Born in New York City. Tony Kushner is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, which aired on HBO in 2003. The play, originally written in 1990, is a sweeping indictment of the Reagan era that follows the story of Prior, an AIDS sufferer caught between an ex-boyfriend and a married lover with a mentally disabled wife. The invented characters are counterweighted by a subplot that centers on Roy Cohn, the McCarthy-era lawyer and right-wing bulldog who died of AIDS in 1986. Kushner's other plays include Homebody/Kabul, an eerily prescient play written pre-9/11 that links the modern worlds of London and New York to the fanatical politics of the Taliban, and the forthcoming Caroline or Change, a work set in Civil Rights-era Louisiana. He is also the author of the recently published call to arms, Save Your Democratic Citizen Soul! Rants, Screeds and Other Public Utterances for Midnight in the Republic, a book targeted at young activists. MUNICH (2005) is Kushner's first screen adaptation of someone else's work, George Jonas' book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team. Eric Roth is co-credited with that screenplay by the WGA. Kushner is reportedly working on Paul Webb and John Logan's original screenplay for Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN (scheduled for release in 2009).  Nominated for Achievement in Writing (Adapted Screenplay) 2005: MUNICH 1 nomination