Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

A SANDERS & MOCK/ AMERICAN FILM FOUNDATION PRODUCTION
“WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: PLAYWRIGHT TONY KUSHNER” A FILM BY FREIDA LEE MOCK
COMPOSER JEANINE TESORI EDITOR ANNE STEIN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER BRITTANY SANDERS
PHOTOGRAPHED BY BESTOR CRAM, DON LENZER, EDDIE MARRITZ, CHRIS PAUL AND TERRY SANDERS
SPECIAL THANKS TO STEFAN HAGEN AND TODD SHOTZ
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TERRY SANDERS
WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY FREIDA LEE MOCK
MAJOR FUNDING MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, HELEN AND PETER BING AND MORGAN B. LEE

Wrestling With Angels is a feature documentary film about the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner. It tells the story about the evolution of an artist and of how Kushner, raised in the Deep South in Lake Charles, Louisiana, would become an outspoken activist, a compassionate spokesperson for outsiders, and one of today’s most entertaining and important playwrights. At its core the film explores the mystery of creativity, and its source, and Kushner’s compelling plays that are set against the morral and political concerns of our times. Directed by Freida Lee Mock, who also wrote and directed the Academy Award®-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision