When
June 30, 2025 at 7:30pm
Where
Meridian Hall, 1 Front Street East
What - Programme
Host Peter Fernandes
The annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrate excellence on Toronto stages and are the oldest and largest professional theatre, dance and opera awards program in Canada. Founded in 1979, with the first ceremony occurring in 1981, the Dora’s recently marked a 45 year anniversary. The Dora Awards evolve constantly, adjusting and adapting to changes in the broader performing arts industry and the needs of the TAPA membership. There are currently 43 award categories across 7 distinct “divisions.”
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All Registered Productions 2023-2024 (24-25 list coming soon!)
General Theatre Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| 3 Fingers Back | Tarragon Theatre & lemonTree Creations |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | A Canadian Stage Production |
| A Poem for Rabia | A Tarragon Theatre Production in association with Nightwood Theatre and Undercurrent Creations |
| A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney | An Outside the March and Soulpepper Theatre Production |
| Armadillos | A Factory Theatre World Premiere Production |
| As I Must Live It | A Theatre Passe Muraille and Modern Times Stage Co-Production |
| Bad Roads | A Crow’s Theatre Production |
| Casey and Diana | Soulpepper Theatre and the Stratford Festival |
| Chaos Menu: Disorder Up! | The Second City |
| CONVICTIONS | Théâtre français de Toronto |
| El Terremoto | Tarragon Theatre |
| Guilt (A Love Story) | Tarragon Theatre |
| Here Lies Henry | Factory Theatre |
| In Seven Days | Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company Co-Produced with The Grand Theatre |
| King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild | Soulpepper & TRIA Theatre |
| La Bête | Talk is Free Theatre |
| Les Filles du roi | Le Théâtre français de Toronto |
| Letters From Max, a ritual | A Necessary Angel Theatre Production |
| Mad Madge | Nightwood Theatre in association with VideoCabaret |
| Monster | Factory Theatre |
| No One’s Special at the Hot Dog Cart | A Theatre Passe Muraille and Erroneous Productions Co-Production |
| No Save Points | An Outside the March Production Presented by Starvox Entertainment In Association with Modern Times Company |
| Perceptual Archaeology (or How to Travel Blind) | A Crow’s Theatre and Fire and Rescue Team Co-Production |
| shaniqua in abstraction | A Crow’s Theatre Production in Association with paul watson productions and Obsidian Theatre Company |
| She’s Not Special | Tarragon Theatre and Nightwood Theatre |
| Sizwe Banzi is Dead | Soulpepper Theatre Company |
| speaking of sneaking | a groundwork redux and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre production, in association with Obsidian Theatre |
| The Inheritance Part 1 | A Canadian Stage Production |
| The Inheritance Part 2 | A Canadian Stage Production |
| The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time | A Tarragon Theatre/NAC presentation of the NAC/Neptune Theatre production |
| The Lehman Trilogy | A Canadian Stage Production |
| The Master Plan | A Crow’s Theatre Production |
| Three Sisters | Soulpepper Theatre Company & Obsidian Theatre Company |
| Topdog/Underdog | A Canadian Stage Production |
| White Muscle Daddy | Pencil Kit Productions + Buddies in Bad Times Theatre |
| Wildwoman | Soulpepper Theatre Company |
| Withrow Park | Tarragon Theatre |
| Woking Phoenix | A Theatre Passe Muraille and Silk Bath Collective Co-Production |
| Women of the Fur Trade | Native Earth Performing Arts In Association with National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre & Great Canadian Theatre Company |
Independent Theatre Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| (EVERYONE I LOVE HAS) A TERRIBLE FATE (BEFALL THEM) | VideoCabaret |
| Access Me | Boys in Chairs Collective |
| Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches | That Theatre Company |
| Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika | That Theatre Company |
| Appropriate | Coal Mine Theatre |
| Blake and Clay’s Gay Agenda at Comedy on Queen | Gay for Pay Productions and Bad Dog Theatre Company |
