This revised version of A Bright Room Called Day premiered at The Public Theater in New York in October 2019 in a production directed by Oskar Eustis. The revision introduces a new character who acts as a stand-in for Kushner himself, engaging with and critiquing his earlier creation while extending the parallels between Hitler’s Germany and Reagan’s America to the new world order of President Trump. Kushner’s other plays include Angels in America, Slavs!, Homebody/Kabul, the musical Caroline, or Change and the opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (both with composer Jeanine Tesori). He has adapted and translated The Illusion, The Dybbuk, The Good Person of Szechwan, and Mother Courage and Her Children as well as the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibar by Hans Krasa. Angels in America was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Kushner won an Emmy Award for adapting Angels in America into an HBO miniseries, directed by Mike Nichols and featuring a star-studded cast that included Meryl Streep and Al Pacino. Kushner is a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Munich (2005, directed by Steven Spielberg) and Lincoln (2012, directed by Steven Spielberg). His screenplay adaptation of Arthur Laurents’ book for West Side Story will hit movie theaters in 2020 (also directed by Spielberg). Kushner received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a playwright in mid-career, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, among others.