Writer, Theatre Artist, Feral Autist
Latest Musical Collaboration
‘Boas & Blindfolds’, a poem in Naomi Foyle’s debut collection The Night Pavilion, was released in 2023 as a song by The Vales, a musical collective comprising London-based singer-songwriters Nev Hawkins and Kirsten Morrison, and lyricist Naomi Foyle. Vox and video by Kirsten Morrison. Cover photo by john chapman / darkling eye. Watch this space for more songs from The Vales in 2024.
Latest Theatre Piece: ASTRA Multimedia Theatre
ASTRA is a multimedia theatre production for adults based on Naomi Foyle’s eco-SciFi series The Gaia Chronicles, designed and directed by Raven Kaliana and funded by Arts Council England and the University of Chichester. BSL Interpretation and Audio Description are integrated into this gritty adaptation written and produced by Naomi Foyle. ASTRA was performed in the summer of 2022 as a work-in-progress at Brighton Fringe, Chichester Fringe and a community sharing in Brighton, followed by Q&A discussions on the show’s themes, which include racism, disability rights, child abuse and climate crisis. To view the ASTRA mini documentary and trailer, visit the ASTRA website.
ASTRA won the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award for work that engages artists and audiences with social and environmental challenges.
Latest Publication: Importents
Importents, Naomi Foyle’s tenth poetry pamphlet, charts the converging crises of contemporary Britain on a long arc of austerity politics and historic injustice. A state of the nation address from a bunker in Brighton, Importents was published in July 2021 by Waterloo Press.
Read more about Importents and order it here.