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Dora Awards 2024 Winners, Dora Awards Nominees
by T Santhosh
Updated Jun 25, 2024
Dora Awards 2024 Winners
These are the winners who represent the diverse and vibrant theatre scene across various categories and divisions for the 2024 Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
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Award Category |
Winners |
Production/Organization |
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Outstanding Production (Musical) |
Crow’s Theatre and Musical Stage Company |
"Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" |
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Outstanding Performance (Musical) |
Damien Atkins |
"De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail" |
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Outstanding New Musical/Opera |
Soulpepper |
"De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail" |
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Outstanding Production (General Theatre) |
Soulpepper and Obsidian Theatre Company |
"Three Sisters" |
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Outstanding Acting Ensemble (General Theatre) |
Soulpepper and Obsidian Theatre Company |
"Three Sisters" |
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Outstanding Performance (General Theatre) |
Amaka Umeh |
"Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" |
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Outstanding Sound Design/Composition |
Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski and Moneka Arabic Jazz Band |
"King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild" |
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Outstanding New Play |
Michael Healey |
"The Master Plan" |
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Outstanding Scenic Design |
Joshua Quinlan |
"The Master Plan" |
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Outstanding Projection Design |
Amelia Scott |
"The Master Plan" |
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Outstanding Director |
Andrew Kushnir |
"Bad Roads" |
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Outstanding Lighting Design |
Christian Horoszczak |
"Bad Roads" |
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Outstanding Costume Design |
Astrid Janson, Abby Esteireiro, and Merle Harley |
"Mad Madge" |
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Outstanding Production (Independent Theatre) |
Coal Mine Theatre |
"Appropriate" |
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Outstanding Scenic Design (Independent Theatre) |
Steve Lucas and Rebecca Morris |
"Appropriate" |
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Outstanding New Play (Independent Theatre) |
Peter N. Bailey |
"Tyson’s Song" |
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Outstanding Director (Independent Theatre) |
Jonathan Seinen |
"Access Me" |
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Outstanding Performance (Independent Theatre) |
Lindsey Middleton |
"Suddenly Last Summer" |
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Outstanding Ensemble Performance (Independent) |
Cast of "SwordPlay" |
Sex T-Rex and Bad Dog Comedy Theatre |
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Outstanding Costume Design (Independent) |
Nancy Anne Perrin |
"Bremen Town" |
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Outstanding Lighting Design (Independent) |
Raha Javanfar |
"(Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them)" |
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Outstanding Sound Design/Composition (Independent) |
Nariman Eskandari and Goli Zarei |
"Voiceless" |
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Outstanding Production (Opera) |
Canadian Opera Company |
"Medea" |
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Outstanding Performance (Opera) |
Chiara Isotton |
"Medea" |
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Outstanding Production (Young Audiences) |
Fiona Sauder and Matt Pilipiak |
"Storybook Search" |
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Outstanding New Play (Young Audiences) |
Kanika Ambrose |
"Truth" |
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Outstanding Performance (Young Audiences) |
Jasmine Case |
"Truth" |
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Outstanding Scenic Design (Young Audiences) |
Anna Treusch |
"The Fixing Girl" |
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Outstanding Production (Dance) |
dance immersion and Holla Jazz, in association with Canadian Stage |
"Young, Gifted & Jazz" |
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Outstanding Choreography |
Caroline “Lady C” Fraser |
"Cymatix" |
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Outstanding Performance (Dance) |
Caroline “Lady C” Fraser |
"Cymatix" |
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Outstanding Touring Production |
Teater Patrasket |
"Pinocchio" |
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Outstanding Innovative Experience |
Broadleaf Creative with Why Not Theatre and Toronto History Museums |
"Benevolence Hall" |
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Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award |
Theatre Passe Muraille and Silk Bath Collective |
"Woking Phoenix" |
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Silver Ticket Award |
Leonard McHardy |
Dora Awards 2024 Nominees
The 2024 Dora Awards nominees celebrate outstanding theater, musical, opera, and dance productions in Toronto. Check out the list below.
