Ismail Khalidi with Naomi Wallace
About this Event
About the Authors:
Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian American playwright and director. His plays include Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theatre), Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theater), Foot (Teatro Amal), Sabra Falling (Pangea World Theater), Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre), and The Magic Bullet (co-writer, Lub Dub).
Khalidi has also written three plays with Naomi Wallace, adapting Ghassan Kanafani's (Finborough Theatre) and Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer (Actors Theatre of Louisville), as well as the original one-act, Visions from the Center of the Earth (Ashtar Theatre). His plays have been published in numerous anthologies, including Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora (TCG), which he co-edited with Wallace. Khalidi holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has been a past artist-in-residence at Teatro Amal (Chile), Mizna, and Boston University's Center on Forced Displacement. He is currently a Directing Fellow at Pangea World Theater.
Naomi Wallace’s plays have been produced in the United States, the U.K., Europe and the Middle East. Awards include the MacArthur Award, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the inaugural Windham Campbell prize for drama. In 2025 Wallace was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. Wallace is currently writing the book for the John Mellencamp musical Jack and Diane, which will premiere at Ogunquit Theater in 2026.
A special thanks to the co-sponsors of this event Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice, Committee for Peace in the Middle East and Kentucky Poor Peoples Campaign. You can learn more by emailing [email protected]
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