https://theworkshopny.com/home daily 1.0 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633804993219-G8SMXFYATQNHIULD6Y20/The+Workshop+%281%29.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://theworkshopny.com/leadership daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633672215737-U14RXSJCK7U7TAHIGNB3/RET-AUDIT-KP.31AUG21-3M8A2259-010.JPG Leadership https://theworkshopny.com/faqs daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg FAQs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg FAQs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg FAQs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607638148090-Y6OFDI575CM3NQV732RJ/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0387.jpg FAQs https://theworkshopny.com/corefellowship-2 daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://theworkshopny.com/fellows-2022 daily 0.75 2023-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633671043373-IE50L9HPBRAVJEVYDXXW/RebeccaS%27mangaFrank+%281%29.jpg 2022 Inaugural Fellows - Rebecca S’manga Frank Discipline: Theatre Rebecca S’manga Frank is an actor, writer, filmmaker, educator, and activist. Most recently she performed in Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and on FOX’s Prodigal Son. She’s worked as a director at New York Theatre Workshop, acted with Sundance Theatre Lab in Morocco, and performed at many regional and off-broadway theaters. In 2020 Rebecca penned a "Psalm for Racial Justice" for Hillel International. She has brought her work to the Jewish Theological Seminary, and many theatrical, academic, and religious institutions. Rebecca is a 2021 LABA NY Fellow and a New Jewish Culture Fellow. NYU Grad Acting, MFA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633671190223-D3UJ0W9S94KG6RQSNPZG/IMG_5900.jpeg 2022 Inaugural Fellows - Benji Kahn Discipline: Theater/Film Benji Kahn is a Black/Biracial queer non-binary Jewish New York based playwright and screenwriter. They write towards outsiders yearning for a sense of belonging and underdogs reconciling with trauma… but like in a funny way. Their theatre background includes having written and directed for The Public Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble, and Dixon Place among others. They recently were chosen for the Sony TV Writers Fellowship, as well as The Workshop JOC Artist Fellowship and received a Reboot grant for their debut novel. They are currently writing a fantasy adventure feature for Disney based on their Animal Kingdom theme park and developing a half hour comedy for Sony, as well as developing several new plays. Kahn graduated with a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Columbia University where they graduated with honors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633671496118-BKNKFTNR0EWSY2FUIWD6/DanielTerna_portrait_300dpi.jpg 2022 Inaugural Fellows - Daniel Terna Discipline: Visual Art/Photography Daniel Terna is a Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on family history and inherited trauma, as well as diverse subjects related to public and private boundaries. In 2020, his work on his family during the quarantine was presented in a solo exhibition at Guertin’s Graphics, New York. In 2019, his work was included in a two-person show at LY, Los Angeles. Select group exhibitions include those held at Jack Barrett, New York (2019), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2018), Baxter St. Camera Club of NY (2015), and the New Wight Biennial, UCLA (2014). His work has also been screened at selected venues, including the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles (2020), MoMA PS1's film program in Greater New York, Queens (2016), the New York Film Festival’s Convergence Program (2014), Eyebeam, New York (2013), the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2012), and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (2011). Terna was a resident in the Collaborative Fellowship Program at UnionDocs, Brooklyn, and was awarded the Cuts and Burns Residency at Outpost Artist Resources in Ridgewood, NY. His work has been featured in Still Magazine, The New York Times, Dazed, Oxford American, Conveyor Magazine, Aint Bad Magazine, and Slate. Terna graduated with a BA in photography from Bard College and received his MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633990414242-N78159T0A9ATXLWIIF6G/WilliamDeMeritt.jpeg 2022 Inaugural Fellows - William DeMeritt Discipline: Theatre; Film William DeMeritt (he/him) is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. He can currently be seen in Steph Del Rosso’s The Gradient at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. He has