Harvey Fierstein

AKA:
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1952-06-06

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.

Crew Roles

Newsies
Musical
Torch Song Trilogy
Theatre Play
Funny Girl
Musical
Tidy Endings
Teleplay
Tidy Endings
Theatre Play
The Sissy Duckling
Writer
Funny Girl
Writer
Torch Song Trilogy
Screenplay
Common Ground
Writer
Hairspray Live!
Teleplay
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
The Wiz Live!
Writer
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Writer
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