THE SEMI-UPRIGHT PUPPET COMPANY (Jason Hicks and Quince Marcum) ring in Act I with a crash of music, trash, puppets and bad Italian accents filtered through the mountains of North Carolina, the swamps of Lousiana, and the streets of New York City. The Semi-Uprights come from a long line of notorious brass bands and puppet troupes, including the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, RPM Puppet Conspiracy, and the Bread & Puppet Theater.

GREEN CHAIR DANCE GROUP (Sarah Gladwin Camp, Hannah de Keijzer, Gregory Holt, Graeme McHenry abd Danielle Currica) is a plucky band of collaborative dancefolk who have been roaming the fields for the last six years, having peddled their dancewares at the PhillyFringe, Florida Dance Festival, and the International Contemporary Dance Festival in Bytom, Poland. Green Chair's members teach a variety of dance arts in Philadelphia, and are dedicated to bringing dance into all the troubles of the present age. They will be pesenting Act II of Julius Caesar.

PUPPETYRANNY (Candra Kennedy, Craig Hendrix, John Sinclair, Kestrel Plump, Leslie Rogers, Owen Brightman and Zac Palladino) is a commitee of craftastic wrongdoers based in Philadelphia and featuring tyrannical circus and annoyance arts from abroad. The Puppetyranny presnts Act III through a mix of animation, live music, puppetry, stiltwalking, flying trapeze, piñata swinging, and regular old acting. Rumor has it that the Puppetyranny has ties to Spiral Q Puppet Theater, Walking Fish Theater, the Baltimore Annex Theater, the Arden Theater Company, the Bread & Puppet Theater, and yes, even Puppet Uprising.

NOMMO THEATRE (Mitchell Ferguson and Bashi Rose from Baltimore, Maryland) is devoted to creating work that entertains, provokes thought, and ignites healthy debate. Originating with the Dogon of Mali, the term "nommo" ("the word") came through popular use during the Black Arts Movement by literary artists such as Larry Neal and Paul Carter Harrison. For Act IV of Julius Caesar, Nommo Threatre fuses the text of The Bard through the Black experience with all its ritual, spirituality, and resistance intact. Come to Nommo's workshop on March 13th at Studio 34—Click here for details!

FENCE KITCHEN—a perpetual work-in-progress employing original music, lighting design, dance, and marionette manipulation and object installation—performs Act V of Julius Caesar as the husband-and-wife team of Tim Harbeson and Buffy Miller. Tim is a composer, sculptor, furniture maker, wooden boat builder, and puppeteer who has exhibited at Philly's ICA and John Zorn's Tonic, plus served as a member of cult bands Tarpigh and Cerberus Shoal. Buffy is a Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer, having danced and toured internationally for a decade in New York's Ballet Tech and created over 30 new works with Eliot Feld. Both Buffy and Tim have earned fellowships from the State of Maine and now run the Stillhouse Theatre in Philadelphia's Mount Airy neighborhood.

JACOB BERENDES is a performer, musician and proprieter of good taste from Providence, Rhode Island who has been enlisted to guide the audience from act to act in this 5-company production of Julius Caesar.