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{{Short description|American playwright, screenwriter and poet}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Naomi Wallace
| image = Naomi and raccoonNaomi_Wallace.jpg
| caption = Wallace andat raccoonthe inUniversity Kentuckyof Athens
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}}
| birth_place = [[Prospect, Kentucky]], U.S.
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Naomi Wallace was born in [[Prospect, Kentucky]], to Henry F. Wallace, a photojournalist and correspondent for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazines, and Sonja de Vries, a Dutch justice and human rights worker.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cummings|first1=Scott T.|last2=Abbitt|first2=Erica Stevens|title=The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues|date=December 18, 2013|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=9781137017925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FDmvAgAAQBAJ|accessdate=August 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A.R.T. - American Repertory Theater - Naomi Wallace|url=http://americanrepertorytheater.org/person/naomi-wallace|website=americanrepertorytheater.org|accessdate=August 12, 2016}}</ref>
 
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, with<ref>{{cite whomweb|url=https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/758163.family-spend-holidays-dodging-rubber-bullets/|title=Wallace she& hasMcLeod threeFamily children.{{Citationspend needed|date=Decemberholiday 2023dodging rubber bullets}}</ref>.
 
[[File:Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Wallace teach at a high school in New Haven.jpg|thumb|[[Jeremy Scahill]] and Naomi Wallace giving a writing workshop in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].]]
 
Wallace has taught English literature, poetry and play writing at her alma maters, [[Yale University]], [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], [[Illinois State University]], [[Merrimack College]], [[American University of Cairo]], [[Vrije University ofUniversiteit Amsterdam]] and other institutions. In 2024 Wallace lectured at the [[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]] <ref>{{Citationcite neededweb|dateurl=Decemberhttps://www.deanphil.uoa.gr/anakoinoseis_kai_ekdiloseis/proboli_ekdilosis/i_polybrabeymeni_amerikanida_theatriki_syggrafeas_naomi_wallace_sto_amfitheatro_tis_bibliothikis_tis_fi/|title=Wallace lecturing at the National University of 2023Athens}}</ref> 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|Showing up for Racial Justice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/|title=Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)|publisher=|accessdate=August 12, 2016}}</ref> 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,"<ref>{{cite web |title=CHASS: IN THE HEART OF AMERICA by Naomi Wallace |url=http://chass.ucr.edu/news/2009/january/01-15-09.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518211841/https://chass.ucr.edu/news/2009/january/01-15-09.html |archive-date=May 18, 2018 |accessdate=August 12, 2016 |publisher=}}</ref> and her writing described as "muscular, devastating, and unwavering."<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://windhamcampbell.org/2013/winner/naomi-wallace|title=Windham Campbell Prizes – Naomi Wallace|website=The Donald Windham-Sandy Campbell Literature Prizes|publisher=[[Yale University]]|accessdate=August 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008044711/http://windhamcampbell.org/2013/winner/naomi-wallace|archive-date=October 8, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
== Activism ==
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In August 2016, Wallace was one of the Freedom Riders with the [[Women's Boat to Gaza]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37278-women-s-boat-to-gaza-prepares-a-new-challenge-to-israel-s-blockadeGaza|title=Women's Boat to Gaza Prepares a New Challenge to Israel's Blockade|first=Joe|last=Catron|publisher=[[Truthout]]|accessdate=August 21, 2016}}</ref>
 
Wallace is a supporter of the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] and [[Jewish Voice for Peace]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
 
==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.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/naomi-wallace/ | work=The New York Times | title=Naomi Wallace| date=April 8, 2009 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The Fever Chart |url=http://schools.aucegypt.edu/huss/arts/theatre/archive/Pages/TheFeverChart.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111052612/http://schools.aucegypt.edu/huss/arts/theatre/archive/Pages/TheFeverChart.aspx |archive-date=2018-01-January 11, 2018 |access-date=December 3, 2023-12-03 |website=[[The American University in Cairo]]}}</ref>
 
==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://npdp.arenastage.org/2009/03/naomi-wallaces-development-process-for-the-hard-weather-boating-party-.html |title=Naomi Wallace's Development Process for "The Hard Weather Boating Party" |date=March 13, 2009 |work=New Play Blog |publisher=New Play Development Program, Arena Stage |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005084607/http://npdp.arenastage.org/2009/03/naomi-wallaces-development-process-for-the-hard-weather-boating-party-.html |archivedate=October 5, 2010 }}</ref>
 
In 2009, ''[[One Flea Spare]]'' was incorporated into the permanent répertoire of the French National Theatre, the [[Comédie-Française]], and produced there in 2012. Wallace is the only living American playwright to enter the répertoire.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}} 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/fr/evenements/une-puce-epargnez-la11-12#|title = One Flea Spare (Une puce, épargnez-la) at La Comédie-Française}}</ref>
 
In 2012, Wallace was a recipient of the Horton Foote Prize for most promising new American play.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alumna Naomi Wallace wins Horton Foote Prize {{!}} Iowa Now - The University of Iowa |url=https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2012/09/alumna-naomi-wallace-wins-horton-foote-prize |access-date=December 4, 2023-12-04 |website=now.uiowa.edu |language=en}}</ref>
 
In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prize]] established at Yale University.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.yale.edu/2013/03/04/yale-awards-135-million-nine-writers |title=Yale awards $1.35 million to nine writers |work=[[YaleNews]] |author=Dorie Baker |date=March 4, 2013 |accessdate=March 5, 2013}}</ref>
 
