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Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner's plays include A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY; THE ILLUSION, freely adapted from Corneille; ANGELS IN AMERICA, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and Part Two: PERESTROIKA; and adaptations of Goethe's STELLA, Brecht's THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN, and Ansky's THE DYBBUK.
His work has been produced at theaters around the United States, including New York Theatre Workshop, the New York Shakespeare Festival, The Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory, Steppenwolf Theater, and Hartford Stage; on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater; at the Royal National Theatre in London, The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, The Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and in over thirty countries around the world.
ANGELS IN AMERICA has been awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1993 and 1994 Tony Awards for Best Play, the 1993 and 1994 Drama Desk Awards, the 1992 Evening Standard Award, two Olivier Award nominations, and the 1993 New York Drama Critics Circle Award, among others. Mr Kushner is the recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a 1990 Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, and an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. Mr Kushner was born in Manhattan and grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He has a B A from Columbia University and an M F A in Directing from N Y U, where he studied with Carl Weber. He lives in Manhattan.
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