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Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner was born in Manhattan and grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and later did postgraduate work at New York University. In the early 1980s, he founded a theater group and began writing and producing plays.

In the early 1990s, he scored a monster hit with the epic, seven-hour, two-part Broadway blockbuster Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, which earned Kushner a plethora of commendations—including the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, and two Drama Desk Awards—and was subsequently adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe awards-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. Kushner has also written A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!, as well as several adaptations including Goethe's Stella, Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. He most recently co-wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film, Munich.