Gail Louw
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Gail Louw (1951)[1] is a South African-born British playwright.
Born Gail Levy in Johannesburg on 13 October 1951 to a middle class Jewish family. She left South Africa to live in Israel after finishing school at 17, becoming one of the first students on the Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem. Returning to Johannesburg she continued her studies in 1971 at the University of the Witwatersrand, completing a degree in English and a teachers’ diploma.
In 1976 she moved to Brighton in England where she had a variety of jobs, including teaching at the University of Brighton and becoming the Progamme Leader in Public Health at the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine.