previously been seen in Lauren Gunderson’s world premiere one-man show, The Catastrophist filmed on stage specifically to be streamed during the pandemic. William was featured at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival starring as William Shakespeare in the U.S. premiere of the stage adaptation of Shakespeare In Love. He has been featured in HBO’s Emmy-winning film The Normal Heart, HBOMax’s The Flight Attendant, the critically acclaimed webseries The Outs, NCIS: New Orleans, Person of Interest, and Law & Order:SVU. Additional theatrical productions of note: the Obie-Award winning production of The Death of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and he is also the creator, writer, and star of the New York Innovative Theatre Award winning solo show, Origin Story. William is also a dialect coach, theatrical and voiceover director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. @demeritt www.williamdemeritt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633669842625-Z0SU5H5WWX7A9GQ52C0Q/AviHeadshotColor%2BSquare.jpeg 2022 Inaugural Fellows - Avi Amon Discipline: Music; Theatre Avi Amon is a Turkish-American composer, sound artist, and educator. Recent credits include: THE COPPER CHILDREN (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), STEW (Soho REP), THE FISHERMAN (HBO Films), THE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM (HERE Arts), SALONIKA (Berkeley REP), and several sound installations in a 100-year-old grain silo in Buffalo, New York (Torn Space Theater & Prague Quadrennial). In development: HEROINE’S GUIDE (Spotify/Gimlet), CUPIDS (Tribeca Films), RATED BLACK with Kareem Lucas (Woolly Mammoth), and INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH: a 3-D-audio opera re-imagining of the 1,001 Nights (Target Margin Theater). He is a Jonathan Larson Grant and New Music USA Grant winner, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and has been an Artist in-residence with: THEatre ACCELERATOR, Goodspeed Musicals, Princeton, Exploring the Metropolis at JCAL, Hi-ARTS, Judson, New Dramatists, and Weston Playhouse. Avi is the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project and teaches at NYU Tisch. aviamon.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633670831348-RWDQBJ53PXMSJD3Y7SYD/NemunaCessay.JPG 2022 Inaugural Fellows - Nemuna Ceesay Discipline: Theatre Nemuna Ceesay (she/her/hers) is an actor originally from California and based in New York. She has an MFA in acting from American Conservatory Theater and has been seen onstage at CalShakes, Joe’s Pub, PlayMakers Rep, Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T., The Public Theatre, and spent 2 years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Favorite TV credits include: Bull, Broad City, Instinct, Younger, FBI, Prodigal Son and Katy Keene. She has performed internationally at Theatre Calgary and the Moscow Art Theatre. Nemuna has been teaching for many years and currently teaches acting at Hunter College, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and Long Island University. She recently launched an all BIPOC training program called The Blueprint and has her own business coaching actors for MFA Auditions. Follow her on Instagram @_nemuna_ @see.say.act and @theblueprintartist. You can also visit her website at www.nemunarceesay.com or learn more about The Blueprint at www.theblueprintartist.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633671368860-NHKAAWYKU41KU4JKNH0P/image.jpg 2022 Inaugural Fellows - Lilach Orenstein Discipline: Dance Lilach Orenstein is a Choreographer, Performer and Producer best known for combining diverse types of arts from multiple disciplines into poetical synergies. She is an Israeli immigrant with Yemeni-Polish-Romanian roots based in New York City. Lilach earned her B.Dance from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, majoring in choreography, in 2017 and her M.F.A in Dance from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, in 2019. Among her awards are The Presidential Scholarship (U.Arts), Outstanding Dancer from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Excellence Award by The Jerusalem Foundation. Lilach's creations "She Will Come on Her Own", "MUS", "Dancing from Others", "Reject – Receive > React!", "Territorium", "White on White", "Cēnsēre" and "Onions" were premiered in Israel's main stages and abroad. Recently, she assisted in choreographing the “The Mother of Us All” opera which presented at the Metropolitan Museum featuring vocal artists from The Julliard School and the NY Philharmonic marking 200 years for women’s suffrage. She is professionally trained