Gary Sunshine

Gary Sunshine is an American playwright and television writer.[1] 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.[2] He received an MFA from NYU's Dramatic Writing Program. He received the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and has also been a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship. His work has been published in The Best American Short Plays and Monologues for Men by Men. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, East, as well as the Dramatists Guild.

In December 2004, Sunshine was in residence at the Royal National Theatre Studio in London. He wrote, co-created, and co-produced the documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You[3] which premiered nationwide on PBS’s P.O.V..[4] after being award the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at HBO's Provincetown Film Festival.

Plays
  • This Joan
  • Reasons to wake up
  • Star of mine
  • A history of plastic slipcovers
  • Al takes a bride[5]
  • Mercury[1]
  • Sweetness

Television
gollark: I'll test that.
gollark: ... done...
gollark: Should it just not accept numbers then?
gollark: ...
gollark: Done.

References
  1. Young, Glenn (2002). The Best Of American Short Plays 2000-2001. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9781557834805.
  2. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 88. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 9 December 1987. p. 53.
  3. Morris, Terry (4 December 2003). "Footlights; Middletown Production Captures Spirit of Swing Era". Dayton Daily News. Dayton, OH: High Beam. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  4. "P.O.V. - What I Want My Words to Do to You - Film Synopsis". Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  5. "Pellissippi State's Magnolia Avenue Drama Club Presents 'Al Takes A Bride". US Fed News Service. High Beam. 21 November 2006. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  6. "Hung Cast And Crew". HBO. Retrieved 21 May 2013.


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