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Division |
Production |
Nominations |
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General Theatre Division |
Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Soulpepper Theatre Company) |
7 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu), Individual Performance (Amaka Umeh), Scenic/Projection Design (Ken MacKenzie), Costume Design (Ming Wong), Lighting Design (Raha Javanfar), Sound Design/Composition (Richard Feren) |
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The Master Plan (Crow’s Theatre) |
6 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Michael Healey), Direction (Chris Abraham), Individual Performance (Mike Shara), Scenic/Projection Design (Joshua Quinlan, Amelia Scott), Lighting Design (Kimberly Purtell) |
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Bad Roads (Crow’s Theatre) |
5 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Andrew Kushnir), Ensemble Performance (Andrew Chown, Katherine Gauthier, Craig Lauzon, Diego Matamoros, Seana McKenna, Michelle Monteith, Shauna Thompson), Lighting Design (Christian Horoszczak), Sound Design/Composition (Thomas Ryder Payne) |
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King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild (Soulpepper Theatre Company and TRIA Theatre) |
5 - New Play (Seth Bockley, Jesse LaVercombe, Ahmed Moneka), Direction (Seth Bockley), Individual Performance (Ahmed Moneka), Lighting Design (Lorenzo Savoini), Sound Design/Composition (Adrian Shepherd Gawinski, Moneka Arabic Jazz Band) |
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Three Sisters (Soulpepper Theatre Company and Obsidian Theatre Company) |
5 - Outstanding Production, Ensemble Performance (Akosua Amo-Adem, Virgilia Griffith, Daren A. Herbert, Sterling Jarvis, JD Leslie, Tawiah M’Carthy, Ngabo Nabea, Oyin Oladejo, Tony Ofori, Makambe K. Simamba, Ordena Stephens-Thompson, Amaka Umeh), Scenic/Projection Design (Joanna Yu), Costume Design (Ming Wong), Sound Design/Composition (John Gzowski, Adekunle) |
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The Inheritance Part 1 (Canadian Stage) |
4 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Brendan Healy), Individual Performance (Daniel MacIvor), Ensemble Performance (Salvatore Antonio, Aldrin Bundoc, Hollywood Jade, Breton Lalama, Landon Nesbitt, Ben Page, Gregory Prest) |
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Women of the Fur Trade (Native Earth Performing Arts, National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company) |
3 - New Play (Frances Končan), Scenic/Projection Design (Lauchlin Johnston, Candelario Andrade), Costume Design (Vanessa Imeson) |
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A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (An Outside the March and Soulpepper Theatre Production) |
2 - Scenic/Projection Design (Anahita Dehbonehie), Lighting Design (Nick Blais) |
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Casey and Diana (Soulpepper Theatre Company and the Stratford Festival) |
2 - New Play (Nick Green), Individual Performance (Sean Arbuckle) |
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Wildwoman (Soulpepper Theatre Company) |
2 - Ensemble Performance (Tony Ofori, Dan Mousseau, Gabriella Sundar Singh, Rosemary Dunsmore), Costume Design (Michelle Tracey) |
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Here Lies Henry (Factory Theatre) |
1 - Individual Performance (Damien Atkins) |
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Mad Madge (Nightwood Theatre in association with VideoCabaret) |
1 - Costume Design (Astrid Janson, Abby Esteireiro, Merle Harley) |
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Monster (Factory Theatre) |
1 - Sound Design/Composition (Thomas Ryder Payne) |
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Perceptual Archaeology (or How to Travel Blind) (Crow’s Theatre and Fire and Rescue Team) |
1 - New Play (Alex Bulmer) |
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shaniqua in abstraction (Crow’s Theatre, paul watson productions, Obsidian Theatre Company) |
1 - Individual Performance (bahia watson) |
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The Inheritance Part 2 (Canadian Stage) |
1 - Ensemble Performance (Salvatore Antonio, Aldrin Bundoc, Hollywood Jade, Breton Lalama, Landon Nesbitt, Ben Page, Gregory Prest, Louise Pitre) |
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The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time (Tarragon Theatre/NAC presentation of the NAC/Neptune Theatre production) |
1 - Individual Performance (Walter Borden) |
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Independent Theatre Division |
Bremen Town (Bremen Town Collective, Next Stage Festival) |
6 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Gregory Prest), Direction (Gregory Prest), Ensemble Performance (Tatjana Cornij, Simon Gagnon, Farhang Ghajar, Deborah Grover, Veronica Hortiguela, Gregory Prest, William Webster), Costume Design (Nancy Anne Perrin), Sound Design/Composition (Tatjana Cornij) |