from Aharon Katzir, Kolben dance, Matte Asher, Vertigo, and Batsheva's programs for outstanding students and interned at the Kamea dance company. She was recently invited to residencies in L1dancefest2019 – Budapest, The Center at West Park – NYC, EMERGENYC 2020 – NYC, IMPULSTANZ’s ATLAS program – Vienna, Derida Dance Center – Sofia, Machol Shalem Dance House – Jerusalem and Beam Center at Governor Island - NYC. https://theworkshopny.com/summer-salon daily 0.75 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/9d1e5d8a-cdad-4ddb-808c-bf5fd48f8f62/SALON+2+May+24%2C+2021+700p+JTS+3080+Broadway+%283%29.png Summer Salon https://theworkshopny.com/spring-salon daily 0.75 2022-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/95db7d52-8e09-4acd-a1c2-d313922a34cb/Spring+Salon+%281%29.png Spring Salon https://theworkshopny.com/awotm-fellows daily 0.75 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/f598001b-801f-4770-b5bc-afe2ad3b1cc7/optimized_moon_slideshow_image_final.jpg__1500x1000_q85_crop_subject_location-optimized_moon_slideshow_image_final.jpg_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg A Walk on the Moon Fellows Welcome to the iconic summer of 1969 when man walked on the moon, women fought for equal rights, the War in Vietnam raged on, and Woodstock showed America what the new generation stood for. At a Jewish bungalow colony in the Catskills, a young wife and mother, Pearl Kantrowitz, has an affair with the handsome blouse salesman. While the affair jeopardizes her marriage and creates pain and turmoil, Pearl is forced to undertake a journey of self-discovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/735f6edb-07c8-455e-891f-120519f3e37e/IMG_8776.JPG A Walk on the Moon Fellows - Clare Fuyuko Bierman Role: Playwriting Fellow Clare Fuyuko Bierman is a playwright and lyricist raised in a Japanese-Jewish home with some rabbits, a snake, and a bunch of finches. Current commissions include Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria (Book by Brandy Hoang Collier, Music by Erika Ji, Winner of 5th Avenue Theater’s First Draft Commission), and Theseus and the Minotaur and the Other Six (Music by Joshua Vranas, Youth Theater Northwest). Originally from Los Angeles, she received her MFA from New York University. https://www.clarebierman.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/a549b3a5-ebc9-4063-9a7e-bc090cfd2b50/Gabriella+Pe%CC%81rez.jpg A Walk on the Moon Fellows - Gabby Pérez Role: Directing/Choreography Fellow Gabby is a Latinx Jewish actor and choreographer in NYC. As an actor, she has performed off-Broadway, on national tours, and in regional theaters across the country. Her choreography has been seen at Geva Theatre, Forestburgh Playhouse, The Tank, and Newport Music Festival. Associate positions include: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and NYU. Gabby is a Helen Hayes Award nominee, member of AEA, Associate Member of SDC, and NYU alum. www.gabbyperez.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/70d02608-b0f0-41b3-9c1d-d8c47ce5f199/20220308_115602.jpg A Walk on the Moon Fellows - Prince Bawuah Role: Sound Design Fellow Prince Bawuah is a New Jersey based African American sound designer/technician and a soon-to-be graduate of Montclair State University (MSU). A major in theater production, his recent credits include Come Apart (The Tank), As You Like It (MSU), The Names we gave him (MSU) , Head over Heels (Alexander Kasser Theater), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (MSU). https://theworkshopny.com/pastprojects daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/f2e5f485-c269-4d46-8b83-31d425d43399/027-QP-WRKSHP_14NOV22_MG_0081+%281%29.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/e89db04d-694f-4e7e-8aad-63f8971a1d6b/005-QP-WRKSHP_14NOV22_A9S0326.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/730d5265-cd3f-4675-92da-4ebc4b9eae68/010-QP-WRKSHP_14NOV22_A9S0491.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/80b243a7-6402-4628-969d-e6ab7543720c/Avi+Amon+performing+his+new+concept+album+Mother%3ARoad.JPG Past Projects Musician Avi Amon performs excerpts from "Mother/Road" photo by Deneka Peniston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/219c89ae-42fa-430b-a840-23aa735177c1/Projections+of+Lilach+Orenstein%27s+new+dancework.JPG Past Projects The audience takes in Lilach Orenstein's work photo by Deneka Peniston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/9bc6569c-c532-4e1d-8833-31417ebc8f84/Lilach+Orenstein+Performs+a+New+Dance.JPG Past Projects Lilach Orenstein performs her new untitled experimental dance photo by Deneka