Tony Kushner: Puffin Prize Acceptance Speech

2,101 views · Published 10 January 2012 · 20:22 · Indexed 11 October 2026

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On December 5 at its gala dinner, The Nation Institute awarded playwright and screenwriter (and Nation editorial board member) Tony Kushner its annual $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship "for a lifetime of artistic work giving voice to the marginalized, and his outspoken criticism of social injustice."

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