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Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Writer · Born 1956-07-16 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awar…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Hacks (2021) — Tony Kushner
  2. Spielberg (2017) — Self
  3. Angels in America (2003) — Rabbi on Bench #1 (uncredited)
  4. Outrage (2009) — Self
  5. Wilde Salomé (2013) — Self
  6. Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019) — Self
  7. Arthur Miller: Writer (2017) — Self
  8. Finding Your Roots (2012) — Self
  9. Golden Globe Awards (1944) — Self - Nominee
  10. Something's Coming: West Side Story (2021) — Self
  11. The Fabelmans: A Family in Film (2023) — Self
  12. Point of View (1988) — Self
  13. The Stories of West Side Story (2022) — Self
  14. Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016) — Self
  15. The Royal Road (2015) — (archive sound)
  16. American Playhouse (1982) — Self
  17. Theater of War (2008) — Self
  18. Lincoln: An American Journey (2013) — Self
  19. Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America (1995) — Self - Playwright, "Angels in America"
  20. Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006) — Self
  21. In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway (1993)
  22. The Jewish Americans (2008) — Self
  23. Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006) — Self
  24. Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary — Self