| BOOM X | WYRD Productions |
| Bremen Town | Bremen Town Collective, in Association with the Next Stage Festival |
| Christopher Marlowe’s DOCTOR FAUSTUS | Dandelion Theatre |
| Dead Elephants | Good Old Neon |
| DEATH: a love story | Dandelion Theatre |
| Doc Wuthergloom’s Here There Be Monsters | Eldritch Theatre |
| Earworm | Nowadays Theatre Company Production in Association with Crow’s Theatre |
| Fiji | Icarus Theatre |
| Four Minutes Twelve Seconds | A Studio 180 Theatre production in association with Tarragon Theatre |
| GOD OF CARNAGE | The Toronto Stage Company |
| Hagar | Hagar Collective, Canadian Arabic Orchestra – Maple Arts, and Pleiades Theatre |
| Heartless | Favour The Brave Collective |
| Heroes of the Fourth Turning | A Howland Company and Crow’s Theatre Co-Production |
| Hypothetical Baby | Rachel Cairns and the Howland Company |
| MacBeth: “A Tale Told by an Idiot” | Eldritch Theatre |
| Migraaaants | Two Thousand Feet Up |
| On the Other Side of the Sea | Aluna Theatre |
| otîhêw | Shakespeare in Action |
| Our Flag Means [Blank] | Bad Dog Theatre Company |
| Prophecy Fog | The Coal Mine Theatre in Association with Paper Canoe Projects |
| Quartet | Other Hearts in association with Video Cabaret |
| Richard Three | Shakespeare in the Ruff |
| Rockabye | Actors Repertory Company |
| Sea Wall | The One Four One Collective, In Association with Bright Young Things & Quiet Things Creative |
| Spaciousness | Incongruent Media Inc. and the City of Toronto |
| Suddenly Last Summer | Riot King |
| SwordPlay | Sex T-Rex & Bad Dog Comedy Theatre |
| The Drowning Girls | Guild Festival Theatre |
| The Effect | The Coal Mine Theatre |
| The House at Poe Corner | Eldritch Theatre |
| The Rage of Narcissus | Expandido Theatre Group |
| The Sound Inside | The Coal Mine Theatre |
| The Tempest | Theatre Rusticle |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | Shakespeare BASH’d |
| Things We Lost in The Fire | Promise Productions |
| Three Men in a Boat | Guild Festival Theatre |
| Tyson’s Song | Pleiades Theatre |
| Voiceless | Veylān Film and Theatre Production |
| WaterFall | Theatre Gargantua |
Musical Theatre Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| Angel’s Bone | Loose Tea Music Theatre, Array Music, Sound the Alarm Music Theatre |
| Canoe | An Unsettled Scores production in collaboration with Native Earth Performing Arts, The Toronto Consort and Theatre Passe Muraille |
| Chris, Mrs. | Boldly Productions |
| De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail | Soulpepper Theatre Company |
| Dion: A Rock Opera | Coal Mine Theatre |
| Dragon’s Tale | Tapestry Opera and Soundstreams |
| Holiday! An Improvised Musical | Bad Dog Theatre Company |
| Inge(new) – In search of a musical | Theatre Myth Collective |
| Kelly v. Kelly | The Musical Stage Company, in association with Canadian Stage |
| Let’s Dance! The Musical | Terra Bruce Productions |
| Merrily We Roll Along | Shifting Ground Collective |
| Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | A Crow’s Theatre and The Musical Stage Company Co-production |
| Ordinary Days | Shifting Ground Collective |
| Pomegranate | A new co-production by Canadian Opera Company and Vancouver Opera |
| Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha | Volcano in association with the Canadian Opera Company, Moveable Beast, and Soulpepper Theatre Company, co-presented by Luminato and TO Live |
| The Guide to Being Fabulous | Soulpepper Theatre Company |
| The Wild Rovers | Terra Bruce Productions |
| Universal Child Care | Quote Unquote Collective commissioned by BroadStage, in association with Nightwood Theatre, Why Not Theatre and the National Arts Centre’s Creation Fund, presented by Canadian Stage |
Opera Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| Angel’s Bone | Loose Tea Music Theatre, Array Music, Sound the Alarm Music Theatre |
| Canoe | An Unsettled Scores production in collaboration with Native Earth Performing Arts, The Toronto Consort and Theatre Passe Muraille |
| Don Giovanni | Canadian Opera Company presents co-production of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Gran Theatre del Liceu; The Israeli Opera; and Houston Grand Operadian Opera Company |
