Gail Babb is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in new writing, devising and experiments with form. She has created shows for theatres, found sites – including museums, swimming pools and a derelict school – as well as national and international touring.

As director and dramaturg, she has worked with Fuel, Brixton House, China Plate, National Youth Theatre, Soho Theatre, Coney, Tamasha and Hackney Showroom. Recent credits include, as director, STARS by Mojisola Adebayo (Tamasha/ICA), BODIES by Ray Young (Unlimited/Southbank Centre) and as co-creator, The Body Remembers (Heather Agyepong/Fuel) and Run it Back (Talawa).

Gail was Producer for Participation & Learning at Talawa Theatre Company from 2007-2018, where she brought work with communities and emerging artists to the centre of the company. Gail continues to facilitate creative processes in community settings and co-directs the MA in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

In 2021, she won the Kenneth Tynan Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy and was named one of Alfred Fagon Awards’ 25 Black Champions of Theatre. She was also an Arts & Media Finalist in the Black British Business Awards 2020 and was awarded a Clore Fellowship in 2017.