Tony Kushner

Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for his play *Angels in America*, which received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play. In the early 2000s, he gained recognition for his film collaborations with director Steven Spielberg. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2013.

Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with *Angels in America: Millennium Approaches* and *Angels in America: Perestroika*. The play earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.

In 2003, Kushner wrote the lyrics and book for the musical *Caroline, or Change*, earning Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of *Caroline, or Change* earned him a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making him one of the few playwrights in history to be nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

Kushner has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films *Munich* (2005), *Lincoln* (2012), *West Side Story* (2021), and *The Fabelmans* (2022). *Munich* and *Lincoln* earned him Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations.