Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan · Arts & Literature
Tony Award — Best Play
1953, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
United States
Robert Schenkkan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Tony Award — Best Play
Robert Schenkkan is an American playwright and screenwriter who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle and the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play for All the Way, about Lyndon B. Johnson and the Civil Rights Act. He has partial Jewish ancestry: his father came from a Dutch-Jewish family with Ashkenazi and Sephardi roots, though that branch is reported to have converted to Catholicism and he was not raised Jewish.
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Tony Award — Best Play
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play
