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Tony Kushner

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among his stage work, he is most known for Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, as well as its subsequent acclaimed HBOminiseries of the same name. At the turn of the 21st century, he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.[1] Kushner is among the few playwrights in history nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.

Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted the acclaimed 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.

In 2003, he wrote the lyrics and book to the musicalCaroline, or

Professor Tony Kushner

Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Jewish migration history
  • Refugee studies
  • Representation and memory of the Holocaust
  • Bystander studies
  • Heritage, history and memory

Current research

I am completing a cultural history of Jacob Harris, an eighteenth century Jewish triple murderer, which will be completed by 2023 as a monograph. I am also working on a study of co-presents to the Holocaust with Dr Aimee Bunting.

Research projects

Publications

Teaching

  • Migration and identity in modern Britain
  • Refugee history
  • Holocaust studies
  • Jewish history and culture

Biography

I am a long standing member of the History Department and Parkes Institute working in the wide field of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, including comparative migration and refugee studies; history, memory and heritage; and the history of racisms. My ongoing project is a study of pedlars, crime and Jewish identity from the eighteenth to the twenty first centuries.

Tony Kushner

Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
4.27 avg rating — 24,649 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions
Perestroika (Angels in America, #2)
4.24 avg rating — 22,711 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions
Angels in America
4.29 avg rating — 22,378 ratings — published 1995
A Bright Room Called Day
3.97 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions
Homebody/Kabul
3.86 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions
Brundibar
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3.91 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions
Caroline, or Change
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4.09 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions
The Illusion
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3.89 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
Lincoln
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4.39 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Pr

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