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Jenny Romaine, music director (some writing, some ringing) models her life on the radical stylings of Jennifer Miller/Circus Amok and is a founding member of Great Small Works [1] theater collective. She plays in the performance band Lesser Panda and is part of an intergenerational mob of artists committeed to keeping new Yiddish theater at the heart of social life.

Mary Feaster is a bass player and composer. She is a long-time member of The Velvet Mafia, a queer rock extravaganza fronted by Dean Johnson, and has worked with Circus Amok since 1997. She performs with The Electric Junkyard Gamelan, an ensemble headed by Terry Dame using instruments built from household and industrial objects. Feaster has also composed and recorded music independently for numerous independent films and videos which have been screened at festivals, museums and broadcast on public television worldwide.

Jessica Lurie is an instrumentalist, composer, and collaborator based in Brooklyn. She is a lead performer with The Tiptons Sax Quartet, the Jessica Lurie Ensemble, and Living Daylights Trio, and her talents, song writing, avant-garde style and use of technology has marked her as an innovator in her field. You can find her at JessicaLurie.com [2], or at her MySpace page [3].

Susan Watts, a trumpeter and vocalist, represents the youngest generation of an exciting klezmer dynasty that reaches back to the Jewish Ukraine of the 19th century, beginning with her great grandfather, bandleader and composer, Joseph Hoffman. A fourth generation musician, Susan is the sole living purveyor of a klezmer style trumpet and sound which electrified Jewish American audiences for decades. Susan has shared the stage with Dudu Fischer, Theodore Bikel, Claire Barry, Boban Markovic, DJ So-Called, Alicia Svigals, Margot Leverett, Henkus Netsky, among others. Susan is a member of Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Mikveh, and The Klez Dispensers. Recently, she scored and recorded the soundtrack for the award winning film, Breath and recorded the soundtrack for a documentary on Philadelphia klezmer, A Joyful Noise. Susan Watts Online. [4]

Ben Meyers, trombone, first met Jennifer aboard the freight elevator of the building Circus Amok shares with Autonomedia [5] (a radical small press where Ben helps keep things moving). When you can play a trombone, there's always a circus that will take you, and after a stint with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Ben joined the Amok flock. He has felt better ever since.