Editor‘s note: Tony Kushner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a gay activist, has written a number of plays, including Angels in America, Part 1: The Millennium, Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika, Slavs!: Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness and Homebody/Kabul. In addition, Kushner has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the NEA, the Whiting Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received a Lila Wallace/Reader‘s Digest Fellowship and a medal for Cultural Achievement from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Angels in America is being made into a HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. Kushner‘s new play, Caroline or Change, will open on Broadway in September. Kushner was interviewed by Joe Sims.