Peniston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/33534475-c4b8-4984-aab6-3cf4bc22398c/003-TERNA.WRKSP_06MAR22-3M8A0794-Edit.JPG Past Projects Daniel Terna does live voice over of his work "Home Movies" photo by Deneka Peniston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/2ceb983f-26b2-49a3-8395-06a302adb00b/Image+2_+Workshop+Fellow+Rebecca+interviewing+someone+for+her+project+on+Non-monogamy+and+Jewish+identity+%281%29.JPG Past Projects (r) Rebecca S'manga Frank interviews a passerby for her docudrama, "The Non-Monogoloues" photo by Kendell Pinkney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/87eaa938-f39c-4209-ba51-9b0aba1c93f5/004-SNAPS.WRKSP_06MAR22-3M8A0818.JPG Past Projects (l-r) Fellows Daniel Terna, Nemuna Ceesay, and Bill DeMeritt at The Workshop's Spring Salon photo by Deneka Peniston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/ef5008c2-5f45-40fb-a96b-c0cc9ae7ca8f/398A1829+%281%29.JPG Past Projects The Workshop Fellows for "A Walk on the Moon: A New Musical" with the creative team (l-r) Clare Bierman, Gabby Pérez, Pam Gray, Sheryl Kaller, Prince Bawuah, AnnMarie Milazzo, Kendell Pinkney photo by Bruce Glikas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/deb59c70-ba45-4c71-8ae2-4c937b6e97bc/398A1837+%281%29.JPG Past Projects The Workshop Fellows for "A Walk on the Moon: A New Musical" at George Street Playhouse. (l-r) Clare Bierman, Gabby Pérez, Prince Abuwah, and Kendell Pinkney photo by Bruce Glikas https://theworkshopny.com/fellows-2023 daily 0.75 2023-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/5c186369-9d6b-48b0-84ff-e560cb70a4b7/MV5BY2ZlZDdlNWUtYjU3NC00MmUwLWIyMDQtMTczZDJiMGMyYWJmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzcyODY1OTk%40._V1_.jpg 2023 Fellows - Sharone Sayegh Discipline: Theatre SHARONE SAYEGH (she/her) is an Iraqi/Israeli/American theater artist in NYC. As an actor she has performed in multiple Broadway shows, and has written and directed Off-Broadway. She most recently played Bonnie in Come From Away on Broadway, after playing the role on the 1st National Tour. Before that, she originated the role of Anna in The Band’s Visit on Broadway (OBC). Other Broadway: Mamma Mia! Off Broadway: Mrs. Trumbauer in Road Show (City Center Encores), Anna in The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Co, World Premiere), Sharone in The Wildness (Ars Nova, World Premiere), and Scheherazade in Scheherazade (Prospect Theater Co). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, The Muny, Florida Rep, San Jose Rep. TV: Instinct (CBS), Limitless (CBS). Syracuse University Alum, sharonesayegh.com @sharonesayegh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/2eecb8e9-a67a-4f07-ab1e-05b7152abc81/Screen+Shot+2023-01-11+at+8.10.11+PM.png 2023 Fellows - Anthony Russell Discipline: Music For the past ten years ANTHONY RUSSELL (he/him) has been a vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language. Anthony's work with klezmer trio Veretski Pass resulted in Convergence, an exploration of a century of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music. His recent release on the Borscht Beat label with accordionist and keyboardist Dmitri Gaskin, Kosmopolitn, features their original settings of Yiddish modernist poetry for voice and string ensemble. Anthony has also been a culture essayist in a number of publications, including The Forward, Tablet Magazine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, PROTOCOLS, Full Stop Magazine, Ayin Press and Jewish Currents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/6b7ca79c-65af-4c64-9306-450a142c209c/sivan2_upload-43.jpg 2023 Fellows - Sivan Battat Discipline: Theatre Sivan Battat (she/they) is a theatre director & community organizer. Sivan has developed work with companies including Roundabout, NYTW, Drama League, Atlantic, Ars Nova, National Queer Theatre, New Georges, Goodman, New York Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, MCC and more. Sivan is the Associate Artistic Director of Noor Theatre, a company in NYC dedicated to supporting the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern descent. As an organizer, Sivan works with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and has curated several iterations of Salon Al-Mahjar صالون المهجر, a performance salon for queer & trans MENASA artists. Upcoming: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Studio Theatre, DC), Layalina (Goodman Theatre, Chicago). sivanbattat.