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Three creative minds from British Columbia have had their works shortlisted for 2012 Playwrights Guild of Canada awards.
Aaron Bushkowsky’s After Jerusalem is a finalist for the Carol Bolt Award, a $3,000 prize for best new work by a guild member from the past year. Bushkowsky’s play is a comedy about a school teacher looking for love in Israel. Vancouver’s Solo Collective Theatre presented the one-act play in December 2011.
Meanwhile, Tom Pinkerton: The Ballad of Butterfly’s Son, by Hiro Kanagawa and David MacIntyre, is a finalist for the New Musical Award. The $5,000 prize is awarded for the best musical work by a guild member that has yet to premiere. The musical drama Tom Pinkerton is a sequel to the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly.
The Playwrights Guild of Canada, a national advocacy group, announced the finalists in a news release on October 1. The winners are to be announced at an awards event in Mississauga, Ontario on October 22.
