Tony Kushner

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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 aldı. Nisan 2008'de 'le New York'ta evlenmiştir. İlk yılları 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. 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. 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. 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) 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 Cäcilie 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 Kaynakça Dış bağlantılar Tony Kushner Biyografi Boun Library Kategori:1956 doğumlular Kategori:Amerikalı oyun yazarları Kategori:Amerikalı yazarlar Kategori:Obie Ödülü sahipleri Kategoriulitzer Ödülü alan yazarlar Kategori:Columbia Üniversitesinde öğrenim görenler Kategori:American Academy of Arts and Letters üyeleri Kategori:Yaşayan insanlar Kategori:Yahudi asıllı Amerikalılar Kategori:New York Film Eleştirmenleri Birliği Ödülü sahipleri Kategori:New York Film Eleştirmenleri Birliği En İyi Senaryo Ödülü sahipleri Kategorirama dalında Pulitzer Ödülü sahipleri Kategoriulitzer Ödülü sahipleri Kategori:En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo San Francisco Körfez Bölgesi Sinema Eleştirmenleri Birliği Ödülü sahipleri Kategori:En İyi Uyarlama Senaryo Chicago Sinema Eleştirmenleri Derneği Ödülü sahipleri Kategori:Amerikalı gey yazarlar