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/fd167536-c06c-4b1b-835f-cd7fe51f8105/Screen+Shot+2023-01-11+at+8.03.02+PM.png 2023 Fellows - Luis Roberto Burgos Discipline: Photography Luis Roberto Burgos is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Neurodiverse Earthling based on Lenape Land, colonially known as New York City. Born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised between three boroughs, Luis lived in Los Angeles from 2013 to 2018. He learned how to question at Phillips Exeter Academy and how not to question at Bard College. His photography is often based in literature while his writing is visual and sensory. In 2022, NY Jewish Week named him one of the "36 to Watch." (Formerly 36 under 36) That same year, he debuted his first photobook, Moses of the City, which received a stellar review from The Forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/216b8c18-36e9-4a4e-a4ab-6d4e5b63da52/Alex+Chester-Iwata.JPG 2023 Fellows - Alex Chester-Iwata Discipline: Theatre; Journalism Alex Chester-Iwata (she/her) is an Actor and the Editor-in-Chief of Mixed Asian Media - A Media Platform to share stories and celebrate Mixed APIs, recognized by the Nielsen Consumer Report on Asian Americans. In 2022 she was honored as one of the top 50 Unsung Heros at Asian Hustle Network’s Uplifted Conference, and she was a grant winner at the Minority Women Lead's pitch competition. Some acting credits include Broadway’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Off-Broadway Keen Company’s This Space Between Us, TV’s The Good Fight, New Amsterdam, The Closer, ER. Alex is a community builder and has been featured in Shout Out LA, East Side Stories, The Mixed Space, AAPI Democracy Project, Theatre Art Life, No Cilantro Please, and Worst Asian Podcast. Alex is on the advisory board of her alma mater St. Mary’s College LEAP program, she is also a board member of ACE Next Gen’s NYC Chapter and of Strong Asian Lead and she is a Community Leader for the Lunar Collective. @MixedAsianMedia @AlexFChester https://theworkshopny.com/fellows-2024 daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/0b7564e3-eb5c-4745-8f52-0b4a267c6949/Alex+Chester+Iwata.JPG 2024 Fellows - Alex Chester-Iwata Discipline: Theatre, Journalism Alex Chester-Iwata (she/her) is the Founder/CEO of Mixed Asian Media - A website and community for mixed APIs, recognized by the Nielsen Consumer Report. In 2023 MAM hosted the first ever Mixed Asian Day in NYC. Alex received the 2023 Women of Distinction Award from the Assembly 69th of California, and she was one of the Asian Hustle Network’s top 50 Unsung Heros in their inaugural year. She received her BA in 2021 from St. Mary’s College graduating with honors and received the Dean’s Award for community engagement and academic excellence. Alex is the Chapter President of ACE Next Gen NYC and is on the Board of Directors for American Advertising Federation LA. She is on the advisory board for the Lunar Collective, and her alma mater, St. Mary's LEAP Program. She is part of the Associate Board of New York Asian Film Festival, is a member of Gold House, and part of their inaugural Journalism Program. Alex is also an Actor. Some acting credits include: Broadway’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Gillian in This Space Between Us Off Broadway’s Keen Company. TV credits include: New Amsterdam, The Good Fight, and The Closer to name a few. @AlexFChester @MixedAsianMedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/9329e9d9-1b42-4b62-a866-6ca8999f1966/Nemuna+Ceesay.jpg 2024 Fellows - Nemuna Ceesay Discipline: Theatre Nemuna Ceesay (she/her) is an actor/director/educator based in New York. Select theater credits: New York Theatre Workshop (Here There Are Blueberries), Actors Theatre of Louisville (Loving and Loving), Shakespeare Theatre Company (Here There Are Blueberries), The Shed (Straight Line Crazy), Second Stage (Patience), Two River Theater (Three Sisters), PlayMakers Rep (The Christians and Tartuffe), Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T., The Public Theatre (What To Send Up... tour), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2015/2016 seasons). Select TV credits: Bull, Broad City, Instinct, Younger, FBI, Prodigal Son, and Katy Keene. Select Directing credits: The Kitchen (Uncle!), Playwrights Horizons (Amusements), 66th Obie Awards, Clubbed Thumb Winterworks (Reply All), Associate Director of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning A Strange Loop on Broadway. 