EVOLVE COMPANY has been playing with puppets very seriously since 1996. Productions include Evolution (at HERE Arts Center, The Puppeteers of America National Festival and The Looking Glass Theatre, among other venues), Brains & Puppets, Secrets History Remembers and The Most Radiant Beauty. They have contributed puppets and models to UTC #61's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and were given the honor of creating the world premiere production of Motormorphosis, a play by former Czech President Václav Havel, as part of UTC #61's Havel Festival in NYC. They are devoted to the promotion of puppetry as a viable art form for adults as well as children, and to never quite doing the same thing twice.

TANYA KHORDOC (Co-Artistic Director) has performed, designed, and directed puppet theater at venues such as HERE, St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Puppeteers of America National Festival, the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan. She has collaborated with Untitled Theater Co. #61 in the 24/7 Festival and on Unauthorized Magic in Oz. Tanya designed and performed in a one-woman show written by Edward Einhorn about synesthesia, entitled The Taste of Blue. She also created stop-motion animation models for Henry Akona's production of Robert Lawson's Hiroshima: Crucible of Light.

BARRY WEIL (Co-Artistic Director) is an actor, playwright, director, filmmaker and graphic designer in addition to his work as a puppeteer and character creator. He has created puppets, masks and creatures for productions that include Hope & Anchor, Unauthorized Magic in Oz, Screaming Shrubbery, Uktena, Funny as a Crutch and Feast of the Dead. Barry also played the role of Frank Hoenniker/Puppeteer in Edward Einhorn's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. He has inhabited the man-eating plant in so many productions of Little Shop of Horrors that he's starting to sprout leaves. In addition, Barry is the assistant director/theatre coordinator for Levels, Long Island's acclaimed cultural center for teenagers.