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Rent Will Get a Majority Neurodiverse, Disabled Revival Off-Broadway
Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical will run this June at A.R.T./New York Theatres via EPIC Players.
April 15, 2026 By Meg Masseron
EPIC Players—New York's leading neuroinclusive theatre company—will present a 30th anniversary revival of Rent this summer featuring an almost entirely neurodiverse and disabled cast. Travis Burbee will direct the production, running June 4-June 14 Off-Broadway at A.R.T./New York Theatres.
Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize–winning rock musical retells Puccini's La Bohème story, transforming its 19th-century Bohemians into a group of artists living in New York's East Village in the 1980s navigating love, loss, poverty, addiction, and the AIDS crisis. The Epic Players production will reimagine the historic work through a neurodivergent and disability-centered lens.
“Thirty years after Rent first gave voice to communities rarely represented on stage, its themes remain profoundly relevant,” said Aubrie Therrien, executive and artistic director of Epic Players, in a statement. “This production reflects Epic's mission to create space for every voice, and to ensure inclusion in the arts, and dismantle social stigmas.”
The cast will include Eric Fegan as Mark, Conor Tague as Roger, Genesis Solivan as Mimi, Jocelyn Elena Stout as Maureen, Lai Williams as Joanne, Joshua Cartagena as Angel, Cameron Walker as Collins, and Hunter Hollingsworth as Benny.
They will be joined by Ahjaah Marie Jewett, Alex Herrera, Andrew Kader, Diana Osorio, Elisa Weiss, Ethan Homan, Gravity Queen of Hope and Love, Kevin Ray Johnson, Laisha Gonzalez, Malcolm Hollis, Micah Tremblay, Nick Prior, Nina Sarna-Jones, Sarah Getzler, and Sven W.
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