September 19, 2022 at 7:30pm
Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre
189 Yonge Street
Ancillary Award Recipients
Silver Ticket Award: Pat Bradley
At the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards Show Ceremony on September 19, 2022, it was presented to the established arts administrator, educator, advocate and mentor, Pat Bradley. Bradley has been an icon of arts leadership, playing an instrumental role in instigating spaces for art, advocacy and change for over 35 years.
Pauline McGibbon Award: Monica Lee
Monica graduated from Humber College’s Theatre Arts – Technical Production program in 2016. Since then, she has been working as a props builder and head of props in both theatre and film. This includes credits with Obsidian Theatre Company, The Musical Stage Company, Mirvish Productions, Studio 180 Theatre, Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre and more. Recently, Monica has been focusing on combining her years of prop-building experience with new technology to build specialized costumes and fabricate textiles. This has led to work as a special effects costume builder on series such as Star Trek: Discovery (seasons 4 and 5) and Beacon 23.
Leonard McHardy & John Harvey Award: Rebecca Burton
Ms.Burton is a tireless champion of Canadian playwrights through her work as the Membership and Professional Contracts Manager with the Playwrights Guild of Canada and through past projects like Equity in Theatre (2014–2017), PLEDGE, SureFire, and more. Ms. Burton also works as an educator, feminist theatre practitioner, and researcher. She authored the benchmark report, Adding It Up: The Status of Women in Canadian Theatre (2006), which was published in various industry journals. With an established track record for championing women in the arts and equality practices, Ms. Burton has been an integral part of advancing Canadian Theatre.
Victor C. Polley Protégé Award: Idil Djafer
With over four years of arts administration experience, Ms. Djafer worked closely with Ms. Burton at the Playwrights Guild of Canada and currently is the Executive Assistant to Weyni Mengesha, Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company. In addition to her administrative role, Ms. Djafer is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist focusing on racial, religious and feminist issues.
George Luscombe Mentorship Award: Karen Kaeja
Ms. Kaeja is the Co-Artistic Director of renowned dance company Kaeja d’Dance, and is an award-winning performer, choreographer, educator, community builder and project instigator. With over 30 years of gracing the stage, Kaeja has a remarkable track record of mentorship and has demonstrated her ability to challenge and nurture future generations of young dancers. She empowers her mentees and holds space for agency and individuality, which results in poignant work that resonates with the artists as well as enthralling audiences.
Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award: Alice In Wonderland
The TAPA Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award for Outstanding Production, in honour of the beloved, long-time theatre critic Jon Kaplan and supported by Destination Toronto, was given out at the ceremony and selected by the general public. Presented with a commemorative plaque, the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award winner is Alice in Wonderland, Guild Festival Theatre.
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Program
Registered Productions
General Theatre Division
| among men | A Factory Theatre World Premiere Production |
| Children of Fire | A Nightwood Theatre Production with support from Aluna Theatre |
| Distant Early Warning | A Pearle Harbour & Buddies in Bad Times Theatre production |
| Draw Me Close | A National Film Board of Canada and National Theatre of Great Britain Co-Production in association with the National Arts Centre, Presented by Soulpepper and the National Film Board of Canada |
| Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | David Mirvish, Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender, Harry Potter Theatrical Productions |
| Is God Is | An Obsidian Theatre Company, Necessary Angel Theatre Company, and Canadian Stage Co-Production |
| Is My Microphone On? | Canadian Stage |
| Kamloopa | Soulpepper Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts |
| Lesson in Forgetting | Pleiades Theatre |
| Light | Tarragon Theatre |
| Mission Totally Possible | The Second City |
| MixTape | Crow’s Theatre |
| nowhen | a Canadian Stage production in collaboration with the Department of Theatre, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University, presented in partnership with SummerWorks |
| Orphan Song | Tarragon Theatre |
| Orphans for the Czar | Crow’s Theatre |
| Other People | A Canadian Stage Production |
| Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers | A Tarragon Theatre and Black Theatre Workshop co-production. Based on the world premiere production produced by b current. |
| Pipeline | Soulpepper Theatre Company |
| ROOM | Mirvish Productions in co-production with Covent Garden Productions and the Grand Theatre, London, Ontario |
| Solstice d’hiver | Théâtre français de Toronto and Le Groupe de la Veillée |
| The Herd | A Tarragon Theatre presentation, in association with Citadel Theatre and NAC Indigenous Theatre of a Tarragon Theatre/Persephone Theatre Commission |
| The Land Acknowledgement (As You Like It) | Crow’s Theatre |
| The Red Priest | Guild Festival Theatre |
| The Spectators’ Odyssey – o dell’Inferno | Produced by DopoLavoro Teatrale and TO Live in association with the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund. |
| Three Women of Swatow | Tarragon Theatre |
| Trojan Girls & The Outhouse of Atreus | An Immersive Theatre Experience from Outside the March and Factory Theatre in association with Neworld Theatre |
| What You Won’t Do For Love | Why Not Theatre presented by Luminato Festival |
| Where the Blood Mixes | Soulpepper Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts |
| White Girls in Moccasins | A manidoons collective + Buddies in Bad Times Theatre production |
| Wildfire | A Factory Production |
Independent Theatre Division
