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

Princeton University

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, 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

Helen Merrill

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 Award for Emerging Playwrights. His work has been published in The Best American Short Plays of 2001 and Monologues for Men by Men. He is a member of New Dramatists and the MCC Playwrights Coalition, and is a NYTW Usual Suspect.

In December 2004, Sunshine was in residence at the Royal National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

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 Studio in London. 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

Sundance Film Festival

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; Audience Award, Lake Placid Film Festival

Lake Placid Film Festival

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; Crystal Award, Heartland Film Festival

Heartland Film Festival

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; HBO Audience Award for Top Documentary, Provincetown International Film Festival

Provincetown International Film Festival

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), which premiered nationwide on PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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’s P.O.V.

P.O.V.

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.

Plays

• This Joan
• Reasons to wake up
• Star of mine
• A history of plastic slipcovers
• Al takes a bride
• Mercury
• Sweetness
• Five ways in

Television

• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
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  (Breakdown Writer
  Head writer
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  : December 2006- July 2007) http://www.cbs.com/daytime/atwt/about/showinfo/

External links

• http://info.gcsu.edu/tip/archives/2006/Studentstogivestagedreadi.html
• http://www.altakesabride.com/
• http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/whatiwant/behind_interview.html
• http://www.amdoc.org/outreach_casestudies_wiw.php
• http://www.goldstar.com/events/hollywood-ca/the-echo-theater-company-presents-eight-world-premiere-plays.html
• http://www.heartlandfilmfestival.org/2003/film_details.aspx?filmID=23
• http://ddw.tisch.nyu.edu/object/flnp_playwrights_garysunshine.html
• http://www.advocate.com/print_article_ektid12560.asp