06/06/1952
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA:
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.
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Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019) Musical |
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Funny Girl (2018) Musical |
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Funny Girl (2018) Writer |
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Newsies (2017) Musical |
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Hairspray Live! (2016) Teleplay |
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The Wiz Live! (2015) Writer |
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Common Ground (2000) Writer |
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The Sissy Duckling (1999) Writer |
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Torch Song Trilogy (1988) Screenplay |
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Torch Song Trilogy (1988) Theatre Play |
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Tidy Endings (1988) Theatre Play |
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Tidy Endings (1988) Teleplay |