| 1184 | Phoenix Arts & Aga Khan Museum |
| A Tonic for Desperate Times | Theatre Gargantua |
| An IMM-Permanent Resident | Nautanki Bazaar as presented by Why Not Theatre’s RISER Toronto 2022 |
| Dancing with the Universe | REAson d’etre dance productions along side Harbourfont Centre |
| Deputy Prime Minister Collimore | Daresay Productions |
| Detroit | The Coal Mine Theatre |
| Don Valley Girls | Poetic License Creations, as part of Why Not Theatre’s RISER Toronto |
| Gloria | ARC in association with Crow’s Theatre |
| Italian Mime Suicide | Bad New Days |
| Salt-Water Moon | Guild Festival Theatre |
| Senior Counsel | Daresay Productions |
| TAOS (The Art of Storytelling) | Creative Mafia as presented by Why Not Theatre’s RISER Toronto 2022 |
| The Antipodes | The Coal Mine Theatre |
| The Cold War | VideoCabaret |
| The Home Project | The Howland Company |
| The House of Bernarda Alba | Modern Times Stage Company and Aluna Theatre |
| The Huns | One Four One Collective |
| Three Ordinary Men | Cahoots Theatre |
| True | Project Undertow |
| Two Minutes to Midnight | One Four One Collective |
Musical Theatre Division
| & Juliet | David Mirvish presents the Max Martin, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Jenny Petersson, Martin Dodd Production |
| Boy Falls From the Sky | David Mirvish and Past Future Productions |
| Divine Interventions | CORPUS Dance Projects |
| Dixon Road | The Musical Stage Company & Obsidian Theatre Company, in association with Canadian Stage |
| Into the Woods | Talk is Free Theatre |
| Killing Time: A Game Show Musical | Mixtape Projects |
| Sweeney Todd | Talk is Free Theatre |
| Til Then | Eclipse Theatre Company |
Opera Division
Cavalleria RusticanaToronto City OperaFantasmaCanadian Opera CompanyGould’s WallA Tapestry Opera and Maniac Star production presented by The Royal Conservatory of Music, in association with The Glenn Gould SchoolLa TraviataA Canadian Opera Company co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Lyric Opera of ChicagoR.U.R. A Torrent of LightA Tapestry Opera production in partnership with OCAD UniversityThe Magic FluteCanadian Opera CompanyThe Queen in MeCo-production by Canadian Opera Company, Amplified Opera, Nightwood Theatre, and Theatre Gargantua
Theatre for Young Audiences Division
| Alice in Wonderland | Guild Festival Theatre |
| Fireside Munsch (’21) | Fireside Stories |
| MOBY: A Whale of a Tale | Art & Water |
| MORE Fireside Munsch | Fireside Stories |
| Spoiiiiiiiiing | Harbourfront’s Junior Festival presents Kitt Johnson X-act |
Dance Division
| A Perfect Day | Citadel + Compagnie |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | The National Ballet of Canada |
| Alexa, Play a Sad Song (inTO focus/ dance: made in/fait au canada Festival) | Kendra Epik & princess productions |
| Aňoranza (Ayer y Hoy, Celebrating 40 Years!) | Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company |
| Ayer (Ayer y Hoy, Celebrating 40 Years!) | Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company |
| Crepuscular (Sharing the Stage: Programme A) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| Crypto | Côté Danse Co-presented by Canadian Stage and TOLive |
| Enter the Avatar State (inTO focus/ dance: made in/fait au canada Festival) | SaMel Tanz & princess productions |
| Face to Face | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Firewater Thunderbird Rising (Citadel Dance Mix 2021) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Five Angels on the Steps | REAson d’etre dance producitons |
| in a state of vanishing (Sharing the Stage: Programme B) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| In My Body | Co-Presented by dance Immersion, Canadian Stage and TO Live |
| Inter Alios (The Miserere Project) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| La bulle | CORPUS presented by Théâtre français de Toronto and Jamii |
| La Textura del Aire (Rondeňa) (Ayer y Hoy, Celebrating 40 Years!) | Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company |
| Legacy Tap Dance Concert | dance Immersion and Canadian Stage |
| MUKUTHÔ | Dance Immersion & Canadian Stage: Curatorial and Presenting Partners |
| New Tricks | Citadel + Compagnie |
| on air | Citadel + Compagnie |
| On Solid Ground (Winter Mixed Programme) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| Re:Imaginings: Time, Place an’ Movement | KasheDance |
| Reflejos del Tiempo (Sevillanas) (Ayer y Hoy, Celebrating 40 Years!) | Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company |
| Sadhana/Tarana | Pratibha Arts |
| Skyward (Winter Mixed Programme) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| Soul (Sharing the Stage: Programme A) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| standing on fishes (inTO focus/ dance: made in/fait au canada Festival) | Blue Ceiling Dance & princess productions |
| Swan Lake | The National Ballet of Canada |
| The High Heart (inTO focus/ dance: made in/fait au canada Festival) | David Earle Theatre & princess productions |
| The View From Here (Citadel Dance Mix 2021) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| themselves | Citadel + Compagnie |
| This is NOT a Remount (The Miserere Project) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Trase Pa (Sharing the Stage: Programme B) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| Volverán a Florecer (Caňa) (Ayer y Hoy, Celebrating 40 Years!) | Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company |
| Waves/Vagues (inTO focus/ dance: made in/fait au canada Festival) | Lua Shayenne Dance Company & princess productions |
| Wéi 成为 | Tiger Princess Dance Projects |
| welcome, we’ve been waiting | Toronto Dance Theatre |
Touring
| Bātardes | A Théātre Everest Production Presented by Theatre Passe Muraille |
| Creation Destruction | Animals of Distinction presented by the Luminato Festival |
| Crippled | A production by Power Productions Presented by Theatre Passe Muraille |
| Scored in Silence | A Theatre Passe Muraille presentation of a Chisato Minamimura production in collaboration with VibraFusionLab |
| Singulières | Théâtre français de Toronto and Crow’s Theatre |
| Sky Dancers | A’nó:wara Dance Theatre presented by Harbourfront Centre |