| Don Pasquale | Canadian Opera Company presents Scottish Opera production |
| Dragon’s Tale | Tapestry Opera and Soundstreams |
| Fidelio | Canadian Opera Company presents San Francisco Opera production |
| La Bohème | Canadian Opera Company co-production with Houston Grand Opera and San Francisco Opera |
| Medea | Canadian Opera Company co-production with The Metropolitan Opera, Greek National Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| Pomegranate | A new co-production by Canadian Opera Company and Vancouver Opera |
| Rocking Horse Winner | Tapestry Opera |
| Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha | Volcano in association with the Canadian Opera Company, Moveable Beast, and Soulpepper Theatre Company, co-presented by Luminato and TO Live |
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Canadian Opera Company presents English National Opera production |
| Tosca | Canadian Opera Company |
Theatre for Young Audiences Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| Emilio’s A Million Chameleons | The Pucking Fuppet Co., presented by Roseneath Theatre |
| It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play | Young People’s Theatre |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls | Roseneath Theatre |
| Le Roi poubelle | Théâtre français de Toronto and Vox Théâtre |
| Les Zinspiré.e.s : Onze calme et on continue | Théâtre français de Toronto |
| Old Man and the River | WeeFestival of Arts & Culture |
| Outside | Roseneath Theatre |
| Pin-Pin The Eggsplorer | Twisted Dog Theatre |
| Pop! Pop! | Carousel Players presented by Young People’s Theatre |
| Quest for the Moon | WeeFestival of Arts & Culture |
| Storybook Search | Bad Hats Theatre |
| Sweeter | a Cahoots Theatre Production in Association with Roseneath Theatre |
| The Fixing Girl | Young People’s Theatre |
| The Money Tree | Roseneath Theatre |
| Truth | Young People’s Theatre |
| Unwritten: The Improv Show | Young People’s Theatre |
Dance Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| Agrimony (Unclearing) | The Chimera Project Dance Theatre |
| ALIENS (2023/24 Spring Double Bill) | Toronto Dance Theatre |
| Altar’d (Smith Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| Amor | Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company |
| Bear | Citadel + Compagnie |
| between me and you | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Black in Canada | Artists in Motion, presented by the Next Stage Theatre Festival |
| BODY (Binet Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| CHAMPIONESS | DanceWorks presents SaMel Tanz |
| Cymatix (Citadel Spring Mix – Programme 1) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Deciphers | Harbourfront Centre and DanceWorks co-present Naishi Wang & Jean Abreu |
| Emma Bovary (November Mixed Programme) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| FACE RIDER (Winter Double Bill) | Toronto Dance Theatre |
| FRONTIERS | FRONTIÈRES (Lua Shayenne double bill) | Lua Shayenne Dance Company |
| Half an Hour of Our Time (Living Dances) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| hard wire | Citadel + Compagnie and Bare Nerve |
| KIOKU NO MA (2023/24 Spring Double Bill) | Toronto Dance Theatre |
| L-E-A-K | Sara Porter Productions |
| L’ENCRE NOIRE (Morrison Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| MÀSCARA (dance Immersion Double-Bill Presentation) | dance Immersion |
| Maybe we Land (Citadel Dance Mix) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Moving Parts | DanceWorks and Dusk Dances present Fujiwara Dance Inventions |
| naⱡa (Citadel Spring Mix – Programme 2) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| NOMADA | Canadian Stage and DanceWorks present Diana Lopez Soto’s NOMADA |
| Odd-Sensual (Winter Double Bill) | Toronto Dance Theatre |
| Ojalá… (Citadel Dance Mix) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| PAJAROJITO (Citadel Spring Mix – Programme 2) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Passion (November Mixed Programme) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| Pillar of You (Citadel Dance Mix) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| PUS | Citadel + Compagnie |