In 2015, Wallace received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2015-04-07 |title=American Academy of Arts & Letters Awards to Naomi Wallace and Zachary Lazar {{!}} Iowa Writers' Workshop {{!}} College of Liberal Arts & Sciences {{!}} The University of Iowa |url=https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/resources/news/american-academy-arts-letters-awards-naomi-wallace-and-zachary-lazar |access-date=December 4, 2023-12-04 |website=writersworkshop.uiowa.edu}}</ref>
 
==Work==
 
[[Signature Theatre Company|Signature Theatre]], 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''.<ref name=":1" />
 
===Plays===
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* ''The Liquid Plain''
* ''Night is a Room''
* ''[Barrel Wave''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.breakthewallproject.org/barrel-wave-1 |title=Barrel Wave]''|website=Break The Wall}}</ref>
* ''The Return of [[Benjamin Lay]]'' (produced at the [https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/the-return-of-benjamin-lay/ Finborough Theatre]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/the-return-of-benjamin-lay/|title=The Return of Benjamin Lay at the Finborough Theatre}}</ref> with [[Marcus Rediker]])
* [http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2018/returning-to-haifa.php ''Returning to Haifa'' (with Ismail Khalid)]
* ''The Breach''
* ''The Return of [[Benjamin Lay]]'' (with [[Marcus Rediker]])
* ''Returning to Haifa'' (with [[Ismail Khalidi (writer)]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/returning-to-haifa/|title=Returning To Haifa – Finborough Theatre}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/mar/05/returning-haifa-review-finborough-london-palestine-palestinian-israeli#:~:text=Finborough%2C%20London&text=Adapted%20by%20Ismail%20Khalidi%20and,without%20some%20form%20of%20reconciliation|title=The Guardian review - Returning to Haifa}}</ref>
 
===Anthologies===
* Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora<ref>{{cite web |editor1-last=Wallace |editor1-first=Naomi |editor2-last=Khalidi |editor2-first=Ismail |url=https://www.tcg.org/ecommerce/showbookdetails.cfm?ID=TCG7818 |title=Browse Titles - Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora |publisher=[[Theatre Communications Group]] |accessdate=August 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725220023/http://www.tcg.org/ecommerce/showbookdetails.cfm?ID=TCG7818 |archive-date=July 25, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/D/Double-Exposure|title=Double Exposure|via=www.playwrightscanada.com}}</ref>
*[https://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/genres/anthologies/double-exposure-plays-of-the-jewish-and-palestinian-diasporas.html Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas]
 
===Essays===
* [http"Trump-ocalypse Now? Theater in the Age of Trump"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/10/24/trump-ocalypse-now/ |title=Trump-ocalypse Now?|first1=Ismail|last1=Khalidi|first2=Naomi|last2=Wallace|date=October Theater24, in the2017|website=AMERICAN Age of Trump]THEATRE}}</ref>
* ["Radical Vision and Form"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2015/11/10/radical-vision-and-form-a-conversation-with-naomi-wallace/ |title=Radical Vision and Form]: A Conversation With Naomi Wallace|first=Joel|last=Murray|date=November 10, 2015|website=AMERICAN THEATRE}}</ref> (interview)
* [http"Let the Right One In: On resistance, hospitality and new writing for the American stage"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2013/01/01/let-the-right-one-in/ |title=Let the Right One In:|first=Naomi|last=Wallace|date=January On resistance1, hospitality and new writing2013|website=AMERICAN for the American stage]THEATRE}}</ref>
* [https://www.tcg.org/TCGBookstore/News/TheLiquidPlain.aspx Robin D. G. Kelley's introduction to The Liquid Plain]
 
===Poetry===
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* ''[[Lawn Dogs]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119506/|title=Lawn Dogs|date=May 15, 1998|publisher=|accessdate=August 12, 2016|via=IMDb}}</ref>
* ''[[The War Boys]]'', co-written with Bruce E. J. McLeod
* ''Flying Blind'', co-written with [ Bruce E. J. McLeod<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039scyr|via=BBC|title=Flying BruceBlind E.- J. McLeod]BBC}}</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://www.naomiwallace.com/}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080704110130/http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/WALLACE.HTM ''Naomi Wallace'', Broadway Play Publishing Inc Playwright of the Year 1997]
*{{Cite journal| url=http://revcom.us/a/1232/naomirwinterview.htm| title=Naomi Wallace: Looking for Fire| author=Connie Julian| journal=Revolutionary Worker |issue=1232| date=March 14, 2004 }}
* {{Cite journal| url=http://wwwrevcom.brooklynrail.orgus/2008a/051232/theater/the-art-of-countering-despair-naomi-wallacenaomirwinterview.htm| title=TheNaomi Art of Countering DespairWallace: NaomiLooking Wallacefor Fire| author=BettyConnie ShamiehJulian| datejournal=MayRevolutionary Worker 2008|issue=1232| journaldate=TheMarch 14, Brooklyn2004 Rail}}
* {{Cite journal| url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/05/theater/the-art-of-countering-despair-naomi-wallace| title=The Art of Countering Despair: Naomi Wallace| author=Betty Shamieh| date=May 2008| journal=The Brooklyn Rail}}
 
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