Gary Sunshine

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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.

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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.

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  1. 1 2 Young, Glenn (2002). The Best Of American Short Plays 2000–2001 . Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9781557834805.
  2. ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly. Vol. 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. 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". PBS . Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  5. ↑ "Pellissippi State's Magnolia Avenue Drama Club Presents 'Al Takes A Bride". US Fed News Service. 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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