Gary Sunshine received the 2005 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. His play Sweetness was produced in Arielle Tepper’s inaugural Summer Play Festival (SPF) at the Clurman Theatre. His play Mercury was produced at Here in association with Eve Ensler. His play Kahn And Kant was produced by the Drama League’s New Directors project. In December 2004, he workshopped his play Reasons To Wake Up, while on attachment at London’s Royal National Theatre Studio. His work has been seen and developed at New York Stage & Film, NYTW’s Just Add Water Festival, Rattlestick, the New Group, Underwood Theater, MCC Theater, the Actors Studio, The Flea, the Directors Company, the Hypothetical Theater Company, the Cherry Lane Alternative, and Rising Phoenix Rep. His one-act play Al Takes A Bride was published in “The Best American Short Plays of 2001” (Applause). Gary co-directed, wrote, and co-produced the feature-length documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You (Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival; Audience Award, Lake Placid Film Festival; Crystal Award, Heartland Film Festival; HBO Audience Award for Top Documentary, Provincetown International Film Festival), which premiered nationwide on PBS’s “P.O.V.” He received an M.F.A. from NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program. He is a member of MCC's Playwrights Coalition and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. He is currently writing a film for Starry Night Entertainment.
