Faculty Bio

Gail Segal Assistant Arts Professor Tisch Asia Email: gs31@nyu.edu

Courses

Aesthetics

Education

B.A. in Politics Wake Forest University Graduate Studies in Film and TV UNC Chapel Hill MFA in Creative Writing Warren Wilson College

Biography

Gail Segal is a poet and filmmaker. A passion for documentary stirred in graduate school in North Carolina expanded to large format films working with renowned IMAX directors, Francis Thompson and Bayley Silleck in New York City. Subsequent film experience has included the Peabody Award winning film, Arguing the World (Co-Producer), the feature length documentary, Five Wives Three Secretaries and Me (Story Editor and Assoc. Producer), and a 15-part television series, The Shakespeare Hour, hosted by Walter Matthau (Assoc. Producer). She initiated a documentary practicum for The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and served as Interim Chair of the Grad Film Division from 1998 to 2000. Her essay, A Praise of Doubt, is anthologized in the book entitled, Artistic Citizenship:  A Public Voice for the Arts.  A first book of poems, In Gravity' Pull was published in 2002. Translations of Italian poet, Alfredo de Palchi appear in his book length collection, Addictive Aversions. She is currently working on a book of essays about film style and developing a dramatic feature in red clay farm country of southwest Georgia. Soapy, her latest film, is a short documentary about a barber she met in Georgia while researching the feature project.