ABSTRACT
American playwright Tony Kushner is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play,
Angels in America
, and of the screenplay for the award-winning television version directed by Mike Nichols. Kushner’s other stage works include
The Dybbuk
,
Homebody/Kabul
, and, with composer Jeanine Tesori,
Caroline, or Change
. What follows is compiled from two separate interviews: one conducted in December of 2003, shortly before the HBO broadcast of
Angels in America
; the other conducted in January of 2004, the day after
Angels
won six Golden Globe awards.