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Naomi Wallace (United States) has had work produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. Her major plays include One Flea Spare, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, The Inland Sea, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Birdy (an adaptation of William Wharton's novel) and The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East. Her work has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, and an Obie. She is also a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs is available on DVD. She is presently working on a commission for Actor's Theatre of Louisville and Clean Break of London. Her new play Things of Dry Hours will receive its New York premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in June 2008. Her new film, The War Boys, based on her play of the same title, and co-written with Bruce Mcleod, will be out in 2008.

September 05, 2008
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