Naomi Wallace's major plays include One Flea Spare, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East and And I And Silence. 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 the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs is available on DVD. Her new film, The War Boys, co-written with Bruce Mcleod, was released in 2010. Wallace is writing new plays for the Public Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare festival and various French theaters. In 2009 One Flea Spare was incorporated into the permanent repertoire of the French National Theater, La Comédie Francaise. It will be produced by La Comédie in 2012. Wallace is the only living American playwright to enter the repertoire. Only two American Playwrights have ever been added to La Comédie's repertoire in 300 years, the other being Tennessee Williams.
