2025-2027 Fellows
Lily Henley
Discipline: Music
Lily is a singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist working at the intersection of Sephardi Ladino and American folk music. Her album Oras Dezaoradas (2022, Lior Editions Paris) was named Album of the Year by Hey Alma Magazine and featured in The Guardian, Songlines and the Fretboard Journal. A Fulbright award winner and Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers artist, she has received support from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the New York Foundation of Arts, the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, and held residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, JArts Boston, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She had collaborated with Irish guitar legend John Doyle and mystic-folk band Rising Appalachia. Lily tours regularly, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Harvard University.
http://www.lilyhenley.com/bio
Noah Keyishian
Disciplines: Acting; Writing
Noah Keyishian is a Black and Jewish actor and writer from Jersey. He received his MFA in acting from UC San Diego and has been working professionally as an actor in New York City and regionally ever since. Off-Broadway: Franklinland (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (Berkeley Rep.); The Lehman Trilogy (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Olney Theatre Center); Love All; (La Jolla Playhouse); Are You There? (44th Humana Festival); A Christmas Carol; Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Throughout his work, he has had the opportunity to reflect on his identity and upbringing, and looks forward to continuing these reflections with the structure and community that The Workshop offers.
https://www.noahkeyishian.com/
Mor Mendel
Discipline: Dance; Performance Art
Mor Mendel is a performance artist, choreographer, dance improviser and educator. Mendel always danced but never defined technique or form as part of her dance calling. Instead, she is invested in movement that is part of who we are in our everyday life, movement that has a play with imagination, intuition and personal stories. Dance as the playground of poetry, memories and the ones we love, music and our shared existence. Mendel’s teaching focuses on individual pathways to joy inside ones’ body, creativity and self-exploration.
Mendel earned her BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv as well as her Improvisation mastery with dancer Ilanit Tadmor. In 2012 completed her master’s in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has traveled the world while also working as a free-lance dancer collaborating with many gifted artists.
Mor misses the landscape of her childhood and prays for new possibilities and peace. She is a mother of two curly boys.
https://www.mormendel.com/about
Adam Shaukat
Disciplines: Acting; Writing; Producing
Adam Siddiqui Shaukat is an actor, writer, and producer who was born in New York City. Film & TV: The Pitt (HBO), Not Suitable For Work (Hulu), Zero Day (Netflix), Switch (starring Pauline Chalamet), and The Philosophy of Dress. Theater: Dakar 2000 (Manhattan Theatre Club), Romeo & Juliet (American Repertory Theater), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Chautauqua Theater Company). In 2025, he Produced and acted in Seams, written and co-directed by Malachi Beasley (A House of Dynamite). He also Associate Produced and acted in HEARTEATERS, co-written and co-directed by Celeste O’Connor (Madame Web).
He studied Philosophy and Middle Eastern Studies at Carleton College, where he started at WR/KR on the varsity football team as a walk-on, and where he captained the varsity baseball team. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Adam’s mother is Ashkenazi Jewish and his father is South Asian Muslim. IG: @AdamShaukat