Tony Kushner

Anthony Robert Kushner born July 16 1956 is an American author playwright and screenwriter Lauded for his work on stage hes most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013 Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Perestroika He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards the Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony Awards He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich 2005 Lincoln 2012 West Side Story 2021 and The Fabelmans 2022 the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Kushner licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia