Tony Kushner(16 Temmuz 1956) Angels in America ile Pulitzer ödülünü kazanan,Amerikan çağdaş oyun yazarıdır.Tony Kushner ayrıca Eric Roth la beraber Münih(2005)(yönetmen, Steven Spielberg)`in senaristidir.
Manhattan`da doğmuştur;ama yahudi ve müzik eğitimi almış olan ebeveynleri onun doğumundan kısa süre sonra Lake Charles, Louisiana ya taşınmıştır.Kushner 1974`te New York`a taşınmıştır ve eğitimini Columbia Üniversitesinde sürdürmüştür.Yönetmenlik eğitimini New York Üniversitesinde almıştır ve 1984 te mezun olmuştur.
Nisan 2003`te Tony Kushner ve Mark Harris New York ta evlilik seramonisiyle birlikteliklerini pekiştirmişlerdir.
Yazarın Oyunları
- ``The Age of Assassins,`` New York, Newfoundland Theatre, 1982.
- ``La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse,`` New York, Ohio Theatre, 1983.
- ``The Umbrella Oracle,`` Martha`s Vineyard, The Yard, Inc..
- ``Last Gasp at the Cataract,`` Martha`s Vineyard, The Yard, Inc., 1984.
- ``Yes, Yes, No, No: The Solace-of-Solstice, Apogee/Perigee, Bestial/Celestial Holiday Show,`` produced in St. Louis, Missouri, Imaginary Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, 1985, published in ``Plays in Process,`` 1987.
- ``Stella`` (Johann Wolfgang von oyunundan uyarlandı Goethe), New York`ta yazıldı, 1987.
- ``A Bright Room Called Day,`` produced in New York, Theatre 22, 22 April 1985; San Francisco, Eureka Theatre, October 1987; London, Bush Theatre, 1988), Broadway Play Publishing, 1991.
- ``The Heavenly Theatre,`` produced at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1986.
- ``In Great Eliza`s Golden Time,`` produced in St. Louis, Missouri, Imaginary Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.
- ``Hydriotaphia``, produced in New York City, 1987 (based on the life on Sir Thomas Browne)
- ``The Illusion`` (adapted from Pierre Corneille`s play L`Illusion comique; produced in New York City, 1988, revised version produced in Hartford, CT, 1990), Broadway Play Publishing, 1991.
- ``In That Day (Lives of the Prophets),`` New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1989.
- (With Ariel Dorfman) ``Widows`` (adapted from a book by Ariel Dorfman), produced in Los Angeles, CA, 1991.
- ``A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches`` (produced in San Francisco, 1991), Hern, 1992.
- ``Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part Two: Perestroika,`` produced in New York City, 1992.
- ``Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (includes both parts)``, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1995.
- ``Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness``, Theatre Communications Group, 1995.
- ``Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play That`s Nearly Twenty Minutes Long,`` Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville, March 1996.
- ``A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds`` (adapted from Joachim Neugroschel`s transation of the original play by S. Ansky; produced in New York City at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, 1997), Theatre Communications Group, 1997.
- ``The Good Person of Szechuan`` (uyarlama Bertolt Brecht), Arcade, 1997.
- (With Eric Bogosian and others) ``Love`s Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets``, Morrow, 1998.
- ``Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence, in Love`s Fire,`` Minneapolis, Guthrie Theater Lab, 7 January 1998; New York: Joseph Papp Public Theater, 19 June 1998.
- ``Henry Box Brown, or the Mirror of Slavery``, Royal National Theare`da sergilendi, London, 1998.
- ``Homebody/Kabul,`` first performed in New York City, 19 December 2001.
- ``Caroline, or Change`` (musical), the Joseph Papp Public Theater`da ilk defa sergilendi, 2002.
- (Director)Ellen McLaughlin, ``Helen,`` produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, 2002.
- ``Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy,`` 2003.
- Translation with “liberties”-but purportedly “not an adaptation”-of Brecht`s ``Mother Courage and Her Children`` (2006){{cite news
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Yazarın Kitapları
- ``A Meditation from Angels in America,`` HarperSan Francisco, 1994.
- ``Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer``, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1995.
- Howard Cruse, ``Stuck Rubber Baby``, introduction by Kushner (New York: Paradox Press, 1995).
- David B. Feinberg, ``Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone,`` introduction by Kushner (New York: Penguin, 1995).
- David Wojnarowicz, ``The Waterfront Journals,`` edited by Amy Scholder, introduction by Kushner (New York: Grove, 1996).
- "Three Screeds from Key West: For Larry Kramer," in ``We Must Love One Another or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer,`` edited by Lawrence D. Mass (New York: St. Martin`s Press, 1997), pp. 191-199.
- Moises Kaufman, ``Gross Indecency,`` afterword by Kushner (New York: Vintage, 1997), pp. 135-143.
- ``Plays by Tony Kushner`` (New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1999). Includes:
- ``A Bright Room called Day``
- ``The Illusion``
- ``Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness``
- ``Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia, and Other Plays,`` Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 2000. Includes:
- ``Reverse transcription``
- ``Hydriotaphia: or the Death of Dr. Browne``, (adaptation of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (A fictitious, imaginary account of Sir Thomas Browne`s character not based upon fact)
- ``G. David Schine in Hell``
- ``Notes on Akiba``
- ``Terminating``
- ``East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis``
- ``Brundibar``, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.
- ``The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present``, 2003
- ``Save Your Democratic Soul!: Rants, Screeds, and Other Public Utterances``
- ``Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,`` with Alisa Solomon, Grove, 2003.
Diğer Çalışmaları
- ``La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse``, (opera) 1983
- ``St. Cecilia or The Power of Music,`` (opera libretto based on Heinrich von Kleist`s eighteenth-century story ``Die heilige Cí¤cilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik, Eine Legende``)
- ``Caroline or Change,`` (Müzikal)
- ``Brundibar,`` (an opera in collaboration with Maurice Sendak)
- ``Munich``, Steven Spielberg yönetmenliğinde (2005)
Kazandığı Ödüller
- Emmy Award
- Pulitzer Prize Drama dalında
- Two Tony Awards
- Evening Standard Award
- OBIE
- New York Drama Critics Circle Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
- Whiting Writers Fellowship
- Lila Wallace/Reader`s Digest Fellowship
- National Foundation of Jewish Culture, Cultural Achievement award
- Honorary Doctor of Letters from Pace University on May 25th, 2004
- Honorary Degree from Brandeis University mayıs 21, 2006