Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner (* July 16, 1956 in New York City ) is an American screenwriter and writer.

Life

Tony Kushner was born on 16 July 1956 in a Jewish family in Manhattan. His parents William Kushner and Sylvia ( German ) Kushner, both musicians, moved shortly after his birth in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana. In 1974 he moved to New York to study at Columbia University. There he made the bachelor's degree in English Literature. Since 1989 he was a guest artist in the Graduate Theatre Program at New York University and at Yale University and Princeton University operates. From 1990 to 1992 he was Playwright -in-residence at the Juilliard School of Drama in New York.

His most famous play is the controversial two -part work Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) and Angels in America: Perestroika (1994 ), for which he received the Tony Award each other under the Pulitzer Prize and for the best play. 2003 emerged after the piece of the television miniseries Angels in America by Mike Nichols, among others, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson. For the script, he got an Emmy.

2004 saw Paris in the original opera by Peter Eötvös its successful premiere. Other stage plays are " Slavs ", " Homebody / Kabul " and " Caroline, or Change ." His work with the long title The Intelligent Homosexual 's Guide to Capitalism and socialism with a Key to the Scriptures was at the Guthrie Theater listed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2009. An Executive Summary Intellectual Homosexual 's Guide was played in 2011 in New York City and in January 2012 at the National Theater in Mannheim, entitled Guide for the intelligent homosexuals.

In 2005 he wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film Munich, and received an Oscar nomination. 2012, the two worked together again in Lincoln.

2003 Kushner married his longtime partner Mark Harris, editor of "Entertainment Weekly".

Awards

Further Reading

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit ), Volume 81, 1994.
  • Harold Bloom, ed: Tony Kushner, New York, Chelsea House, 2005.
  • Per K. Brask, ed: Essays on Kushner 's Angels, Winnipeg, Blizzard Publishing, 1995.
  • James Fisher: The Theater of Tony Kushner, London, Routledge, 2002.
  • James Fisher, ed: Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of His Plays, London, McFarland & Company, 2006.
  • Ricarda Klüßendorf: The Great Work Begins. " Tony Kushner 's Theater for Change in America, Trier, WVT, 2007.
  • Ingar Solty: Tony Kushner's Angels American history, in the argument - Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Vol 47, No. 265, No. 2/2006, p.209 -225 (PDF)
  • Anthony Lioi: The Great Work Begins: Theater as Theurgy in Angels in America, in Cross Currents, Fall 2004, Vol 54, No 3

Tributes

  • Jesse Green: The Intelligent Homosexual 's Guide to Himself. In: New York Magazine, October 17, 2010
  • Ingar Solty: counter-hegemony and political theater. Tony Kushner - a portrait. In: Socialism, Vol 32, No. 5, May 2005 S.53ff
  • Dominic Cavendish: How That Angel Flew Into My Life. In: Telegraph, May 2nd, 2007
  • John Nathan, Tony Kushner, a Political Playwright? In: Prospect Magazine, no. 174, 3rd September 2010
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