 TONY KUSHNER's plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, Angels In America, Parts One and Two, Slavs!, and most recently, Homebody/Kabul, a new version of which will open at Steppenwolf Theater and the Mark Taper Forum in the summer and fall of 2003, directed by Frank Galati. His adaptations include Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Goethe's Stella. A collection of his essays, Thinking About The Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, was published in 1997 by TCG. A new volume of essays, Save Your the Democratic Citizen Soul!, will be published in 2003 by The New Press. Caroline, or Change, a musical he is writing with composer Jeanine Tesori, will open in the fall of 2003 at The New York Shakespeare Festival, directed by George C. Wolfe. Mr. Kushner is collaborating with Maurice Sendak on an American version of the children's opera, Brundibar, to premier in the spring of 2003 at Chicago Opera Theater; his text for a picture book based on the opera, illustrated by Sendak, will be published by Hyperion; in addition he has written a survey of Sendak's recent illustrations and stage designs, which will be published this October by Abrams Books. In the fall of 2003, HBO will present a 6-hour film version of Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols. Homebody/Kabul is being adapted for film by Mira Nair.
Mr. Kushner's work has been produced at theaters around the United States and in over thirty countries around the world. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including, for Angels In America, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play, two Drama Desk Awards, and London's Evening Standard Award; two Obie Awards for best play for Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; and two Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner awards for Angels and Homebody/Kabul. In addition, he is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Cultural Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Mid-Career Playwright, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and the Princess Grace Statuette, among other honors. Mr. Kushner was born in 1956. He has a BA from Columbia College (in New York) and a MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts Theatre Program. (Photo credit: Gloria Wegener) |
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