For all of you international entertainment fans out there, you'll be excited to learn who the recipients for the prestigious Dora Mavor Moore Awards are. The "Dora Award" (not to be confused with the animated Dora the Explorer!) is presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, which honors theater, dance, and opera productions. Dora Mavor Moore helped establish the Canadian professional theater.


GENERAL THEATRE PRODUCTION DIVISION

Outstanding New Play
Michael Healey Courageous

Outstanding Production
Parfumerie Soulpepper Theatre Company

Outstanding Direction of a Play / Musical
Morris Panych Parfumerie

Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role
Diego Matamoros Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role
Tara Rosling If We Were Birds

Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role / Ensemble
Maurice Dean Wint Courageous

Outstanding Original Set Design
Ken MacDonald Parfumerie

Outstanding Original Costume Design
Martha Mann The Marriage of Figaro

Outstanding Original Lighting Design
Andrea Lundy Hamlet

Outstanding Original Sound Design/Composition
Thomas Ryder Payne If We Were Birds

Outstanding Musical Direction
Johannes Debus The Flying Dutchman

Outstanding Original Choreography
Jonathon Feng Han; Alyssa Xiaoli Wang; Chen Jiao; Wen Qiqi Monkey King

Outstanding Touring Production
Lipsynch Luminato presents Ex Machina




INDEPENDENT THEATRE PRODUCTION DIVISION

Outstanding New Play or New Musical
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Gas Girls

Outstanding Production
The Mill Theatrefront in association with the Young Centre for the Performing Arts

Outstanding Direction
Vikki Anderson The Turn of the Screw

Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role
Clinton Walker The Turn of the Screw

Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role
Christine Horne The Turn of the Screw

Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role / Ensemble
The Ensemble Spent

Outstanding Original Set Design
Gillian Gallow The Mill

Outstanding Original Costume Design
Dana Osborne The Mill

Outstanding Original Lighting Design
Andrea Lundy The Mill

Outstanding Original Sound Design/Composition
David Atkinson The Belle of Winnipeg
DANCE DIVISION

Outstanding Original Choreography
Heidi Strauss this time

Outstanding Production
Shoot the Moon/Wings of Wax/The Second Person Luminato presents Nederlands Dans Theater

Outstanding Performance
Brendan Wyatt this time

Outstanding Original Sound Design/Composition
Richard Sacks in collaboration with Red Sky musicians: Tuvshinjargal Damdinjav,
Bat-Orshikh Bazarvaani, Batmend Baasankhuu, Eddy Robinson, Theo McGregor
Tono
THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES DIVISION

Outstanding Production
In This World Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People presents Youtheatre

Outstanding Performance
Natasha Greenblatt Get Yourself Home Skyler James
MUSICAL THEATRE DIVISION

Outstanding New Musical / Opera
R Murray Schafer The Children's Crusade

Outstanding Production
Assassins BirdLand Theatre and Talk is Free Theatre

Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role
Jeff Lillico The Light in the Piazza

Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role
Louise Pitre The Toxic Avenger Musical
OPERA DIVISION

Outstanding Performance
Julie Makerov The Flying Dutchman

Outstanding Production
The Nightingale and Other Short Fables
Canadian Opera Company/Festival d'Aix-en-Provence/Opéra national
de Lyon in collaboration with Ex Machina