Naomi Wallace

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Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky. Her plays include: In The Heart of America, One Flea Spare, Slaughter City, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Jumper (with Bruce McLeod), The War Boys, Things of Dry Hours, Birdy (an adaptation of William Wharton's novel), The Fever Chart and Twenty One Positions: A Cartographic Dream of the Middle East, co-written with Lisa Schlesinger and AbdelFattah Abu Srour. Her plays are published by Faber and Faber in London, and Theater Communications Group and Broadway Play Publishing Inc. in the U S.

Wallace obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and did graduate studies at the University of Iowa. Wallace's work has been produced in both the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Egypt. Her work has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award and an Obie. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. She is a dedicated advocate for justice, human rights, communism, and Palestinian rights in the Middle East.

Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs is available on DVD. Her new film, The War Boys, co-written with Bruce McLeod, will be available in 2008.

Naomi Wallace divides her time between Kentucky and the Yorkshire Dales, UK, where she lives with her partner and family.