Tony Kushner
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Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright, author, and screenwriter.
In 1993, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his role Angels in America, and later adapted it for HBO.
He co-authored the screenplay for Munich, 2005, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln.
Both films were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Medal of Arts.
Early life and education
Kushner was born in Manhattan, the son of Sylvia (née Deutscher), a bassoonist), and William David Kushner, a clarinetist and conductor. His family is Jewish, descended from refugees from Russia and Poland. Kushner's parents moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he spent his childhood in Calcasieu Parish. During high school, Kushner was very involved in policy discussions. Kushner started his undergraduate college studies at Columbia University in 1974, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Medieval Studies. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, graduating 1984. He spent the summers of 1978-1981 in Lake Charles, Canada, directing both early original works (Masque of the Owls and Incidents and Occurrences During the Travels of the Tailor Max) and Shakespeare's (A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest).
In 2003, Kushner earned several honorary degrees from Columbia College in Chicago, as well as an Honorary Doctorate from The New School; in May 2011, an honorary doctorate from SUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and also an Honorary Doctorate from The New School; and in May 2015, an honorary Doctor of Letters from Ithaca College.
Personal life
In April 2003, Kushner and his partner, Mark Harris, held a dedication service, the first same-sex dedication service to be broadcast in The New York Times' Vows column. In summer 2008, Kushner and Harris were legally married at the town hall in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Harris is a writer for Entertainment Weekly and author of Pictures at a Revolution – Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood.
Michael Mayer, a drama director who attended New York University, is close friends with actor Michael Mayer, who he met while studying at NYU.
Career
Angels in America, Kushner's best-known film, was a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York that was later turned into an HBO miniseries for which Kushner wrote the script. Hydriotaphia, Slavs, is one of his other plays. Thinking About the Long-Lasting Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, and The book by the musical Caroline, or Change. In the summer of 2006, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was performed at the Delacorte Theater, starring Meryl Steedp and directed by George C. Wolfe. In addition, Kushner has adapted Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk.
Kushner began writing for film in the early 2000s. In 2005, Steven Spielberg produced and directed Munich, his co-written screenplay. Wrestling with Angels, a documentary film about Kushner, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. Freida Lee Mock produced the film. In April 2011, it was revealed that he was back at Spielberg, assisting in the scripting of an adaptation of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals: Abraham Lincoln's Political Genius. In addition to awards for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Golden Globes and The Oscars, Lincoln's screenplay will continue to receive multiple accolades.
In a 2015 interview actress/producer Viola Davis confessed that she had hired Kushner to write an untitled biopic about Barbara Jordan's life that she had intended to be in.
Kushner appeared on a screenplay adaptation of August Wilson's Fences in 2016, but the resulting film Fences, directed by Denzel Washington, was released in December 2016.
Kushner is best known for frequent rewrites and years of his plays' gestation. Both Angels in America: Perestroika and Homebody/Kabul were heavily revised even before they were announced: Perestroika and Homebody/Kabul were both greatly updated. Kushner has confirmed that the original script version of Angels in America is nearly double the length of the theatrical version. The play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, with a Key to the Scriptures, began as a novel more than a decade before it opened on May 15, 2009.
In 2018, it was announced that Kushner was working on a script for a West Side Story remake starring Spielberg.