Ronnie Kuller is a composer, arranger, pianist and accordionist who has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Philharmonic, and Mister Tom Musick, and whose compositions have been performed at Ear Taxi Festival and recorded onto wax cylinder at Edison National Historical Park. She lives in Chicago with her wonderful husband Patrick and amazing daughter Sylvie.
Emmy Bean is a singer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work combines improvisation, conversation, folk tunes, narrative, poetic inquiry, political urgency and embodied expression. She writes songs and performs both as a soloist and with the trio 80 Foots. She has been seen in Facility Theater’s Little Match Girl Passion, Theater Oobleck’s Baudelaire in a Box, and has created sound and music for Facility Theater’s production of Phoebe in Winter. She has collaborated with Stacy Rene Erenberg, Ami Saraiya, Jace William, Erica Mott, Naima Lowe, Opera-Matic, the Neo-Futurists, John Szymanski, Beyond This Point, and ~Nois saxophone quartet. Her solo show You’re His Child has been seen at the Pivot Arts Festival and Rhino Fest here in Chicago. She holds a masters degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Columbia College Chicago.