hosted bi-weekly classes in 2024/2025 at each school from September to June with 12 students in each class and two teaching artists leading each class. We worked with over 700 students in NYC DOE public schools who are Disabled or Neurodivergent. With our free classes, we hope to provide the training and support needed for our Players to pursue a meaningful career in the arts and to expose students with disabilities to a pathway to accessible arts and creative confidence. EPIC Productions: EPIC works tirelessly to create professional quality performing opportunities in the arts for its neuro-diverse actors so they can get hands-on job experience in the field and be prepared to attain jobs outside of EPIC in the arts world. EPIC employs all of its neuro-diverse artists onstage and behind the scenes and pays them a stipend for their time and talent. EPIC produces 2 challenging, neuro-inclusive, and paid performances per year, reaching audiences of over 2000 people with each production . Our 2024 productions included Christmas Carol and Seussical The Musical as well as two cabaret productions at Joes Pub and an original spoken word production called The EPIC Underground: Storytellers. All of our mainstage productions are selected for their capacity to be elevated by a neuro-diverse cast. Each production provides our players with the opportunity to apply their skills in real-time, showcase their talent, and learn from professional colleagues in the arts. Our players serve as actors, assistant directors, stage managers, technicians, and front of house staff for our shows and each is compensated for their time and talent. In 2024/25, we held 107, 3-hour rehearsals for our two main stage productions and employed 77 neuro-diverse artists onstage and backstage along with 10 neuro-typical artists. Our audiences are also neuro-inclusive, with roughly 50% of our turnout consisting of members family and friends who are also living with neuro-diversities. Our audience feedback was overwhelmingly positive and reflected success in raising awareness of neuro-diverse communities and the challenges they face, with 30% of our attendees indicating that ours was the first neuro-diverse production they had witnessed; and that they were likely to return or similar performances. Through the access given by EPIC, company members have recently auditioned for, and won roles in, Off-Broadway productions, primetime television shows, and commercials; some members have even been featured in films shown across the nation and earned their actors union membership. Additional recent accomplishments include: being featured on Good Morning America, growing another branch of EPIC in Los Angeles with 50 members, being featured on EXTRA, being a NYTimes pick for our first original production. Pt VI, Line 11b A MEETING AMONG THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BOOKKEEPERS AND ACCOUNTANT TAKES PLACE TO DISCUSS ALL ASPECTS OF TAX RETURN PRIOR TO FILING. Pt VI, Line 19 THESE DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST.