[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.
He received the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and has also been a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship.
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.