2022 Clubbed Thumb New Play Directing Fellow. Fellow at The Workshop: North America’s first arts fellowship centering the work of JOCISM (Jews of Color, Jewish-Indigenous, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists & culture-makers. Founder and Creative Director of an all BIPOC training program called The Blueprint. MFA in acting from American Conservatory Theater. Visit her website nemunaceesay.com and follow her on Instagram @nemuna.ceesay and @theblueprintartist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/5c186369-9d6b-48b0-84ff-e560cb70a4b7/MV5BY2ZlZDdlNWUtYjU3NC00MmUwLWIyMDQtMTczZDJiMGMyYWJmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzcyODY1OTk%40._V1_.jpg 2024 Fellows - Sharone Sayegh Discipline: Theatre SHARONE SAYEGH (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary theater artist based in NYC. As an actor she has performed on Broadway as Bonnie in Come From Away, originated the role of Anna in The Band’s Visit (OBC) which won 10 Tony Awards, and made her Broadway debut in Mamma Mia! She has performed, written, directed, and produced Off-Broadway and regionally, having worked at some of the most prestigious theaters in the country including The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, La Jolla Playhouse, Prospect Theater Co, and The Muny. She has also appeared on Television in Law & Order (NBC), Instinct (CBS), and Limitless (CBS). She is a 23/24 'The Workshop' fellow, the co-writer of the new musical The Game Boy, and is currently writing The Goldsmith, a play stemming from her family's true stories, across countries, borders, and generations. Syracuse University Alum, www.sharonesayegh.com @sharonesayegh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/bb3a5cbc-0227-473d-8e83-11c646f73fac/Daniel+Terna.jpg 2024 Fellows - Daniel Terna Discipline: Visual Art/Photography Daniel Terna (b. Brooklyn, 1987) is a Brooklyn-based artist working in photography and video. Terna’s work focuses on family and inherited trauma, blending autobiographical narratives with a tourist’s approach to exploring sites, be they memorials, cities, personal archives, or the body itself. He has exhibited his work in select solo and group shows at the St. Ottilien Archabbey, Bavaria, Germany (2023); the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore (2023); Jack Barrett, New York (2022 and 2019); Guertin’s Graphics, Red Hook, NY (2020); LY, Los Angeles (2019); Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2018); Baxter St. Camera Club of New York (2015); the BRIC Arts Media Biennial, Brooklyn (2014); and the New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles (2014). His work has been screened at the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles (2020); MoMA PS1's film program in Greater New York, Queens (2016); the New York Film Festival’s Convergence Program (2014), the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2012) and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (2011), among others. Terna is a recipient of select fellowships and residencies at The Workshop, New York (2021); the Asylum Arts Small Grant (2019); Asylum Arts’ International Jewish Artist Retreat, Garrison, NY (2018); the New Jewish Cultural Fellowship, Brooklyn (2018); the Cuts and Burns Residency at Outpost Artist Resources, Ridgewood, NY (2013); and the Collaborative Fellowship Program at UnionDocs, Brooklyn (2011). His work has been featured in The New York Times, Apartamento, Pin-Up, Buffalo Zine, Still magazine, and Aint–Bad magazine, among others. Terna founded and co-directed the artist-space 321 Gallery, Brooklyn (2012-20). Terna graduated with a BA in photography from Bard College and received his MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/56fafdca-f7fb-44b8-af1c-7fa6e10e3d1a/Clare+Bierman.jpeg 2024 Fellows - Clare Fuyuko Bierman Discipline: Theatre Clare Fuyuko Bierman is a librettist and lyricist raised in a Japanese-Jewish home with some rabbits, a snake, and a bunch of finches. Her writing often involves ecological absurdism, campfire stories, made-up games, unexpected sea shanties, and proscenium-less playspaces. Recent: Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria (commissioned by 5th Avenue Theater 2021, Civilians R&D 2022, Orchard Project Performance Lab 2023, O’Neill New Musical Theater Conference 2023, NAMT festival 2023, Vivace Award 2023, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2024) and Cry, Wolf (Commissioned by Washington National Opera 2024). Immersive work: VISARE (New Voices Winner 2020, Vivace Award Nomination 2021) and [untitled hat project] (NYFA grant 2021). She has participated in the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, and Broadway’s Future Songbook Series. MFA New York University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/ca598c5c-275f-460e-8d8a-f6a7994a0e6f/Anthony+Russell.png 2024 Fellows - Anthony Russell Discipline: Music Anthony Russell is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in Yiddish culture. His album Convergence, with