Aaron Bushkowsky

Aaron has been produced and published in several genres: film, poetry, theatre, prose, and non-fiction. His book of poetry ed and mabel go to the moon was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. His latest book of poems, Mars is for Poems (Oolichan Books), garnered critical acclaim. His short film, The Alley, which aired on CBC, won the National Screen Institute drama prize, was nominated for six Leos (BC Film Awards). Aaron has several optioned screenplays in development. His plays have been produced throughout Canada. His newest, My Chernobyl, received its world premiere in March 2008 at Richmond Gateway Theatre before moving to the Belfry in Victoria. The play received nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and led all Vancouver productions. It was published in 2009 by Playwrights Canada Press and is being translated into French for publication in France. Aaron has also been nominated for Jessie Theatre Awards for Outstanding Original Play seven times over the past ten years, more than any other playwright in Canada, winning two. His plays have received 32 Jessie nominations in total. Aaron has served as playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre, The Playhouse, Rumble Theatre and as a resident film-writer at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. As a dramaturge and story editor, Aaron has worked on over 50 plays and a number of film-scripts. Other books include a collection of short stories, The Vanishing Man (Cormorant Books), and drama Strangers Among Us (Playwrights Canada Press, 1999), and The Waterhead (Playwrights Canada Press), that features three plays of his produced by Solo Collective, a theatre company he helps run. Aaron has a new novel coming out Curtains for Roy (Cormorant Books, 2010), a serious comedy about the Vancouver theatre scene.