Laura-Jane Foley Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

In 2016, Foley collaborated with composer Stephen Barlow for a new opera composition ‘She sings it differently’. It premiered at the National Portrait Gallery on 24 June 2016.

In 2016 Foley was shortlisted for an Aviva Women of the Future Award in the Arts and Culture category.

According to newspaper reports, Foley was in a relationship with lyricist Tim Rice, which ended in February 2016. She gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte, on 12 October 2016.

In 2015, Foley’s play An Evening with Lucian Freud appeared at the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End. The one woman play with video cameos starred Cressida Bonas, Alastair Stewart and Maureen Lipman. The play was based on Foley’s own experience with Lucian Freud after she rejected an offer to become his muse. The play received a lot of press attention.

In 2009, Foley curated and edited The Butterfly Book, a charity art book which included contributions from Tony Blair, Kate Winslet, Grayson Perry, in aid of Leukaemia Research. She also contributed to Cambridge University – An 800th Anniversary Portrait (2009), The Old Parsonage (2010) Poetry from Art (2011) The Echoing Gallery (2013).

As a journalist, Foley has written for The Independent, TES, The Art Newspaper and The Liberal. From 2008-2010, she edited Politick! a political magazine for young people aged 18–35.

Laura-Jane Foley (born July 1982 ) is a British playwright and art historian. Her play An Evening with Lucian Freud played at the Leicester Square Theatre in 2015. She lectures at the University of Cambridge in History of Art and Creative Writing.