Past Residents

Kate Emden and michelle brint

Kate is a dancer, movement artist and writer. Their work pays attention to political cultures, what we do with different forms of (dis)embodiment and what they do to us, and how to encourage play and deepening senses of belonging. Recent projects have included FEAR (community dance performance, Siobhan Davies Studios), Not My Dad (drag king debut, Soho Theatre) and On (im)possible identities: an exploration of left-wing british jewish political subjectivies (participatory research, Birkbeck College).

michelle is a conceptual artist who works predominantly with found materials. she prefers to let her hands ask the questions, designs experimental protocols that attempt to totally isolate creation from analysis, and relishes in the joy of discovery which becomes possible through collaboration. 

Michelah Desnai 

Michelah Desnai is an Artist of many mediums; Her debut one act play The Road S Traveled premiered at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham with Unshaded Arts. She has played concerts in Kigali, Rwanda, Bali, Indonesia, and Madeira, portugal. She is very excited to work with Sadeh Farms and enjoy her residency.

Oreet Ashery

Oreet Ashery is a London based artist and educator. Their work has explored fiction, community, friendship and mutual care through the lens of class and gender, often in multi-platform projects that include video, performance, photography, sound, assemblage, textile and writing. Their practice crosses established arts institutions worldwide and grassroots social contexts. Ashery won the Film London Jarman Award in 2017 and in 2020 was a Turner Prize Bursary recipient, (replacing the Turner Prize during a pandemic year) for her influential work Revisiting Genesis, a 12-episode online film on illness, death, grief and digital legacy. In 2022 Ashery was commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, to produce the film  Selfish Road, a semi- autobiographical film that journeys through highways in and around Jerusalem. Most recently Ashery’s interests have included queer farming communities as way to imagine the past, present and future.

Alex Magneron

Born and living in Paris, Alex is studying Jewish literature and spends most of their time reading or writing poetry. Their work centers on Jewishness, exile, diasporism, mysticism and anarchy. Alex is also interested in the intersection between poetry and visual arts, especially photography and painting. They are a huge fan of Leonard Cohen and Arthur Rimbaud.

Tristan McShepherd 

Tristan McShepherd is an award winning filmmaker who co-founded the film collective, Take Cover Films, in 2012. His short films have screened at film festivals around the world winning numerous awards including a Best in Fest selection at Palm Springs International Shortfest and Best Yorkshire Short Film at Leeds International Film festival. Tristan has also worked extensively in theatre. He was Stephen Daldry’s video designer on The Jungle and the creative video director for the landmark project, The Walk, in 2022. He is currently working on a slate of feature films.

Dan Gouly

Dr Daniel Gouly is a clarinetist, composer, and co-founder of Don Kipper, an ensemble celebrated for its innovative blend of traditional Mediterranean and contemporary music, earning multiple awards and critical acclaim. He specialises in performing musics from across Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, and has studied with, and played alongside, legendary Klezmer musicians such as Alan Bern, Frank London, Merlin Shepherd, Christian Dawid, and Joel Rubin, as well significant figures from other traditions such as Manos Achalinotopoulos. With a strong focus on theatre, he has toured the UK, US, and Europe with the acclaimed Bubbleschmeisis, and created multi-sensory shows with Oily Cart and other theatre companies, demonstrating his commitment to accessible, community-focused art, blending music, storytelling, and cultural history to create compelling and impactful performances. He also has a parallel career releasing the deepest, darkest Techno he can make, and spends far too long hanging out with his synthesisers.

Emily Zinkin

Emily Zinkin is a queer, Jewish writer whose work has appeared in TLDR Press’ anthology ‘Hope’, Keats Collective, Lip Magazine, among others. Her work was recently longlisted for the Dorothy Dunnet short story prize, and she has also been a judge on the London Independent Story Prize (LISP), and is an editor for the Words of Wandsworth anthology. She has taught creative writing workshops at Wilderness Festival, the National Trust among others, and collaborated on creative projects with Rene Cassin, Moishe House, and others. She has a Creative Writing MA from the University of Nottingham.

Imani Mason Jordan

Imani Mason Jordan (b. 1992, London) is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator interested in poetics and performance. 

Imani has written numerous articles, reviews, essays, poems, plays and love letters, some of which they have published. Since 2016, they have developed a keen interest in poetics, oration, experimentation and practices of reading aloud, from which they have synthesised a performance practice that centres writing and collaboration as well as using the speaking voice as an instrument. After completing their MA in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths in 2019, their pamphlet OBJECTS WHO TESTIFY was published by Taylor Le Melle at PSS.

Imani is Director of PAPERFLESH PUBLISHING, a multi-genre small press and editing studio for the intellectually rigorous, politically minded black writer. Since 2018, they have curated exhibitions and public programmes alongside Rabz Lansiquot as Languid Hands and SYFU. Recent performance/audio projects include: EARTHLY ACCOMPLICE (2023) with Felix Taylor at MACBA, Barcelona & Crosness Pumping Station, London; TREAD/MILL: WIP (2021-) at Somerset House Studios, London & Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; ATLANTIC RAILTON: LIVE (2021) with Ain Bailey at Serpentine Pavilion, London & WELCOME NOTE IN A WELCOME SPEECH (2019-22) with Libita Sibungu at Gasworks, London & Spike Island, Bristol. 

Bethany McShepherd

Bethany McShepherd is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University, the Co-Founder of Blank Cheque: a micro feminist applied theatre company, and Head of Innovation at LAMDA.  She recently presented a paper at the Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, Florida on the social and cultural value of applied theatre as a starting point for innovative business models in applied theatre practice. Her 2022 short film, ‘The Women Inside,’ made with immigrant and refugee women in London, is the recipient of two best film awards, an honorable mention, and was selected as part of the United Nation’s Global Migration Film Festival.  Bethany’s research looks at the funding challenges faced by small, female-led applied theatre companies in England and explores alternative income generation opportunities.  

Emma Lewis-Jones

Emma Lewis-Jones is a choreographer, facilitator & dance dramaturg working across visual art, dance & interdisciplinary  performance. She is using her residency period at Sadeh in February to write about her research on ‘outside eyes’ in contemporary dance, to deepen somatic research within her choreographic practice and hopes to organise some big games of hide and seek on the grounds.

Simon Roth

Simon is a musician, composer and producer, known primarily as a drummer in the Contemporary and Klezmer music scenes. Simon grew up within a family of musicians between an old forest, the M25 and the Metropolitan line, immersed in Big Band Jazz, Free Improv, Classical music, Klezmer, 1960s Pop and a well worn tape of the The A Team Theme Tune.