Resident Artists

Kate Ireland is a writer, performer and community engaged artist from Glasgow. She has been part of the Traverse Young Writers, the BBC Words first Mentoring Scheme and was featured as an emerging writer by the Edinburgh International Festival.

Kate makes up a quarter of the female led performance art group Collectivebreak and is the founder and creative director of Blether, an arts collective based in Manchester that run monthly cabaret nights and workshops exploring a playful, joyful and community focused approach to performance and storytelling.

As a community engaged artist Kate has worked with prisoners, care-experienced young people, refugees, adults experiencing mental ill-health and children with additional support needs. Kate’s work is firmly rooted in care-driven acts of collectivity and connection.

As a Roundhouse Resident Artist, Kate will be exploring themes of neuro-diversity, self-hood and overstimulation in a solo-show.

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Noah Jacob is an Arab-British poet, performer and critic based in London. Her writing often explores boundaries between human and unhuman, interrogating the poetry within biology, automaton and nature, particularly the ocean.

She is an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective 2021/22, having placed second in the Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2021. She is an editor and co-writes a column on diaspora poetry for Zindabad Zine. She is also an alum of Apples and Snakes ‘The Writing Room’ and T.S. Eliot Prize Young Critics. Her work has been published by Shubbak , Camden Inspire and Peckham Festivals, as well as orangepeel, Hecate, and Kalopsia mags.

As part of the Roundhouse Resident Artist Programme, Noah is working on a poetry-music E.P., exploring themes of heritage and intergenerational relationships, nature and mythology and religion.

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Tife Kusoro is a Nigerian-British writer and performer. Her creative practice is focused on creating work for theatre, poetry and screen. She was a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and trained as an actor with the National Youth Theatre Rep company. Her work often explores themes of coming of age, Black girlhood and diasporic identity. Most recently, her poem ‘the only other dark skinned girl’ won second prize in the 2022 National Poetry Competition.

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Jessica Fatoye is a writer, aspiring director, and poet. She is an alumna of the first cohort of the Almeida Theatre Young Creatives, having written the book for a short musical which was performed in May 2023.

She has previously been commissioned by the Museum of Oxford as part of their ‘Stories from the Spires’ series. She has published work in Onyx Magazine and Phi Magazine, as well as working as a Poetry and Fiction editor for Onyx Magazine, 2020-2021.

Currently she is working on writing for both the stage and the screen and is looking to produce her first short film this year. As a Roundhouse Resident Artist, she is working to finish her first full-length play that will explore grief, identity, and the humour that can be found within those spaces.

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Amy (pronounced AH-MI) Gadiaga is bassist,vocalist and composer and dancer from Paris based in London. She graduated from Trinity Labans Conservatoire of music and Dance where she studied double bass and won several distinctions including a prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society and nominated this year for Jazz new comer of the year by the Parliamentary Jazz awards.

Connecting the old school jazz tradition of musicians such as Betty Carter or Wayne Shorter with her own style, Amy offers performances that celebrates artistry and freedom.’

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Faker Villain is a gathering of three genre-bending instrumental experimentalists, coming together as friends, to tell stories through music. Individually, they are Faye Thompson on saxophone and bass clarinet, Kavi Maraj on bass guitar, and Dillon Harrison on drums and percussion.

The trio’s music emerges from a unique approach to collaboration that is spontaneous, yet thoughtful, allowing them to unleash an untethered, musical energy that binds them together. The result is an exceptionally original performance that utterly captivates the heart, soul, and body of listeners. Inspiration is drawn from pasts and presents to create something entirely new and mystical, transporting listeners through the fantastical soundscapes of Electronica, Jazz, Hindustani Classical, Ambient Experimental, Progressive Metal, and many other far-flung worlds.

Faker Villain are working towards the release of their first record whilst also exploring various avenues of collaboration and worldbuilding as part of that process.

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Gigi Williams is a musician and presenter from London. Her music is a blend of soul, singer-songwriter and guitar lead instrumentals. She’s played festivals such as Wild Paths, El Dorado and Kite Festival. In 2023 she will be releasing her 2nd EP ‘Big Picture’, with her debut single ‘Foolish Lady’ having already been played on BBC Radio.

Her radio show ‘Shelf-Raiders’ can be found on Balamii and explores music history through song

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Born and raised in North London, Hohnen Ford grew up immersed in London’s vibrant Jazz scene, becoming fixated on instrumental jazz music of the 20th Century and later studying Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music.

Since graduating, Hohnen has been developing a unique and timeless approach to songwriting drawing on influences from the Great American songbook to classic songwriters and artists such as Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman.

Whilst writing and recording her debut release, Hohnen Ford cultivated a devoted online audience through performances at her piano, live-streamed from her home to millions each week.

Taking confidence from these performances she set about creating her first release, a combination of self-written songs and collaborations with the likes of Matt Maltese, creating a collection of intimate songs recorded at home, on the very same piano they were written on.

Her debut EP “Infinity” was released in October ’22 and she’s currently working on her next E.P. Between tours and writing collaborations, she has toured Europe supporting Matt Maltese and the UK supporting Etta Marcus and was named ‘One to watch’ by sofar sounds for 2023.

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Nurtured transatlantic, Tendertwin is a forager for half-lived stories. Born in Istanbul, Tendertwin’s distinctive voice soaks up Turkey’s rich musical heritage from the lapping tides of the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and filters it through drifting time spent in Philadelphia and London — a familiar folk sound with an industrial glitch where landscapes are entangled in ambient sounds, wrong-footing melodies and unpredictable arrangements carrying subtle illusions of Linda Perhacs and Regina Spektor.

Plastik follows Tendertwin’s former singles, Absolute Nobody and Triangles, which put her on the radar of international press (La Blogothèque, WXPN, Secret Meeting, UPROXX), and esteemed playlist features (New Music Friday, EQUAL, Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Fresh Finds).

Tendertwin’s latest involvements include a live Take Away Show and a Stay Away Show with La Blogothèque; live performances at Oxford and London; Rear Window, a track in collaboration with PAWS member Phillip Jon Taylor; and multiple radio features on BBC Introducing and BBC Scotland in anticipation of the release of her EP.

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London-based singer and songwriter, Naima Adams, delivers soaring vocals that bristle with energy and honesty, that groove with the best funk and have deep soul roots.

From an Italian-American background, she moved to London to pursue music and, thus far, her career has seen her share the stage with musicians from India, Brazil, Colombia, the Faroe Islands as part of the Roundhouse Music Collective and perform alongside the likes of Sampa The Great, Comet Is Coming, Nubya Garcia, and Celeste, as well as performing at a number of festivals including We Out Here Festival, Love Supreme and Glastonbury’s Park Stage, and appearing on radio & TV programmes such as Jools Holland and The Annie Mac Show.

She recently took part in Abram Wilson Foundation’s career development programme and released two tracks with her community project, Scrapbook Mixtape. As a Roundhouse Resident Artist, Naima is working towards her debut release.

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