Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Original Play (General Theatre)
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The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre.
For most of the Dora Awards' history, separate awards have been presented for best play and Best Original Musical. For part of the 1990s, however, the two awards were merged with both musicals and dialogue-based plays competing in a single category. From 1980 to 1988, only a single award was presented each year; beginning in 1988, a separate award was introduced for Outstanding New Play, Small/Independent Theatre.
Winners and nominees
[edit]1980s
[edit]1990s
[edit]Years marked with a § are those in which the awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding New Musical were merged.
2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]| Year | Playwright | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Michael Healey | Courageous | |
| Carmen Aguirre | Refugee Hotel | ||
| Anusree Roy | Letters to My Grandma | ||
| Erin Shields | If We Were Birds | ||
| Judith Thompson | Such Creatures | ||
| 2011 | Anusree Roy | Brothel #9 | |
| Maja Ardal | The Cure for Everything | ||
| Brendan Gall | Wide Awake Hearts | ||
| Andrew Kushnir | The Middle Place | ||
| Roland Schimmelpfennig | Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God - The Africa Trilogy | ||
| 2012 | Pamela Mala Sinha | Crash | |
| Ins Choi | Kim's Convenience | ||
| Erin Fleck | Those Who Can't Do | ||
| Tim Supple, Hanan al-Shaykh | One Thousand and One Nights | ||
| Evan Webber | Ajax & Little Iliad | ||
| 2013 | Kristen Thomson | Someone Else | [42] |
| Melody Johnson | Miss Caledonia | ||
| Daniel MacIvor | Arigato, Tokyo | ||
| Hannah Moscovitch | Little One | ||
| Tawiah M'carthy | Obaaberima | ||
| 2014 | Vern Thiessen | Of Human Bondage | |
| Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, Andrew Kushnir | The Gay Heritage Project | [43] | |
| Sean Dixon | A God in Need of Help | ||
| Tim Luscombe | Pig | ||
| Marcus Youssef, James Long | Winners and Losers | ||
| 2015 | Hannah Moscovitch | Infinity | |
| Michael Hollingsworth | Trudeau and Lévesque | ||
| Maria Milisavljevic | Abyss | ||
| Carolyn Smart, Nicky Guadagni | Hooked | ||
| 2016 | Kat Sandler | Mustard | |
| Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry, Karin Randoja | Gertrude and Alice | ||
| Fabrizio Filippo | The Summoned | ||
| Jordan Tannahill | Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom | ||
| Severn Thompson | Elle | ||
| 2017 | Nick Green | Body Politic | |
| Katherine Cullen, Britta Johnson | Stupidhead! | ||
| Diane Flacks | Unholy | ||
| Kristen Thomson | The Wedding Party | ||
| David Yee | Acquiesce | ||
| 2018 | Evalyn Parry, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory | Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools | |
| Rose Napoli | Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) | ||
| Jivesh Parasram | Take d Milk, Nah? | ||
| Kat Sandler | Bang Bang | ||
| Emil Sher | The Boy in the Moon | ||
| 2019 | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | Guarded Girls | [44] |
| Yolanda Bonnell | Bug | ||
| Lisa Karen Cox, Maggie Huculak, Raha Javanfar, Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Cheyenne Scott | Now You See Her | ||
| Kate Hennig | The Virgin Trial | ||
| Hannah Moscovitch, Maev Beaty, Anne-Marie Kerr | Secret Life of a Mother |
2020s
[edit]| Year | Playwright | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Anosh Irani | Buffoon | [45] |
| Ronnie Burkett | Forget Me Not | ||
| Odile Gakire Katese | The Book of Life | ||
| Natasha Adiyana Morris | The Negroes Are Congregating | ||
| Kat Sandler | Yaga | ||
| 2021 | No ceremony held due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on theatre production in 2020. | [46] | |
| 2022 | Leanna Brodie, David Paquet | Wildfire | [47] |
| Cliff Cardinal | The Land Acknowledgement (As You Like It) | [48] | |
| Chloé Hung | Three Women of Swatow | ||
| Rosa Labordé | Light | ||
| Jordan Tannahill | Draw Me Close | ||
| 2023 | Kanika Ambrose | Our Place | [49] |
| Anosh Irani | Behind the Moon | [50] | |
| Paolo Santalucia | Prodigal | ||
| Erin Shields | Queen Goneril | ||
| Tawiah M'carthy, Brad Cook | Maanomaa, My Brother | ||
| 2024 | Michael Healey | The Master Plan | [51] |
| Seth Bockley, Jesse LaVercombe, Ahmed Moneka | King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild | [52] | |
| Alex Bulmer | Perceptual Archaeology (or How to Travel Blind) | ||
| Frances Koncan | Women of the Fur Trade | ||
| Nick Green | Casey and Diana | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Dora Mavor Moore Awards suffer from stage fright". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1981.
- ^ Carole Corbeil, "Just like Oscars: lots of no-shows Carver, Maxwell win theatre awards". The Globe and Mail, January 26, 1982.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Donald Davis, Loose Ends lead Dora nominees". The Globe and Mail, December 4, 1981.
- ^ Carole Corbeil, "An outstanding night for Tamara". The Globe and Mail, November 16, 1982.
