Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.
Tony Kushner's other plays include
A Bright Room Called Day;
Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Brown;
The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Corneille;
Slavs!;
Homebody/Kabul;
Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori;
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; and
The Visit, adapted from the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
His translations include S. Y. Ansky's
The Dybbuk; Bertolt Brecht's
The Good Person of Sezuan and
Mother Courage and Her Children; and the libretto for Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister's
Brundibár, a children's opera for which he wrote a curtain-raiser,
But the Giraffe!
He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of
Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's
Munich and
Lincoln.
His books include
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present;
Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.
Among many honours, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
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