Ismail Khalidi’s plays include Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theater), Tennis in Nablus (Alliance), Foot (Teatro Amal), Sabra Falling (Pangea) and Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre). His writing has appeared in American Theatre, Mizna, the Nation and in numerous anthologies. He co-edited Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora (TCG, 2015) and has received commissions from The Public Theatre, Noor Theatre, Pangea World Theater, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Khalidi holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Sept/Oct 2018
Push/Pull
CHARACTERS SABA, early 30s. She is tough and unsentimental. ISSAM, mid-20s. SABA’s brother. SETTING Simultaneously in a Bodega in Brooklyn, Chicago, Detroit, or San Francisco, and an apartment in Sana’a, […]