klezmer trio Veretski Pass, is an exploration of a century of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music. Kosmopolitn, his recent release with Dmitri Gaskin, features their original settings of Yiddish modernist poetry for string ensemble. A past Hadar Rising Song Fellow (2021-22) and present Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow (2023-25) Anthony has expanded his work into cultural activism through collaboration with the Workers Circle and as an essayist in a number of publications, including The Forward, Tablet Magazine, JTA, PROTOCOLS, Ayin Press and Jewish Currents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/fd167536-c06c-4b1b-835f-cd7fe51f8105/Screen+Shot+2023-01-11+at+8.03.02+PM.png 2024 Fellows - Luis Mercedes Winter Discipline: Photography Luis Mercedes Winter is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Neurodiverse Earthling based on Lenape Land, colonially known as New York City. Born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised between three boroughs, Luis lived in Los Angeles from 2013 to 2018. He learned how to question at Phillips Exeter Academy and how not to question at Bard College. His photography is often based in literature while his writing is visual and sensory. In 2022, NY Jewish Week named him one of the "36 to Watch." (Formerly 36 under 36) That same year, he debuted his first photobook, Moses of the City, which received a stellar review from The Forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/1633669842625-Z0SU5H5WWX7A9GQ52C0Q/AviHeadshotColor%2BSquare.jpeg 2024 Fellows - Avi Amon Discipline: Music,Theatre Avi Amon is a Turkish-American composer, sound artist, and educator. Recent credits include: THE COPPER CHILDREN (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), STEW (Soho REP), THE FISHERMAN (HBO Films), THE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM (HERE Arts), SALONIKA (Berkeley REP), and several sound installations in a 100-year-old grain silo in Buffalo, New York (Torn Space Theater & Prague Quadrennial). In development: HEROINE’S GUIDE (Spotify/Gimlet), CUPIDS (Tribeca Films), RATED BLACK with Kareem Lucas (Woolly Mammoth), and INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH: a 3-D-audio opera re-imagining of the 1,001 Nights (Target Margin Theater). He is a Jonathan Larson Grant and New Music USA Grant winner, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and has been an Artist in-residence with: THEatre ACCELERATOR, Goodspeed Musicals, Princeton, Exploring the Metropolis at JCAL, Hi-ARTS, Judson, New Dramatists, and Weston Playhouse. Avi is the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project and teaches at NYU Tisch. aviamon.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/bd33eea1-f134-4451-a4e0-e0b46f63f50e/Rebecca+S%27manga+Frank.jpg 2024 Fellows - Rebecca S'manga Frank Discipline: Theatre Rebecca S'manga Frank is an actor, writer and culture-worker based in Brooklyn. Her Black, Jewish, and Swazi roots help inform her intersectional work and commitment to collective liberation via poetry, performance, plays, teaching, ritual leading, music, filmmaking, and as a Story Doula. Most recently she performed in the Berlin Diaries with David Greenspan (59E59th), as Althea Gibson in Love All by Anna Deavere Smith (La Jolla Playhouse), and in At the Wedding by Bryna Turner (LCT3 Lincoln Center). Her writing has been featured in Lilith Magazine, at Lab/Shul, Reboot, Elm Shakespeare, JCC Manhattan, Society Theater (ensemble member), Alter Theatre, and many others. Fellowships: The Workshop, New Jewish Culture Fellowship, LABA New York, B'Yachad Educator (alum), and Rabbinic Arts (current). She received her MFA from NYU Grad Acting and BA in creative writing from Mills College. Her new play Valence is in development with support from NJCF and Studio Tisch this summer. @smanga_yahart https://theworkshopny.com/fellows-2025 daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/a32c908c-a267-4f99-b897-f54832847920/Adam_Shaukat_Headshot+%281%29.jpeg 2025-2027 Fellows - 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/88d867a5-f85f-48c3-81b1-0d4889861f90/Noah_Keyishian_Headshot+%281%29.jpg 2025-2027 Fellows - 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/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/04d51151-166b-4242-b1e0-dcbc333bfbeb/Lily+Henley.jpg 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e515b2750ef51d39add752/963dc793-98e3-403c-9952-494f7d70bbdf/Mor_Mendel_Headshot+%282%29.jpeg 2025-2027 Fellows - 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 https://theworkshopny.com/corefellowship daily 0.75 2025-12-12