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Gary Sunshine

GARY SUNSHINE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Corinne Hayoun

Gary Sunshine was a 2006 fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received the 2005 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. His plays have been produced at the Summer Play Festival (SPF), HERE, the Drama League, the Actors Studio, the Sydney Mardi Gras Festival, and the Echo Theater. His work has been developed at New York Stage & Film, NYTW, the New Group, P73, MCC Theater, and the New Company (London). He has been a writer-in residence at the Royal National Theatre Studio in London. Mr. Sunshine wrote, co-created, and co-produced the documentaryWhat I WANT My Words To Do To You(Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival), which premiered nationwide on PBS's P.O.V. He is a member of New Dramatists and the MCC Playwrights Coalition, and is a NYTW Usual Suspect. Mr. Sunshine received an A.B. from Princeton and an M.F.A. from NYU's Dramatic Writing Program.

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below is a list of Gary Sunshine's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Al Takes a Bride         Before the After         Best Sex Ever         History of Plastic Slipcovers, A         Kahn and Kant         Leaks they Left, The         Mercury         My President         Names Of Foods, The         Reasons To Wake Up         Star Of Mine         Sweetness         Tail, The         This Joan         Your Smiling Face

Al Takes a Bride

Synopsis:
On a moonlit riverbank, over a hundred years before the U.S. Congress passes the Defense of Marriage Act, two young southern women imagine their wedding to each other. Full of lyrical suspense and based loosely on a high-profile, turn of the century murder case, Al Takes a Bride hinges on impossible choices, where decisions rest somewhere between dreaming and dying.

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1st Produced:
Actors Studio Graduate Acting Program and Actors Studio (New York, NY, United States)    2003

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
40-50 min Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, one act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 male, 2 females

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Before the After

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Best Sex Ever

Synopsis:
Unfashionable Jeremy takes his vaguely foreign boyfriend Kraatz on his kindergarten teachers wedding cruise, hoping to settle a score with the groom, in this comedy about trying to top lifes hottest moments

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1st Produced:
Rising Phoenixs Cino Nights series    2010

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/best-sex-ever   -

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Genre:
85 min Gay, one act

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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History of Plastic Slipcovers, A

Synopsis:
A failed salesman arrives home with a fur coat.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kahn and Kant

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Drama League Directors Project    -

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Ten minute play

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Leaks they Left, The

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mercury

Synopsis:
A Manhattan lawyer on the verge of loosing everything meets someone called Gipper King in an online chatroom.

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1st Produced:
-    1997

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My President

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Echo Theater Company    -

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Names Of Foods, The

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the eXchange    -

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Reasons To Wake Up

Synopsis:
Three people involved in a brutal assault fifteen years ago are brought back together.

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Star Of Mine

Synopsis:
Glamorous New Yorkers suddenly abandon their unglamorous friends.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sweetness

Synopsis:
The intertwining of four people--Demetrius; his skinny best friend, Corey; his eternally-cheerful respiratory therapist, Heidi; and her boyfriend, an elusive janitor named Lamb--determines whether or not an explosive tragedy will visit a small town.

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from the author: SWEETNESS is a play about making the bad go away. When I first started working on it, I had planned it as a response to the 1999 Columbine massacre. I wanted to see if I could worm my way into the heads of the kids who perpetrated such violence and changed the way we thought of teenagers who perceive themselves as outsiders. My own experiences as a sometimes-bullied, sometimes-bullying suburbanite also wove their way through my early attempts at writing this play. Then 9/11 happened, and I was living in New York, trying to grapple with what had happened to my city, to 3000 people working in my city. I remember wanting not to have to analyze it, wanting to simply categorize the actions of the terrorists as Evil, which is really an end point, a terminusand theres not much you can do with a terminus but stop and be still, or turn around and go back into hiding. This is when SWEETNESS really began to take shape, as I realized what I really wanted to write about was how we respond to violence, how the hunger for vengeance can overwhelm us but also instruct uschallenge us, really. Challenge us to find a new way. I wondered if new ways were still possible after the Towers went down. But 9/11 only influenceddid not swallow upwhat was always essentially a story about two young outcastsone overweight, one gay--struggling to find some semblance of peace in suburbia, and some way to manifest hope in each other.

1st Produced:
-    2002

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/sweetness   -

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Genre:
Comedy one act 80 min

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tail, The

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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This Joan

Synopsis:
A widow tries to re-invent herself but is it too late when she is in her sixties?

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1st Produced:
-    2005

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Your Smiling Face

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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