Cynthia Nixon and Nilaja Sun to Host Epic Education Benefit 2016

On March 20, 2016 (6:30 pm) join Epic Theatre Ensemble in honoring outstanding education partners working for diverse communities in New York City. The event will be hosted by award winners Cynthia Nixon (Wit, Rabbit Hole, Sex and the City) and Nilaja Sun (Epic Artist & Mentor, No Child...., Pike St.).

Epic Theatre Ensemble will acknowledge the work and vision of Terry Grey, Theresa Wyre, Shawneeqwa Greene, and Jodi Honeycutt, who ensured, for more than 11 years, the partnership between Epic Theatre Ensemble and The Bronx High School for Writing and Communications Arts.

Epic Education Benefit 2016 is also an opportunity to experience 10467, a brilliant play by young theatre-makers ofEpic NEXT that tear through the lies and misconceptions regarding educational inequities in New York State and across the nation. This special one-night-only performance of 10467 is the final full performance before the show tours to Washington, DC and the National Theatre of Scotland's EXCHANGE 2016.

Epic's mission is to create bold work with and for diverse communities that promotes vital discourse and social change. Epic Theatre Ensemble accomplish this mission by inspiring students to be creative and engaged citizens, presenting compelling topics that transform the way people think, and collaborating with artists, students and thought leaders to produce plays about key issues.

For more than 15 years, Epic Theatre Ensemble's professional productions include both the development of new work by compelling contemporary voices as well as fresh encounters with classics. Whether producing a reading of Dominique Morisseau's Mend at the United Nations, or creating a new look at the power of political manipulation Off-Broadway with Born With Teeth (a/k/a Shakespeare's Richard III) the goals are the same: to engage WITH the community, to explore social, political, and ethical issues, and to use that engagement to spark action.