In 2006, Fleming was made Writer-in-Residence by the Dr Robert and Lina Thyll-Dur Foundation at La Casa Zia Lina, Elba in Italy, where he translated Molière's "Tartuffe" (titled as "The Hypocrite") from the original French into English. In 2007 he was awarded the Writer's Residency at Arthur Boyd's Bundanon, where he wrote "Origin", a play on the subject of Charles Darwin, commissioned by the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was also awarded the Tasmanian Writers' Centre Residency in 2008, where he wrote "His Mother's Voice". In 2011, Fleming was commissioned by the Bell Shakespeare Company to translate Molière's "The School for Wives" and by Ensemble Studio Theatre and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, to write "Soldier of the Mind", a play about Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish neuroscientist.