Ismail Khalidi
Ismail Khalidi is a playwright, director and screenwriter. 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), Guernica, Gaza (Ashtar Theatre) and The Magic Bullet (Lub Dub).
He has adapted two novels for the stage with Naomi Wallace: Ghassan Knafani's (Finborough Theatre) and Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer (Actors Theatre of Louisville). His most recent collaboration with Wallace, Guernica, Gaza, premiered at Ashtar Theater in Palestine in 2024, and is set for its London premiere at the Finborough Theatre in 2026.
Khalidi's plays have been published in numerous anthologies, including the upcoming volume of his work from Bloomsbury (2025) entitled , and (TCG, 2015), which he also co-edited. His writing has appeared in , , , The Dramatist,, , and .
Khalidi holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and previously been an artist-in-residence at Teatro Amal (Chile), Mizna, and Boston University's Center on Forced Displacement. He is currently a Directing Fellow at large at Pangea World Theater.