Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Angels in America, Slavs!, Homebody/Kabul, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures, and the musical Caroline, or Change with composer Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit and Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan and Mother Courage and Her Children. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America, and for Steven Spielberg's Munich, Lincoln, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans. His books include Wrestling With Zion, co-edited with Alisa Solomon; Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; and The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. Among other honors, Kushner was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.