Naomi was born in Tokyo and raised in Japan, Indonesia, Holland, and Washington, D.C. Her work has been produced and developed throughout the United States.
Her plays include 17 Reasons (Why); 36 Views; Polaroid Stories; Language of Angels; War of the Worlds (written in collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI Company); Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls; Tattoo Girl; and Skin.
Naomi is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a McKnight Fellowship, an NEA/TCG Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, and a PEN Center USA West Award for Drama. She graduated from National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
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