| ReAWaken (Smith Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| Resonances of a Warrior Boy (Smith Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| Searching for Eastman | wind in the leaves collective |
| SKéN:NEN | Kaha:wi Dance Theatre presented by TO Live |
| Soft (Unclearing) | The Chimera Project Dance Theatre |
| Solo (not solo) Water Study (Binet Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| Soudain l’Hiver Dernier (Living Dances) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| Spectrum of Connection | Little Pear Garden Dance Company |
| Surrendered Spirits (dance Immersion Double-Bill Presentation) | dance Immersion & CinnaMoon Collective |
| The Laundry List | Vintage Taps |
| The Man in Black (Living Dances) | Citadel + Compagnie |
| The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark | Côté Danse, Ex Machina, Show One Productions |
| this identity: woven (Binet Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| trillionth i | Tribal Crackling Wind |
| Unfold Attachments (Binet Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| UtopiVerse (Winter Triple Bill) | The National Ballet of Canada |
| WATER SPIRIT (Lua Shayenne double bill) | Lua Shayenne Dance Company |
| You Touch Me (Morrison Series – dance: made in / fait au canada) | princess productions |
| Young, Gifted & Jazz by Holla Jazz | dance Immersion in association with Canadian Stage |
Touring Division
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| Assembly Hall | Created by Kidd Pivot Presented by Canadian Stage |
| Echoing Crest | WeeFestival of Arts & Culture presents les Chemins Errants |
| entre chien et loup | Citadel + Compagnie presents plastic orchid factory |
| G’Zaagiin maleńki – I Promise You a Forest | WeeFestival of Arts & Culture presents le Voyageurs immobiles |
| Jungle Book reimagined | Created by Akram Khan Company Presented by Canadian Stage |
| Kamuyot | Kamuyot, by Ohad Naharid. Performed by Charlotte Ballet, presented by Fall for Dance North |
| L’Amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie | PRESENTED BY THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO IN ASSOCIATION WITH CROW’S THEATRE PRODUCED BY NOUS THÉÂTRE |
| Message In A Bottle | TO Live Presents A Sadler’s Wells & Universal Music UK Production |
| Mononk Jules | An Illusions Fabuleuses Productions Presented by Théâtre français de Toronto |
| Näss (People) | Näss by Fouad Boussouf. Presented by Harbourfront Centre as part of Torque 2023-24 |
| Omaagomaan | Produced by Waawaate Fobister, Presented by Native Earth Performing Arts |
| Pinocchio | Harbourfront Centre presents Teater Patrasket |
| Stations | Harbourfront Centre presents Fou Glorieux |
| String | WeeFestival of Arts & Culture presents le Mouton Carré |
| Swan Lakes and Minus 16 | Harboufront Centre |
| The Rocky Mountain Special | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents a Tiffany Thomas production |
| The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes | Back to Back Theatre presented by Canadian Stage |
| Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish | Young People’s Theatre presents Axis Theatre |
| Through My Eyes | Young People’s Theatre presents Bouge de là |
| X (DIX) | Crow’s Theatre presents Côté Danse |
| ZOOOM | Harbourfront Centre presents Patch Theatre |
Innovative Experience
| Production | Producer/Presenter |
| asses.masses | Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim, presented by The Theatre Centre |
| Benevolence Hall | Broadleaf Creative with Why Not Theatre and Toronto History Museums |
| Family Portrait | Barrowland Ballet, presented by Harbourfront Centre |
| work.txt | Nathan Ellis, presented by The Theatre Centre |
Born in Glasgow in 1888, teacher and director Dora Mavor Moore arrived in Toronto eight years later. She devoted her long life to creating theatre and theatre companies in her new home. Her contributions to Canadian professional theatre are immeasurable. Dora Mavor Moore was the founder of the University Extension Players and the Hart House Touring Players with the innovative playwright and teacher Herman Voaden.
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards is a program of 