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I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

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Tony Kushner
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 16
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Music Pedagogue
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New York City
Anthony Robert Kushner
Anthony R. Kushner
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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