Tony Kushner

Playwright and Screenwriter. First major work was Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (received a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Evening Standard Award, the New York Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the LAMBDA Liberty Award for Drama). Other works are A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs! Recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writers Award and playwriting and directing fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Received National Medal of the Arts from President Obama in 2013. Recent works includes the screenplay for Lincoln, a film by Stephen Spielberg, which received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay.

Last updated 6/24/2015