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| 3 | Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956 in New York City) is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the [[UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize Pulitzer Prize-winning]] ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' and its subsequent [[Series/AngelsInAmerica miniseries adaptation]], as well as various other plays and screen works. |
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| 5 | Born in Manhattan, Kushner's family moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he spent most of his childhood, becoming active in local politics as a high schooler. He moved back to New York to attend Columbia University, and later began writing and directing plays during graduate school. |
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| 7 | Kushner was given the National Medal of Arts by UsefulNotes/BarackObama in 2013. He has been married to film critic and scholar Mark Harris since 2008. |
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| 9 | !!Works written by Tony Kusher include: |
| 10 | * ''A Bright Room Called Day'' (1985) |
| 11 | * ''Hydriotaphia'' (1987) |
| 12 | * ''The Illusion'' (1991) |
| 13 | * ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' (1992) - Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Play |
| 14 | * ''Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness'' (1994) |
| 15 | * ''A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds'' (1997) |
| 16 | * ''Henry Box Brown, or the Mirror of Slavery'' (1998) |
| 17 | * ''Homebody/Kabul'' (2001) |
| 18 | * ''Caroline, or Change'' (2002) - Olivier Award for Best Musical |
| 19 | * ''Film/{{Munich}}'' (2005) - Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay |
| 20 | * ''Brundibár'' (2005) (children's book) |
| 21 | * ''The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures'' (2009) |
| 22 | * ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' (2012) - Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay |
| 23 | * ''Film/{{West Side Story|2021}}'' (2021) |
| 24 | * ''Film/TheFabelmans'' (2022) - Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay |
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