Night is a Room (TCG Edition)

World premiere in the fall of 2015 at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway, New York)As a renowned playwright known for complex and politically-charged plays, Wallace's work will appeal to theatre departments.Naomi Wallace is part of Signature's "Residency One" program, which offers an established playwright complete artistic freedom in the development of new work for one year at Signature Theatre.Wallace has a 20+ year career as a prolific and award-winning playwright.She has received two consecutive Susan Smith Blackburn prizes for In the Heart of America in 1995 and One Flea Spare in 1996.Her play One Flea Spare earned the Obie Award for Best Play in 1997.She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1999.She was given a National Endowment for the Arts development grant for her work.In 2009, Wallace's One Flea Spare was incorporated into the permanent répertoire of the French National Theatre. Only two American playwrights have ever been added to La Comédie's repertoire in 300 years: the other being Tennessee Williams.In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world.Wallace received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015.