Eli Gale (She/Her) is a Jewish lesbian artist and theatre researcher from New York and based in London, England. Gale is an AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Partnership Funded PhD candidate at the University of Warwick in the Theatre and Performance Studies. She received her 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 in which she strengthened her skills as a theatre maker and in academia in critical theory informed performance analysis. As a PhD candidate her research lives at the intersection of diasporic Jewish and queer theatre and live art, theatre studies, queer theory and Jewish studies. She has presented her 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 grow her experience as an early career academic with teaching, further publishing of her work and conference participation.

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