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ALUMNI PROFILE

Kushner to Speak at Class Day

PHOTO: STEPHEN GOLDBLATT/HBO

Tony Kushner ’78, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America and the current Broadway musical Caroline, or Change, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Class Day ceremony on May 18.

Kushner, who majored in English literature, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for Angels in America, which focuses on sexual, social and political issues relating to the AIDS crisis during the Reagan era. The seven-hour Broadway production also received two Tony Awards, the Evening Standard Award, the New York Critics Circle Award, two Olivier Award nominations and the LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama. Last year, it was produced as a film for HBO, and that production received five Golden Globe awards, including best mini-series or television movie.

Caroline, or Change, Kushner’s first musical, is set in Louisiana, where Kushner was raised, and takes place in 1963, early in the civil rights movement. It centers on the relationship between an African-American maid and the Jewish family that employs her, especially the family’s 8-year-old son, Noah.

Alex Sachare ’71

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