- ^ "Dora Mavor Moore awards: Tamara paces the nominees". The Globe and Mail, October 1, 1982.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Thomson, Phipps take Doras for outstanding acting". The Globe and Mail, October 11, 1983.
- ^ Stephen Godfrey, "Jungle of Cities wins four Doras". The Globe and Mail, October 23, 1984.
- ^ Stephen Godfrey, "Team aims to make this award show different". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 1984.
- ^ "Cats takes lion's share of Dora awards". Montreal Gazette, October 9, 1985.
- ^ Henry Mietkiewicz, "Cats leads pack of Dora nominees". Toronto Star, September 5, 1985.
- ^ "Desert Song sweeps Dora awards as top production in Toronto theatre". Ottawa Citizen, June 17, 1986.
- ^ "Tarragon sweeps the nominations for Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 15, 1986. Page F1.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Mikado, B-Movie big Dora winners". The Globe and Mail, June 23, 1987.
- ^ "Mikado nominated for 7 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 27, 1987.
- ^ Robert Crew, "George Walker play sweeps Dora awards". Toronto Star, June 14, 1988.
- ^ "CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 11, 1988. Page C1.
- ^ Robert Crew, "Passe Muraille sweeps up Doras". Toronto Star, June 26, 1989.
- ^ "And the Dora nominees are...". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1989.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Three Doras each for Billy the Kid, Love and Anger". The Globe and Mail, June 26, 1990.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "Dora nominations harvested from sparse crop of new plays". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 1990.
- ^ "Lilies, 7 Stories win top honors". Ottawa Citizen, June 18, 1991.
- ^ H. J. Kirchhoff, "That Scatterbrain Booky and Lilies pace Dora race: Each production picks up eight nominations". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 1991.
- ^ H. J. Kirchhoff, "Beattie and Cavendish take home Doras George F. Walker's Escape from Happiness named outstanding new play". The Globe and Mail, June 29, 1992.
- ^ "Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 14, 1992.
- ^ "Kiss of the Spider Woman captures 7 Dora Awards". Waterloo Region Record, June 22, 1993.
- ^ "Dora Award nominations". Toronto Star, May 11, 1993.
- ^ Vit Wagner, "Dora Awards crazy for Crazy For You". Toronto Star, June 21, 1994.
- ^ Elizabeth Renzetti, "Miss Saigon leads in race for Doras". The Globe and Mail, May 18, 1994.
- ^ Vit Wagner, "Music to the ears: Tommy & Assassins whistle up five Dora Awards apiece". Toronto Star, June 7, 1995.
- ^ "Nominations for '95 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 13, 1995.
- ^ "Dora Mavor Moore Awards announced". Montreal Gazette, June 25, 1996.
- ^ Geoff Chapman, "Canadian Stage, Tarragon lead Dora nominations". Toronto Star, May 17, 1996.
- ^ Vit Wagner, "Ragtime beats out seven Dora awards". Toronto Star, September 30, 1997.
- ^ Vit Wagner, "Ragtime sets Dora nominations beat Musical leads field for Toronto theatre awards". Toronto Star, September 12, 1997.
- ^ "List of Dora Award winners". Toronto Star, June 23, 1998.
- ^ "Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 27, 1998.
- ^ Robert Cushman, "The Drawer Boy gets load of Doras, but Soulpepper's Don Carlos is overlooked". National Post, June 22, 1999.
- ^ Vit Wagner, "Opera leads Moore race ; Main rivals on musical front are Mirvish shows". Toronto Star, May 28, 1999.
- ^ Robert Cushman, "I, Claudia takes Doras for best actress, new play: Toronto Theatre Awards". National Post, June 26, 2001.
- ^ Kenneth Jones, "Toronto's Seussical and We Will Rock You Are Top Getters in Dora Nominations". Playbill, June 8, 2007.
- ^ Robert Cushman, "The play is the thing, not artificial categories; Dora stipulations make for some odd award nominees". National Post, June 27, 2009.
- ^ Richard Ouzounian, "Cinderella cleans up with 7 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, June 25, 2013.
- ^ Robert Cushman, "Best in shows; The Doras have a weak field to choose from this year, but they've chosen well". National Post, June 21, 2014.
- ^ "Soulpepper’s Rose grabs four Dora Awards". Toronto Star, June 26, 2019.
- ^ Smith, Mae (June 29, 2020). "2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
- ^ "Dora Awards honour lifetime achievement in theatre as COVID-19 shuts down live shows: Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrates lifetime contributions after COVID-19 pandemic shut down live performances". The Globe and Mail, June 16, 2021.
- ^ Joshua Chong, "‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Italian Mime Suicide’ and ‘Wildfire’ win big at 2022 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, September 19, 2022.
- ^ Aisling Murphy, "Nomination Announcements: 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards". Intermission Magazine, August 29, 2022.
- ^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Crow’s Theatre and Soulpepper share the spotlight at Dora Mavor Moore Awards". The Globe and Mail, June 28, 2023.
- ^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Crow’s Theatre’s plays Red Velvet and Uncle Vanya lead the way in nominations for Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Awards". The Globe and Mail, May 29, 2023.
- ^ Glenn Sumi, "Dora Awards 2024: ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ earns four statuettes at Toronto’s top theatre honours". Toronto Star, June 24, 2024.
- ^ Aisling Murphy, "TAPA announces 2024 Dora Award nominees". Intermission Magazine, May 28, 2004.