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Tyson’s Song (Pleiades Theatre) |
6 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Peter N. Bailey), Direction (Ash Knight), Individual Performance (Kyle Brown), Scenic/Projection Design (Anahita Dehbonehie), Costume Design (Des’ree Gray) |
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(EVERYONE I LOVE HAS) A TERRIBLE FATE (BEFALL THEM) (VideoCabaret in association with Crow’s Theatre) |
5 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Cliff Cardinal), Individual Performance (Cliff Cardinal), Lighting Design (Raha Javanfar), Sound Design/Composition (Alex Williams) |
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Appropriate (Coal Mine Theatre) |
5 - Outstanding Production, Scenic/Projection Design (Steve Lucas, Rebecca Morris), Costume Design (Des’ree Gray), Lighting Design (Steve Lucas), Sound Design/Composition (Deanna Choi, Michael Wanless) |
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Access Me (Boys in Chairs Collective) |
3 - New Play (Andrew Gurza, Ken Harrower, Frank Hull, Debbie Patterson, Brian Postalian, Jonathan Seinen), Direction (Jonathan Seinen), Ensemble Performance (Andrew Gurza, Ken Horrower, Frank Hull) |
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MacBeth: “A Tale Told by an Idiot” (Eldritch Theatre) |
3 - Individual Performance (Eric Woolfe), Scenic/Projection Design (Melanie McNeill), Costume Design (Melanie McNeill) |
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Prophecy Fog (Coal Mine Theatre in association with Paper Canoe Projects) |
3 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Franco Boni), Individual Performance (Jani Lauzon) |
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland Company and Crow’s Theatre) |
2 - Direction (Philip Akin), Ensemble Performance (Mac Fyfe, Ruth Goodwin, Cameron Laurie, Maria Ricossa, Hallie Seline) |
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On the Other Side of the Sea (Aluna Theatre) |
2 - Individual Performance (Beatriz Pizano), Lighting Design (Trevor Schwellnus) |
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The Effect (Coal Mine Theatre) |
2 - Scenic/Projection Design (Nick Blais, Jack Considine), Sound Design/Composition (James Smith) |
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Voiceless (Veylān Film and Theatre Production) |
2 - New Play (Payam Saeedi), Sound Design/Composition (Nariman Eskandari, Goli Zarei) |
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Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (That Theatre Company) |
1 - Lighting Design (Bonnie Beecher) |
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Earworm (Nowadays Theatre Company in association with Crow’s Theatre) |
1 - Individual Performance (Aida Keykhaii) |
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Heartless (Favour The Brave Collective) |
1 - Costume Design (Kalina Popova) |
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Quartet (Other Hearts in association with VideoCabaret) |
1 - Scenic/Projection Design (Eija Loponen-Stephenson, Sebastian Marziali, Silvae Mercedes, Harri Thomas) |
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Suddenly Last Summer (Riot King) |
1 - Individual Performance (Lindsey Middleton) |
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SwordPlay (Sex T-Rex & Bad Dog Comedy Theatre) |
1 - Ensemble Performance (Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Victoria Laberge, Lowen Morrow, Seann Murray, Sharjil Rasool, Alec Toller, Jon Blair) |
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The Tempest (Theatre Rusticle) |
1 - Lighting Design (Michelle Ramsay) |
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The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare BASH’d) |
1 - Ensemble Performance (Daniel Briere, Joshua Browne, Tristan Claxton, Jennifer Dzialoszynski, Steven Hao, Madelaine Hodges, Melanie Leon, Michael Man, Kate Martin, Julia Nish-Lapidus, Breanne Tice, Le Truong, Emilio Vieira, Jeff Yung) |
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Musical Theatre Division |
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Talk is Free Theatre) |
6 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Mitchell Cushman), Individual Performance (Gab Desmond, Paula Wolfson), Scenic/Projection Design (Anna Treusch), Lighting Design (Lorenzo Savoini) |
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Kelly v. Kelly (Canadian Stage) |
4 - Individual Performance (Anika Johnson, Peter Fernandes), Costume Design (Sorin Danciu), Sound Design/Composition (Dora Winner) |
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Chicago (Drayton Entertainment) |
2 - Individual Performance (Angelina Hinchliffe), Costume Design (Alex Amini) |
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Opera Division |
Salome (Canadian Opera Company) |
7 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Atom Egoyan), Musical Direction (Johannes Debus), Individual Performance (Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Karita Mattila), Ensemble Performance (Canadian Opera Company Chorus), Scenic/Projection Design (Drew Facey, Laurie-Shawn Borzovoy) |
