This picture was taken on the island of Tinos, Greece, in April this year (2024).
I am a multi-award winning playwright and my plays have been performed throughout the world. In 2024, a Gail Louw Season of four plays was held at The Playground Theatre in London. In 2023, three plays were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Just a few examples of my plays: 'Blonde Poison' continues to be produced widely, with productions at The Sydney Opera House, Auckland, Berlin, South Africa and the USA. ‘Duwayne’ won Best New Play at Brighton Festival and Fringe 2014. 'Miss Dietrich Regrets' has been produced in Prague in Czech continually from 2017 to the present. 'And this is my friend Mr Laurel' began to tour in 2012 and continues to the present. ‘Shackleton’s Carpenter’ is another play that has toured throughout the UK and Ireland and performed on the Queen Mary 11, together with playwriting workshops, during a crossing from New York in 2022.
Twelve plays have been published in three collections and three standalone ones as well.
Before I became a full-time playwright and novelist, I was an academic at the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine in Brighton, where I have lived since I came to England from South Africa.
My debut novel ‘Rika’s Rooms’ has been published by Waterloo Press and is available on Kindle.
This picture was taken on the island of Tinos, Greece, in April this year (2024).
I am a multi-award winning playwright and my plays have been performed throughout the world. In 2024, a Gail Louw Season of four plays was held at The Playground Theatre in London. In 2023, three plays were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Just a few examples of my plays: 'Blonde Poison' continues to be produced widely, with productions at The Sydney...
Rika's Rooms explores the experiences of an ordinary woman caught up in intense love and loss during extraordinary times.
As a young girl of only fourteen, Rika leaves behind her beloved parents, and escaped Nazi Germany just prior to the outbreak of World War Two. She fled to Palestine, and lived with her aunt in Tel Aviv, rather than her...
Blonde Poison; Miss Dietrich Regrets; Shackleton's Carpenter; Two Sisters
Four plays, four iconic characters
Blonde Poison: Stella Goldschlag, a Jewish woman living illegally in war-torn Berlin, is betrayed and tortured. When offered the chance of saving herself and her parents from the death camps, she agrees to be a ‘Greifer’ for the Gestapo and inform on Jews in hiding. Decades after the war Stella agrees to be...
Duwayne; The Mitfords; The Half Life of Love; Joe Ho Ho
The second collection of plays from Gail Louw, including the plays Duwayne, The Mitfords, The Half Life of Love and Joe Ho Ho.
DUWAYNE: Traumatised by his best friend's murder, Duwayne Brooks was treated as a potential criminal instead of a witness. He faced years of torment by those who should have been on his side. He survived Stephen...
