Ismail Khalidi (writer)

Ismail Khalidi (writer)

Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian American playwright, poet, and actor, best known for the plays Tennis in Nablus (2010) and Truth Serum Blues (2005). Tennis in Nablus received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award and the Quest for Peace Playwriting Award.