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Macbeth (Canadian Opera Company) |
6 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Sir David McVicar), Musical Direction (Giuseppe Pietraroia), Individual Performance (Craig Colclough), Scenic/Projection Design (John Macfarlane), Lighting Design (David Finn) |
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Dance Division |
The Rite of Spring (Opera Atelier) |
4 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Marshall Pynkoski), Individual Performance (Tyler Gledhill), Ensemble Performance (Artists of Atelier Ballet) |
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Unwrapped (Fujiwara Dance Inventions) |
4 - Outstanding Production, New Choreography (Denise Fujiwara), Individual Performance (Mikael Bouyoucas, Rebecca Hope Terry) |
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She Said He Said (Kaeja d’Dance) |
2 - Outstanding Production, New Choreography (Allen Kaeja) |
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Theatre for Young Audiences Division |
Ephemeral Artifacts (Toasterlab) |
6 - Outstanding Production, Direction (Ian Garrett), Ensemble Performance (Kimberley Radmacher, Swaha Dewan), New Play (Brian Postalian, Swaha Dewan), Scenic/Projection Design (Ian Garrett), Sound Design/Composition (Swaha Dewan) |
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Eleanor’s Story (Suitcase Theatre) |
4 - Outstanding Production, Ensemble Performance (Christine Horne, Jacqueline Landgraf, Matthew MacFadzean), New Play (Christine Horne) |
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Being and Nothingness (Pancho) |
3 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Maria Popoff), Individual Performance (Alexander Hutchinson) |
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Happy Place (Theatre Gargantua) |
2 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Matthew MacFadzean) |
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Nikki (Some Little People Productions) |
2 - Outstanding Production, New Play (Maria Popoff) |
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Poupée (Manx Puppet Theatre) |
2 - Outstanding Production, Individual Performance (Camille Perrin) |
44th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards Highlights
The 44th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrated talented artists in Toronto's theatre, dance, and opera scene. Hosted by Ryan G. Hinds at the Winter Garden Theatre, it was a night of recognition and entertainment. The awards covered 43 categories across different divisions, including General Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance, Opera, and more.
One of the highlights was Damien Atkins winning outstanding performance in "De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail" by Soulpepper. The production also received accolades for a new musical/opera. Another standout was the success of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" by Crow’s and Musical Stage Company, winning multiple awards in the musical division.
Michael Healey's adaptation, "The Master Plan," based on Josh O’Kane’s book, received praise and won the Dora for best new play. The Canadian Opera Company's production of "Medea" swept all categories in the opera division, showcasing excellence in this genre. The event also honored Leonard McHardy with the Silver Ticket Award and recognized "Woking Phoenix" with the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award.
For those interested in experiencing these remarkable works, some productions will continue or return for viewing. "The Master Plan" will have an extension in late November, while "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" is set to return next summer. Additionally, "Swordplay" by Sex T-Rex will be showcased at the Toronto Fringe next month.
Dora Mavor Moore Awards
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards are a big celebration in Toronto for people who work in theatre, dance, and opera. They're named after Dora Mavor Moore, who was very important in Canadian theatre a long time ago. She helped make professional theatre in Canada better during the 1930s and 1940s. The awards are given to people who do great work in these arts every year.
They started in 1978, and since 2019, they've been the first big awards in Canada that include everyone, no matter their gender. The awards are given out in many categories, like General Theatre, Independent Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance, Opera, Theatre for Young Audiences, Touring, and Innovation.
This means they cover a lot of different kinds of performances. Every year, they give awards in 43 different categories across these areas. The people who organize these awards are from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). These awards and programs show how much the arts mean to Toronto and how they help new artists succeed.
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