Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner (doğum 16 Temmuz 1956), Amerikalı oyun yazarı, roman yazarı ve senarist. 1993'te Angels in America isimli oyunu sayesinde Pulitzer Drama Ödülü'nü aldı, daha sonra oyunu 2003'te HBO'ya uyarladı. 2005 yapımlı film Münih ve 2012 yapımlı film Lincolnun senaryolarını yazdı. Her iki film de büyük beğeni topladı ve En İyi Uyarlanmış Senaryo dalında Oscar Ödülü adaylığı aldı. 2013 yılında Başkan Barack Obama'dan Birleşik Devletler Ulusal Sanat Madalyası aldı. Nisan 2008'de Mark Harris'le New York'ta evlenmiştir.Kushner, 1956'da New York'ta, Yahudi fagot sanatçısı Sylivia (kızlık soy adı Deutscher) ve orkestra şefi olan Yahudi William David Kushner'un oğlu olarak dünyaya geldi. Ebeveynleri, Rus İmparatorluğu ve Galiçya'dan, Yahudilere yönelik yükselen ayrımcılıktan ötürü ABD'ye göçtü.Kushner'in doğumundan bir süre sonra ailesi, çocukluğunu geçireceği Lake Charles, Louisiana'ya taşındı. Lise yıllarına geldiğinde Kushner, politika ile oldukça ilgileniyordu. 1974'te ise Kushner, Columbia Üniversitesi'nde lisans öğrenimine başlamak için New York'a geri döndü.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.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.In Great Eliza's Golden Time, produced in St. Louis, Missouri, Imaginary Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.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.(With Ariel Dorfman) Widows (adapted from a book by Ariel Dorfman), produced in Los Angeles, CA, 1991.Angels in America: 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.(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.Translation with “liberties”—but purportedly “not an adaptation”—of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children (2006)Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 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.Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia, and Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 2000. Includes: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)Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, with Alisa Solomon, Grove, 2003.St. Cecilia or The Power of Music, (opera libretto based on Heinrich von Kleist's eighteenth-century story Die heilige Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik, Eine Legende)