Elsa Saade is a multidisciplinary artist and political mobilizer. Over the last decade, she has been a musician, puppeteer and street performer with several political theaters including Bread and Puppet Theater and Redwing Blackbird Theater. She has also been a grant maker, fundraiser and program strategist for feminist funds and grassroots movements, such as Urgent Action Fund and Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. She bridges her practice with her lived experience in Lebanon where she was born and as an immigrant in New York City. When performing, obsessed with grief and turmoil embedded in folk songs and traditions of Bilad Al Sham and beyond, Elsa wants her art to serve as a doula of moments around metaphorical birth and death.
Elsa Saade
