TAPA announces The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee from
Shifting Ground Collective as the 2025 Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award recipient
Toronto, ON (June 30, 2025) – The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)
announced that the 2025 Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award went to The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee from Shifting Ground Collective, which also won Dora
Awards for Outstanding Production and Creative Direction in the Musical Theatre division. This
award, sponsored by Now Toronto, is voted on by the public from the year’s list of Outstanding
Production nominees, or by writing in their own favourite show.
Previous winners of this award include Come From Away, ‘da Kink in My Hair, and Woking
Phoenix.
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Canada’s largest and oldest awards program, celebrates the
incredible talent within Toronto’s professional theatre, dance, and opera communities. For
additional information, please visit tapa.ca/doras.
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