Naomi Wallace’s plays have been produced in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and the Middle East and include One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Liquid Plain, Night is a Room and an adaptation of Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani and The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon (both adaptations co-written with Ismail Khalidi).
In 2009, ON FLEA SPARE was incorporated in the permanent repertoire of the French National Theater, the Comédie- Francaise. Only two American playwrights have been added to La Comédie’s repertoire in 300 years.
Films: LAWN DOGS, THE WAR BOYS, FLYING BLIND (co-written with Bruce McLeod)
Awards: MacArthur Award, Obie, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Horton Foote Award, Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the inaugural Windham Campbell prize for drama.
Signature Theater, the Off Broadway company that has historically mounted a season of plays, produced three of Wallace’s plays in 2014-2015, including the world premiere of NIGHT IS A ROOM.
Wallace is currently under commission by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and is writing the book for the new John Mellencamp musical SMALL TOWN.
