Seth Eberle is a Minneapolis based puppet artist who uses various puppetry forms to tell compelling stories to family audiences. Seth has been a performer, builder, and teaching artist in numerous capacities since 2009. Seth's work has been seen at Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre in Iowa, Dreamland Arts in St. Paul, the Off-Leash Area Art Box in Minneapolis, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, the Minnesota Zoo, libraries, pre-schools, schools, and community centers around Minnesota. Seth has studied puppetry with Kurt Hunter, Bernd Ogrodnik, Puppets in Prague, and numerous puppet artists around the Twin Cities. He has received the Minnesota State Arts Board’s Artist Initiative Grant and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s NextStep Grant to expand his puppetry work, and in 2021, he received a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation to fully mount “The Box King.”

Kurt is a Minneapolis-based puppeteer best known for his innovative solo marionette work. He has worked as a performer, designer, builder, teacher and director for In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Z Puppets Rosenschnoz and the O’Neill National Puppetry Conference. He has studied with marionette masters Phillip Huber and Albrecht Roser. In 2008 he received an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence in Puppetry for “Sock Puppet Serenade.” In 2018 he was awarded a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation for development of “Penguin in my Pocket.”

Kallie Melvin is a puppeteer and teaching and performing artist. Several of the places she has worked with include Monkeybear Harmolodics Workshop, In the Heart of the Beast Mask and Puppet Theatre, Z Puppets I, Puppet Lab, and Weisman Art Museum. She is also the Acting Regional Director of Puppeteers of America Great Plains. She uses her original puppetry work as a means to tell stories and explore her experiences as an intercontinental transracial adoptee growing up in the Twin Cities.

Chase D. Burkhart is an educator, performer, and creator of music based in southern Minnesota. Raised in the wonderful arts community of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Burkhart earned both his bachelors and masters degrees at NDSU in Fargo. Burkhart taught music in the Twin Cities public schools and performed with various organizations, including the VocalEssence "Ensemble Singers", Fringe Festival, and various churches. This is his second collaboration with Seth Eberlie and Kallie Melvin, the last being 2019's "With Stars Above" which premiered at the Off-Leash Area Art Box in South Minneapolis.