Naomi Wallace’s plays have been produced in the United States, the U.K., Europe and the Middle East and include One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, In the Heart of America, The Breach, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, Night is a Room, The Return of Benjamin Lay (co-written with Marcus Rediker) and an adaptation of Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani and The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon (both adaptations co-written with Ismail Khalidi).
Awards include the MacArthur Award, Obie Award, 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. In 2025 Wallace was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. Wallace is currently writing the John Mellencamp musical Jack and Diane. Wallace is presently writing a new play with Ismail Khalidi for Ashtar theater in Ramallah.
