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, and 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 awarded the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at HBO's Provincetown Film Festival.