Gary Sunshine is an

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playwright and television writer. He was born in

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and raised on

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, 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

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, where he majored in English with a concentration in Theater. He received an MFA from

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's Dramatic Writing Program. He received the

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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

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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'' which premiered nationwide on

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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'' * ''Mercury'' * ''Sweetness''

Television

* ''

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'' ( Breakdown Writer: December 2006 – July 2007) * '' Hung – HBO Television Series''

References

External links

PBS Interview with Gary Sunshine
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