Eli Gale (She/They) is a Jewish lesbian artist and theatre researcher from New York and based in London, England. Eli is an AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Partnership Funded PhD candidate at the University of Warwick in Theatre and Performance Studies. She received a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University of London, both practical and theoretical degrees that strengthened their skills as a theatre maker and in academia through critical theory-informed performance analysis. As a PhD candidate, their research analyses performances of Jewish and queer diasporic identities and politics in theatre and live art in London and New York. She has presented research at IFTR (International Federation of Theatre Research) 2025 at the Universität zu Köln and TAPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 2025 at the University of Warwick. Gale intends to build their experience as an early-career academic through teaching, further publishing and conference participation.

Gale’s PhD is supervised by Dr David Coates and Dr Bryony White.

Portrait by Felix Pilgrim