Playwright

Harvey Fierstein (playwright) 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 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 and Tony nominated Newsies. He received an additional Tony nomination for Best Play for Casa Valentina. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.