Tony Kushner

Moved to New York City to attend college

Worked as a switchboard operator at the United Nations Plaza Hotel

First professional production as a playwright, "Yes Yes No No: The Solace-of-Solstice, Apogee/Perigee, Bestial/Celestial Holiday Show" at the Imaginary Theatre Company in St. Louis

Adapted "Stella," from the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; produced in New York City

Play "A Bright Room Called Day" premiered in San Francisco