Janice Perry

Janice Perry (also known as GAL) is an American performance artist. Described as "a cross between Doris Day and a high-velocity rifle", her interdisciplinary work has been presented on stage, published, screened at film festivals, adapted for radio and television (NPR, PBS, BBC), and exhibited at academic and cultural institutions in the United States and Europe. Perry began international touring in 1981.

She has received multiple fellowships for live performance, visual art, and teaching from the Fulbright Commission /US Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Community Foundation, and other organizations. Her performance/installation, Being Derrida,

Perry taught performance studies as a Fulbright professor and more traditional stage work with groups of students, and emerging and established artists in the US, Europe, South Korea, and South Africa, researching performativity in intersectional identity, theoretical, social, and scientific concepts.