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Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Kushner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Venice scenes will take place in New Orleans, with the opening scene in particular taking place on Bourbon Street. The Cyprus scenes will take place on an unidentified island resembling Cuba or Puerto Rico. The film will be set during and immediately following the Spanish-American War. Garb will be turn of the century and military. No scenes or acts will be cut and there will be only three changes to the dialogue: In the second to last line, Lodovico will say "States" instead of "state". In Act 4, Scene 2, "Mauritania" will become "The Philippines" and "votaress" becomes "nun". Iago, Roderigo, Emilia, Montana, and Bianca will use American accents. Desdemona, Brabantio, Gratiano, Cassio, and Lodovico will use British accents. Othello and The Duke of Venice will be dealer's choice
