User:Aaron Bushkowsky

Aaron Bushkowsky (b. 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian playwright, poet, screen-writer, and prose writer.

Bushkowsky's plays have been produced mainly in Vancouver with other productions across Canada. Six of his plays were nominated for Vancouver's Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script, with two winning the award: strangers among us produced by Western Gold Theatre in 1998; and The Waterhead, produced by Solo Collective Theatre in 2000.

He has served as playwright-in-residence for a number of well known Canadian theatre companies, including The Vancouver Playhouse, Rumble Theatre, and Touchstone Theatre.

Bushkowsky is also a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre and was awarded the National Screen Institute Drama Prize in 1999 for a short film The Alley which was nominated for six Leos -- British Columbia film awards.

Bushkowsky's first book of poetry, ed and mabel go to the moon was nominated for a BC Book Award -- the Dorothy Livesay Prize -- in 1995.

Publications
ed and mabel go to the moon (poetry, Oolichan Books, 1994)

strangers among us (drama, Playwrights Canada Press, 1999)

Mars is for Poems (poetry, Oolichan Books, 2002)

The Waterhead and Other Plays (drama, Playwrights Canada Press, 2003)

The Vanishing Man (short fiction, Cormorant Books, 2005)