Gary Sunshine
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Gary Sunshine is an American playwright and television writer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long Island, where his father was a self-employed plastic slipcover cutter and his mother was a computer programmer.
Sunshine started writing plays a year after graduating from Princeton University, where he majored in English with a concentration in Theater. He received an MFA from NYU's Dramatic Writing Program. In 2005, he received the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. His work has been published in The Best American Short Plays of 2001 and Monologues for Men by Men.
In December 2004, Sunshine was in residence at the Royal National Theatre Studio in London. He is a NYTW Usual Suspect and a member of the MCC Playwrights Coalition. He wrote, co-created, and co-produced the documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You (Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival; Audience Award, Lake Placid Film Festival; Crystal Award, Heartland Film Festival; HBO Audience Award for Top Documentary, Provincetown International Film Festival), which premiered nationwide on PBS’s P.O.V.
[edit] Plays
- Reasons to wake up
- Star of mine
- A history of plastic slipcovers
- Al takes a bride
- Mercury
- Sweetness
- Five ways in
[edit] Television
- As The World Turns (Breakdown Writer: December 2006- Present)
