Education
Tisch School of the Arts.
Tisch School of the Arts.
She currently lives in San Francisco. Gunderson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Emory University in 2004, and her Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She writes about women in science and history, and comedies based on Shakespeare.
Gunderson was awarded the Lanford Wilson award in 2016. Her play "I and You" was the winner of the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her play Parts They Call Deep won the 2002 Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition and was produced Office-Broadway by Young Playwrights Incorporated. as part of the young Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane Theater. "Parts They Call Deep" and Background won her the Essential Theatre Prize in 2000 and 2004.