Naomi Wallace

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Naomi Wallace is a poet and playwright 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, and the one act play The Retreating World. Her stage adaption of Willam Wharton's novel Birdy opened on the West End in London in 1997. Her book of poetry To Dance on a Stony Field was published in the United Kingdom in 1995. She was a 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation 'genious' Fellowship. Her film 'Lawn Dogs', starring Misha Barton and Sam Rockwell, has won numerous awards. Her new play, "Things of Dry Hours" was produced by the Pittsburgh Public in 2004, and will be produced at New York Theatre Workshop in 2007. She has been commissioned by the Royal National Theatre of London and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. She is a collector of Cuban art and has a number of Guinever Smith paintings. She is also an avid campaigner against racism, homophobia, war and the illegal occupation of Palestine. Naomi is presently working on a trilogy of plays about the Middle East. She is adapting, with Bruce Mcleod, her play "In the Heart of America" for a feature film which will be directed by Sonja de Vries.

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