Naomi Wallace
Encyclopedia
Naomi Wallace is a playwright
, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky
, United States
.
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.
She was detained after defying the ban on travel to Cuba.
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, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
(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.
Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs
, and The War Boys are both available on DVD.
in the U.S.A., the play is titled "The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Sweater" (available at Broadwayplaypublishing.com)
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky
Prospect, Kentucky
Prospect is a city in far northeastern Jefferson and southwestern Oldham Counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky, along the Ohio River. The city is a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. It's one of few cities in Jefferson County that extend into another county. The population was 4,657 at the 2000...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Life
Wallace obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire CollegeHampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...
and did graduate studies at the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
.
Naomi Wallace divides her time between Kentucky and the Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is the name given to an upland area in Northern England.The area lies within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, though it spans the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria...
, 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.
She was detained after defying the ban on travel to Cuba.
Her plays are published by Faber and Faber in London, and Theater Communications Group and Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, along with Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Inc., and Samuel French Inc., is one of the four major New York play publishers and licensors of stage rights...
in the U S. Wallace's work has been produced in both the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
Awards
Her work has received the Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeSusan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is for English-language women playwrights. Named for Susan Smith, alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer.-Winners:* 1978-79 Mary O'Malley* 1979-80 Barbara Schneider...
(twice), the Joseph Kesselring
Joseph Kesselring
Joseph Otto Kesselring was an American writer and playwright known best for his play Arsenic and Old Lace, written in 1939 and originally entitled "Bodies in Our Cellar." He was born in New York City to Henry and Frances Kesselring. His father's parents were immigrants from Germany. His mother was...
Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Fellowship of Southern Writers
The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literary organization founded in 1987 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by 21 Southern writers and other literary luminaries...
Drama Award and an Obie award
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
development grant.
Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs
Lawn Dogs
Lawn Dogs is a 1997 drama film released by Rank Organisation, which is their last film, directed by John Duigan and screenwritten by Naomi Wallace. It stars Sam Rockwell and Mischa Barton. Although filmed in Louisville and Danville, Kentucky in the U.S., Lawn Dogs is a British film produced by...
, and The War Boys are both available on DVD.
Plays
- One Flea SpareOne Flea SpareOne Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace, is an award-winning play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London.Play synopsis from Eclipse Theater:A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together...
, - Slaughter CitySlaughter CitySlaughter City is a play written by Naomi Wallace. It tells the story of the otherworldly Cod's employment at a slaughterhouse.-Plot:The play was inspired by a number of labor-related incidents including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 in which textile workers found themselves locked...
, - 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)
Films
- Lawn Dogs
- The War Boys, co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod
- Flying Blind, co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod