A prolific writer, Aaron Bushkowsky has been playwright-in-residence for The Vancouver Playhouse, Touchstone Theatre and was involved with the Playwrights Unity at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. Aaron’s plays have been produced across Canada, the US, and Europe and been translated into French and Russian. He’s been nominated 9 times for Outstanding Original Play at the Jessie Richardson Awards, winning two. The 9 nominations are the most for any playwright in Vancouver. In fact, Aaron has been nominated for writing awards in several genres: film (Leos), theatre (Jessie, Sterling), fiction (Leacock Award for Humour Writing in Canada), and poetry (Dorothy Livesay Award). He’s also written for TV and the corporate world and occasionally works as a cartoonist, illustrator, and photographer. As a theatre writer some of his most successful plays have dealt with health issues like memory loss and depression, but mostly he is known as a comedy writer with a keen ear for dialogue. He’s also served twice as a jury member for the Governor General’s Award for Drama and taught Creative Writing for colleges and universities, including Vancouver’s famous theatre school Studio 58. He has a dog or two, both Aussies and lives in Vancouver, BC.
Aaron Bushkowsky
Playwright / Screenwriter
Works by Aaron Bushkowsky
Published Works
Plays
- My Chernobyl (2009) published by Playwrights Canada Press
- The Waterhead and other Plays – Playwrights Canada Press, 2003. Available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- Strangers Among Us - Playwrights Canada Press, 1999. Available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- After Jerusalem - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- Dancing Backwards - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- Java Life - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- The Project - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- One Last Kiss - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- Play With Monsters - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- The Dead Reckoning - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
- Landscapes of the Dead - available through PGC’s Canadian Play Outlet
Poetry
- eb and mabel to to the moon (1994) published by Oolichan Books
- Mars is for Poems (2002) published by Oolichan Books
Novel & Short Stories
- The Vanishing Man (2005) published by Cormorant Books
- Curtains for Roy (2014) published by Cormorant Books
- Water Proof (2021) published by Cormorant Books