Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner (born July 1956) is a gay Jewish socialist American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

He was born in Manhattan and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and studied directing at New York University's Graduate School.

Works

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Angels in America: Perestroika
Hydrotaphia
A Bright Room Called Day
Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness
Henry Box Brown or the Mirror of Slavery
St. Cecilia or The Power of Music
Caroline or Change
Homebody/Kabul
Brundibar
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present
Save Your Democratic Soul!: Rants, Screeds, and Other Public Utterances