Authors

Lisa Kron

Lisa Kron is the author of the book and lyrics to the musical Fun Home, and the plays Well and 2.5 Minute Ride, among others. She is a founding member of the award-winning theater group The Five Lesbian Brothers.

2.5 Minute Ride & 101 Humiliating Stories
Well
In the Wake

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.

Tony Kushner's other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Corneille; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures; and The Visit, adapted from the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

His translations include S. Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk; Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the libretto for Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister's Brundibár, a children's opera for which he wrote a curtain-raiser, But the Giraffe!

He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich and Lincoln.

His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.

Among many honours, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

Tony Kushner
A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural
A Bright Room Called Day
The Illusion
Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
Homebody/Kabul
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Widows
Angels in America: Parts One & Two
Lincoln
Angels in America

Andrew Kushnir

Andrew Kushnir is a playwright, actor, and director based in Toronto. He is the artistic director of Project: Humanity (www.projecthumanity.ca), a leading developer of Verbatim Theatre. His produced plays include The Middle Place (Canadian national tour, Toronto Theatre Critics Award), Small Axe, Wormwood (as playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre), and Freedom Singer (co-created with Khari Wendell McClelland, two Canadian national tours). He is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee, a graduate of the University of Alberta, and a Loran Scholar.

The Gay Heritage Project

Elizabeth Kuti

Elizabeth Kuti is a playwright and lecturer in drama. Her play The Sugar Wife won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Her plays include: Fishskin Trousers (Finborough Theatre, 2013; revived at Park Theatre, London, 2017); The Six-Days World (Finborough Theatre, London, 2007); and The Sugar Wife (Rough Magic, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2005; Soho Theatre, London, 2006; Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2024).

She teaches drama and playwriting at the University of Essex; and is a long-term collaborator with director Robert Price, with whom she founded Lubkinfinds Theatre.

Elizabeth Kuti
The Six-Days World
The Sugar Wife
Fishskin Trousers
Enter A Gentleman
Time Spent on Trains
The Sugar Wife