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Alumni in the News: June 12, 2023
Tony Kushner ’78 was featured in the May 25 New York Times article “How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards.” Kushner, known for the Pulitzer-winning play Angels in America, “is a fiery supporter of the [Writer’s Guild of America] strike,” the Times writes, “who freely denounces the ‘unconscionable greed’ of studio bosses and who showed up on a picket line as soon as it began.”
On May 15 it was announced that James Shapiro ’77, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature, was awarded a Spring 2024 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. Shapiro will spend a semester at the American Academy completing his upcoming book Playbook: The Creation and Demise of a Theater for All Americans, which explores the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre in the 1930s.
In February, Emma Buzbee ’21, an eighth-grade humanities teacher at Lafayette Middle School in Brooklyn, was named a 2023 Success Academy Excellence Award winner. The Excellence Awards honor school-based staff who demonstrate a commitment to educational equity for children and families.
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