EAGLE AGER (Brooklyn, NY) The illustrious guides to the Secret Theater! Dancer Charlotte Gibbons, sculptor Geoffrey Mosach and composer/musician Stephen Cooper make up this art-team/sculpture-band that mixes puppetry and performance art wtih experimental movement and music. See their on-line antics here.

MIRANDA'S 3 (Philadelphia, PA) Using movement, music and text, Richenda Cope, Kate DeRosa, and Sarah Lowry explore the possibilities of choral storytelling and strengthen THE TEMPEST's only female voice by shifting the perspective from which Act 1 is told.

SHODDY PUPPET COMPANY (Philadelphia, PA) Puppet Uprising curator Morgan F.P. Andrews has toured dozens of puppet shows around the U.S., Canada and Brazil. He has performed stories by John Cage with fellow shadow-master Erik Ruin and regularly works with Beth Nixon's Ramshackle Enterprises. Last year Morgan designed and directed shadow puppets for Sara Felder's play Out of Sight, curated puppet festivals in Pittsburgh and North Carolina, and authored a chapter about puppetry for the book Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, 2007).

THE MISSOULA OBLONGATA (Northampton, MA) Madeline ffitch (yes, "ffitch") and Donna Sellinger are frequent coroborators of dinner theater as well as five-company Shakespearian productions. They instigated THE TEMPEST in the footsteps of their touring play, The Wonders of the World: Recite, which received a weekend's worth of standing ovations in Philadelphia last winter. The Missoula Oblongata is also responsible for community experimental arts events that make use of performers and non performers, public and private space, visual atists and people who speak in tongues. These fearsome projects include The Colloquial Disforum, The Missoula Oblongata Repertory Theater, and most recently, My Pizza, My Idea. They returned to Philadelphia in June with the original full-length work of theatrical detection entitled The Most Mysterious Day of the Year.

WHAM CITY (Baltimore, MD) An unconcious collective from the land of painted window screens. Check our the Wham City website here.

BLACK WILLOW PRODUCTIONS (Philadelphia, PA) Aaron Birk has been tooling around in restoration ecology, comic books, stop-action animation and puppetry for seven years now. He recently combined his foci in the movement/puppet piece "Dance of the Ripidistian" for Puppet Uprising's Spring Thing. Through sheets of rain, scorching drought and gyres of turbulent matter, Aaron unveiled Black Willow Productions for this production of THE TEMPEST.