1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards

1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards

The 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrated excellence in theatre from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.

Winners and nominees

General Theatre Division

Production	Original Play
Spring Awakening – CentreStage Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre	Jessica by Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths Islands by Margaret Hollingsworth – New Play Centre La Storia: A Table of Fables by Maristella Roca – Acting Company Papers by Allan Stratton – Tarragon Theatre The Wedding Script by Don Hannah – Tarragon Theatre
Leading Actor	Leading Actress
Stephen Ouimette for Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Eran Productions Eric Peterson for The Double Bass – Theatre Passe Muraille R. H. Thomson for Hamlet – Toronto Free Theatre Brian Torpe for As Is – Toronto Free Theatre and Shaw Festival Jean-Guy Viau for Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur	Martha Burns for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre Nancy Beatty for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre Nora McLellan for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Patricia Phillips for And a Nightingale Sang – East Side Players Joanna Schellenberg for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Roland Hewgill for A Moon for the Misbegotten – Tarragon Theatre Sean McCann for Blue City Slammers – VTR Productions Avery Saltzman for The Treehouse at the Edge of the World – Young People's Theatre Mark Saunders for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre Keith Thomas for Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions	Frances Hyland for The Heiress Anne Anglin for Blue City Slammers – VTR Productions Helen Hughes for Islands – New Play Centre Diana Leblanc for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Mary Ellen Mahoney for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre
Direction	Scenic Design
Richard Greenblatt for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre Alexander Hausvater for Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions Ken Livingstone for Other Places – Tarragon Theatre Andy McKim for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre John Van Burek for Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur	Michael Levine for Spring Awakening – CentreStage Reginald Bronskill for Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions John Ferguson for The Treehouse at the Edge of the World – Young People's Theatre Adam Kolodziej for Hamlet – Toronto Free Theatre Cameron Porteous for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre
Costume Design	Lighting Design
Michael Levine for Spring Awakening – CentreStage Shawn Kerwin for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre Sue LePage for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre Cameron Porteous for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Shadowland for The History of the Village of the Small Huts: The British – VideoCabaret and Theatre Passe Muraille	Robert Thomson for Spring Awakening – CentreStage Louise Guinand for A Moon for the Misbegotten – Tarragon Theatre Kevin Fraser for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Jim Plaxton for The Treehouse at the Edge of the World – Young People's Theatre Steven Hawkins for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre
Choreography
Christopher House for Green Evening, Clear and Warm – Toronto Dance Theatre Conrad Alexandrowicz for Auto-da-Fé – Dancemakers Bill James for Atlas Moves Watching

Musical Theatre or Revue Division

Production	Original Musical
The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre	The Secret Garden by Joan MacLeod and Stephen McNeff – COMUS Music Theatre Bordering on Madness, or Who's Tory Now – Second City The Moose That Roared by Jim Betts – Young People's Theatre
Actor	Actress
Victor A. Young for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Steven Bush for Bad Apples – Mixed Company Theatre David Switzer for Half Past the Eighties – FASS Theatre Company	Allison Grant for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre Linda Kash for Bordering on Madness, or Who's Tory Now – Second City Camilla Scott for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre
Direction	Scenic Design
Christopher Newton for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Edward Love for A... My Name Is Alice – Schwarz/Sewell Productions Kelly Robinson for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre	Mary Kerr for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Michael Cooper, Robin Muller and Jim Plaxton for The Thunder, Perfect Mind – Toronto Free Theatre Leslie Macauley for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre
Costume Design	Lighting Design
Mary Kerr for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Leslie Macauley for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre David Gibb for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre	Jeffrey Dallas for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Ben Cekuta for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre Stephen Ross for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre
Musical Direction	Choreography
Chris Donison and Roger Perkins for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Don Horsburugh and David Warrack for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre Brahm Goldhamer for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre	Diane Nyland for Nunsense – Nunsense of Canada Bob Ainslie for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Brian Foley for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre

Independent Theatre Division

Production
Cabaret – VideoCabaret Melancholia – Theatre Columbus and Vox Pop Touch – David Demchuk and Buddies in Bad Times

Theatre for Young Audiences Division

Production
Getting Wrecked – Theatre Direct Skin – Young People's Theatre The General – Theatre Direct

See also

• 40th Tony Awards
• 1986 Laurence Olivier Awards