Our support of Epic Theatre Ensemble, an in-school, school-wide educational arts integration model that builds language and literacy skills to improve students’ academic performance and college access, led to strategic partnerships with a group of small schools all sharing a campus at Evander Childs School complex. Epic successfully accomplishes an integration of the arts with academia and college preparation by connecting students with professional artists who have been cross-trained in the Epic curriculum, which embeds test prep and college awareness into the fabric of the artistic program. In the first pilot of the program, college application, acceptance, and enrollment rates approached 100% for students who participated both in-school and after-school. We supported the expansion of the program in which students write and perform theater productions that incorporate academic lessons, and those interested in participating in after-school theater programming take part in the Shakespeare Remix or Epic NEXT programs, which provide more intensive arts-plus-education interventions. Epic also developed a remote-hybrid model that can exist entirely online or can be combined with live small-group experiences and large whole-group online sessions.