{"id":198039,"date":"2026-04-15T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:46:07","slug":"rent-will-get-a-majority-neurodiverse-disabled-revival-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198039\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent Will Get a Majority Neurodiverse, Disabled Revival Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EPIC Players\u2014New York&#8217;s leading neuroinclusive theatre company\u2014will present a 30th anniversary revival of <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/rent-nederlander-theatre-vault-0000002708\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rent<\/a> this summer featuring an almost entirely neurodiverse and disabled cast.\u00a0Travis Burbee will direct the production, running June 4-June 14 Off-Broadway at\u00a0A.R.T.\/New York Theatres.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jonathan-larson-vault-0000006640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Larson<\/a>&#8216;s Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning rock musical retells Puccini&#8217;s La Boh\u00e8me story, transforming its 19th-century Bohemians into a group of artists living in New York&#8217;s\u00a0East Village in the 1980s\u00a0navigating love, loss, poverty, addiction, and the AIDS crisis. The Epic Players production will reimagine the historic work through a neurodivergent and disability-centered lens.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThirty years after Rent first gave voice to communities rarely represented on stage, its themes remain profoundly relevant,\u201d said Aubrie Therrien, executive and artistic director of Epic Players, in a statement. \u201cThis production reflects Epic&#8217;s mission to create space for every voice, and to ensure  inclusion in the arts, and dismantle social stigmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The cast will include Eric\u00a0Fegan as Mark,\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/conor-tague\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Tague<\/a> as Roger, Genesis Solivan as Mimi,\u00a0Jocelyn Elena Stout as Maureen, Lai Williams as Joanne, Joshua Cartagena as Angel, Cameron Walker as Collins, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/hunter-hollingsworth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Hollingsworth<\/a> as Benny.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They will be joined by\u00a0Ahjaah Marie Jewett, Alex Herrera, Andrew Kader, Diana Osorio, Elisa Weiss, Ethan Homan, Gravity Queen of Hope and Love, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/kevin-ray-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Ray Johnson<\/a>, Laisha Gonzalez, Malcolm Hollis, Micah Tremblay, Nick Prior, Nina Sarna-Jones, Sarah Getzler, and Sven W.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicplayersnyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EPIC Players\u2014New York&#8217;s leading neuroinclusive theatre company\u2014will present a 30th anniversary revival of Rent this summer featuring an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-198039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}