Naomi Wallace

Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky, United States.

Life

Wallace obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and did graduate studies at the University of Iowa.

Naomi Wallace divides her time between Kentucky and the Yorkshire Dales, UK, where she lives with her partner Bruce McLeod, with whom she has three children.

She is a dedicated advocate for justice and human rights in the U.S. and abroad, and Palestinian rights in the Middle East.^[1]

She was detained after defying the ban on travel to Cuba.^[2]

Her plays are published by Faber and Faber in London, and Theater Communications Group and Broadway Play Publishing Inc. in the U S. Wallace's work has been produced in both the United Kingdom,^[3] Europe, the United States,^[4] and the Middle East.

Awards

Her work has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), the Joseph Kesselring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award and an Obie award. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts development grant.^[5]

Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs, and The War Boys are both available on DVD.

Work

Plays

• In The Heart of America. Theatre Communications Group. 2001. ISBN 9781559361866. http://books.google.com/?id=eu9Dh_WlHwwC&dq=Naomi+Wallace&printsec=frontcover. 
• One Flea Spare,
• Slaughter City,
• The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek,
• The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Jumper (with Bruce E. J. McLeod),

in the U.S.A., the play is titled "The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Sweater" (available at Broadwayplaypublishing.com)

• The War Boys,
• Things of Dry Hours, 2009
• Birdy (an adaptation of William Wharton's novel),
• The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East,
• Twenty One Positions: A Cartographic Dream of the Middle East, (co-written with Lisa Schlesinger and AbdelFattah Abu Srour). 2008
• The Hard Weather Boating Party, 2010
• One Short Sleepe, 2009
• And I and Silence, (published by Faber and Faber 2011)

Poetry

• To Dance A Stony Field (May 1995). 

Films

• Lawn Dogs^[6]
• The War Boys, co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod
• Flying Blind, co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod

References

1. ^ http://chass.ucr.edu/news/2009/january/01-15-09.html
2. ^ Lyn Gardner (6 February 2007). "Enemy within". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2007/feb/06/lyngardner.features11. 
3. ^ http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Performing-Arts/Naomi-Wallace-The-Trestle-at-Pope-Lick-Creek.708895
4. ^ "Naomi Wallace". The New York Times. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/naomi-wallace/. 
5. ^ "Naomi Wallace's Development Process for "The Hard Weather Boating Party"". New Play Blog. New Play Development Program, Arena Stage. March 13, 2009. http://npdp.arenastage.org/2009/03/naomi-wallaces-development-process-for-the-hard-weather-boating-party-.html. 
6. ^ Lawn Dogs (1997), IMDb

External links

• Naomi Wallace, Broadway Play Publishing Inc Playwright of the Year 1997
• Connie Julian (March 14, 2004). "Naomi Wallace: Looking for Fire". Revolutionary Worker (1232). http://revcom.us/a/1232/naomirwinterview.htm. 
• Betty Shamieh (May 2008). "The Art of Countering Despair: Naomi Wallace". The Brooklyn Rail. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/05/theater/the-art-of-countering-despair-naomi-wallace. 

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