Anthony Robert Kushner was born on July 16,1956 and is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter.
22 Facts About Tony Kushner
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Tony Kushner received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.
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Tony Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika.
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Tony Kushner received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Tony Kushner then adapted the acclaimed 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.
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Tony Kushner has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich, Lincoln, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans.
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Tony Kushner was born in Manhattan, the son of Sylvia, a bassoonist, and William David Tony Kushner, a clarinetist and conductor.
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Tony Kushner's family is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Russia and Poland.
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Shortly after his birth, Tony Kushner's parents moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, the seat of Calcasieu Parish where he spent his childhood.
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In 1974, Tony Kushner moved back to New York to begin his undergraduate college education at Columbia University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Medieval Studies in 1978.
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Tony Kushner attended the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, graduating in 1984.
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Tony Kushner has received several honorary degrees: in 2003 from Columbia College Chicago, in 2006 an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University, in 2008 an honorary Doctor of Letters from SUNY Purchase College, in May 2011 an honorary doctorate from CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and an Honorary Doctorate from The New School, and in May 2015, an honorary Doctor of Letters from Ithaca College.
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Tony Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into an HBO miniseries for which Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay.
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In January 2006, a documentary feature about Tony Kushner entitled Wrestling with Angels debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
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In 2016, Tony Kushner worked on a screenplay version of August Wilson's play Fences; the resulting film Fences, directed by Denzel Washington, was released in December 2016.
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Tony Kushner is famous for frequent revisions and years-long gestations of his plays.
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Tony Kushner has admitted that the original script version of Angels in America: Perestroika is nearly double the length of the theatrical version.
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Tony Kushner's newest completed work, 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 finally opened on May 15,2009.
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In 2018, it was announced that Tony Kushner was working on a script of a remake of West Side Story for Spielberg to direct.
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In 2022, Tony Kushner collaborated again with Spielberg on The Fabelmans, a fictionalized account of Spielberg's childhood.
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Tony Kushner said at the time that his quotes were "grossly mischaracterized".
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Tony Kushner has received backlash from family members due to his political views of Israel.