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In 2015, Riverside Theatres produced Shellshock and in 2016 Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Company co-produced The Literati, Fleming's adaptation of Molière's Les Femmes Savantes. 2018 saw Dresden at KXT in Sydney, and The Misanthrope in Bell Shakespeare Company's co-production with Griffin Theatre Company; and in 2019, Bell Shakespeare Company toured his translation of The Miser.

Among his works for television, Fleming wrote Part One of the history of Australian cinema, The Celluloid Heroes for ABC TV. Fleming's history of the Common Law, Barbarism to Verdict, was written for ABC/BBC television, and published internationally by HarperCollins with a foreword by John Mortimer QC. Other publications include Fleming's histories: The Crest of the Wave (Allen & Unwin), The Vision Splendid and All that Brothers Should Be (Beaver Press). His Paris journal was published by Halstead Press in Paris Studio. He is the author of Stage Lines – Writing Scripts for the Theatre (Phoenix Education) and A Molière Anthology (Five Senses Education).

In 2006, Fleming was made Writer-in-Residence by the Dr Robert and Lina Thyll-Dur Foundation at La Casa Zia Lina, Elba in Italy, where he translated Molière's Tartuffe (titled as The Hypocrite) from the original French into English. In 2007 he was awarded the Writer's Residency at Arthur Boyd's Bundanon, where he wrote Origin, a play on the subject of Charles Darwin, commissioned by the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was also awarded the Tasmanian Writers' Centre Residency in 2008, where he wrote His Mother's Voice. In 2011, Fleming was commissioned by the Bell Shakespeare Company to translate Molière's The School for Wives and by Ensemble Studio Theatre and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, to write Soldier of the Mind, a play about Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish neuroscientist.

Other plays include adaptations of Émile Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames (The Department Store) and D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, 27 August 2003.

In 1989, the Sydney Theatre Company produced Harold in Italy at the Sydney Opera House; it was later staged by the Teatr Studyjny in Lodz Poland. The Deep Blue was staged at The Bush, London, in 1991 and the following year The Ensemble Rep Studios produced The Nonsense Boy. Fleming has twice been awarded the Nancy Keesing Writer's Fellowship to the Cité internationale des arts in Paris (1993, 1998), where he wrote The Starry Messenger and Burnt Piano (in French Le piano brulé). The latter was staged around Australia and went on to win the New York New Dramatists' Award in the year 2000 and opened in New York City in March 2001. It was short-listed for various awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and won the Banff PlayRites Residency, Canada. The playwright Harold Pinter was an admirer of Fleming's work, particularly the portrait of Samuel Beckett in Burnt Piano. Pinter described Fleming as a writer "of authority and distinction".

Fleming's first play, Hammer, was staged at the Festival of Sydney in 1981 and was followed by Indian Summer in 1982. In 1983, in the Sydney Opera House, Sir Robert Helpmann starred for the Sydney Theatre Company in the world premiere of Fleming's play The Cobra. Helpmann portrayed the elderly Lord Alfred Douglas, reflecting bitterly on his notorious youthful relationship with Oscar Wilde.

Justin Fleming (born 3 January 1953) is an Australian playwright and author. He has written for theatre, music theatre, opera, television and cinema and his works have been produced and published in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Poland and France. Fleming has been a barrister and vice president of the Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1953, Justin Fleming attended high school at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, where he was taught English Literature by Joseph Castley and Charles MacDonald, S.J., and the classics by Charles Fraser, S.J. Near contemporaries at the college included writers Gerard Windsor and Nick Enright and composer Stewart D'Arrietta. He was taught music by Lorraine Henderson, Julienne Horn and Tessa Birnie. Fleming later studied at the Ensemble Theatre under Hayes Gordon and Zika Nester and has degrees in Law from Dublin University and Sydney University, and a Master of Laws from University College London. He was Associate to District Court Judge John Lincoln from 1974 until 1979 and for some years a barrister in Dublin and Sydney, before devoting himself full-time to writing. He is married to author and academic, Fae Brauer.