Basil Wallace (born January 15, 1951) is a Jamaican-American actor, playwright, theatre director, and acting teacher.
Early in Wallace's career, he became involved with La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Manhattan's East Village.
[3] The Jarboro Company then took those one-acts (How Do You Do?, A Minor Scene, Dialect Determinism, and It Has No Choice, along with Bullins' Clara's Old Man and Richard Wesley's Black Terror) on tour to Italy.
[7] He returned to La MaMa in 1987 to direct a work-in-progress reading of White's Tres Cepas (The Love Songs for China).
He was one of the founding members and served as artistic director for the first year of the Caribbean American Repertory Theatre.