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Naomi Wallace (born 1960) is an American playwright, screenwriter and poet from Kentucky. She is widely known for her plays, and has received several distinguished awards for her work.




Biography


Naomi Wallace was born in Prospect, Kentucky, to Henry F. Wallace, a photojournalist and correspondent for Time and Life magazines, and Sonja de Vries, a Dutch justice and human rights worker.
Wallace obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College. She then received two master's degrees from the University of Iowa. Currently, she divides her time between Kentucky and the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England (UK), where she lives with her partner, Bruce McLeod.

Wallace has taught English literature, poetry and play writing at Yale University, UCLA, Illinois State University, Merrimack College, American University of Cairo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and other institutions. In 2024 Wallace lectured at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She has also worked with women in the criminal justice system, and is a member of Showing up for Racial Justice. She has been called "a dedicated advocate for justice and human rights in the U.S. and abroad, and Palestinian rights in the Middle East," and her writing described as "muscular, devastating, and unwavering."




Activism


In the mid-2000s, Wallace was briefly detained by the United States Department of Homeland Security after defying the ban on travel to Cuba.
In August 2016, Wallace was one of the Freedom Riders with the Women's Boat to Gaza.




Publications


Wallace's plays are published in the U.S. by Broadway Play Publishing Inc., Theatre Communications Group, Faber and Faber in the UK, and éditions Théâtrales in France. Wallace's work has been produced in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.




Awards


Wallace's 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.
In 2009, One Flea Spare was incorporated into the permanent répertoire of the French National Theatre, the Comédie-Française, and produced there in 2012. Only two American playwrights have ever been added to La Comédie's repertoire in 300 years: the other being Tennessee Williams. The play was translated into French by Dominique Hollier.
In 2012, Wallace was a recipient of the Horton Foote Prize for most promising new American play.
In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize established at Yale University.
In 2015, Wallace received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.




Work






= Plays

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In The Heart of America
One Flea Spare
The Inland Sea
Slaughter City
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Jumper (with Bruce E. J. McLeod; licensed under the title The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Sweater in the United States)
The War Boys
Things of Dry Hours
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 (with Lisa Schlesinger and Abdelfattah Abusrour)
The Hard Weather Boating Party
One Short Sleepe
And I and Silence
The Liquid Plain
Night is a Room
Barrel Wave
The Return of Benjamin Lay (produced at the Finborough Theatre with Marcus Rediker)
The Breach
Returning to Haifa (with Ismail Khalidi (writer))
Guernica, Gaza (with Ismail Khalidi (writer))




= Anthologies

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Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora
Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas




= Essays

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"Trump-ocalypse Now? Theater in the Age of Trump"
"Radical Vision and Form" (interview)
"Let the Right One In: On resistance, hospitality and new writing for the American stage"




= Poetry

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To Dance A Stony Field (Peterloo Poets Press).




= Films

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Lawn Dogs
The War Boys, co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod
Flying Blind, co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod




References






External links



Official website
Naomi Wallace, Broadway Play Publishing Inc Playwright of the Year 1997
Connie Julian (March 14, 2004). "Naomi Wallace: Looking for Fire". Revolutionary Worker (1232).
Betty Shamieh (May 2008). "The Art of Countering Despair: Naomi Wallace". The Brooklyn Rail.

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• King Kong (film 2005)
• The Wanderer (film 1925)
• Angelina Jolie
• Kendall Jenner
• I Give It a Year
• Yerusalem
• The Society (seri televisi)
• Pemilihan umum Presiden Amerika Serikat 2016
• Movie 43
• Jew Süss (film 1934)
• Naomi Wallace
• Lawn Dogs
• The War Boys
• The Open House
• Ismail Khalidi (writer)
• Zoe Kazan
• Slaughter City
• Marcus Rediker
• Naomi Osaka
• Olwen Fouéré