Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner's Angels in America is one of the most important literary works about the gay and lesbian community. Angels in America held a long run on Broadway and was adapted for television by HBO.

Kushner earned his BA from Columbia University. In the early 1980s, he founded a theater group and began writing and producing plays. In the 1990s, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Angels in America won two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, Evening Standard Award, two Olivier Award Nominations, New York Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and LAMBDA Liberty Award for Drama. Like most of his work, Angels in America focused upon the moral responsibilities of people in politically repressive times.

Kushner has also written A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!, adaptations of Goethe's Stella, Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. Kushner won fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.