TAPA announces 2025 Dora Mavor Moore Award Recipients
Productions with Multiple Award Wins Include:
Mahabharata, Last Landscape, Mukashi, Mukashi (Once Upon a Time), People, Places and Things,
everything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t, so here it is now), Big Time Miss, La Reine-garçon, and
Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White
Outstanding Individual Performance Awards went to Miriam Fernandes,
Alexandra Laferrière, Louise Lambert, Kirsten MacKinnon, Malachi McCaskill,
and Sully Malaeb Proulx
Toronto, ON (June 30, 2025) – The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)
announced the recipients of the 45th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards presented by
the Romano D’Andrea Foundation. The Awards were presented on Monday, June 30 at an
evening ceremony at Meridian Hall hosted by actor Peter Fernandes.
“For forty-five years, the Dora Awards have celebrated the world-class excellence that our
performing arts sector in Toronto can offer. This has been a banner year for the Awards,
honouring an unstoppable amount of talent in our city across divisions of Theatre, Opera, and
Dance.
My heart soars specifically for the artists who received their first nominations or first awards this
year; twenty-six individual artists and companies received their first ever Doras, some of whom
took home multiple in their divisions. I hope these awards and nominations prove as
monumental to these artists and companies as they have to the countless artists who have been
celebrated since the first Awards in 1980, and that we continue to see their names in lights
across our city, our province, and on national and international stages.”
-Victor Pokinko, Producer, Dora Awards
The Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award, sponsored by Now Toronto and voted on by the
public, went to The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Shifting Ground Collective),
which also won Dora Awards for Outstanding Production and Creative Direction in the Musical
Theatre division.
This year’s Silver Ticket Award, presented annually by TAPA to an individual who has made an
outstanding contribution to the stage in the Toronto area, went to actor/director/playwright and
Founding Artistic Director of Aluna Theatre, Beatriz Pizano.
The Dora Awards, Canada’s largest and oldest awards program, celebrates the incredible talent
within Toronto’s professional theatre, dance, and opera communities.
This year there were 225 nominations across 43 gender-inclusive award categories within seven
divisions reflecting the remarkable artistry of the 2024-2025 season. This year’s nominations
encompassed 81 shows from 59 registered companies.
Below are the recipients for this year’s awards in the general, independent, musical theatre,
theatre for young audiences, opera, dance, and touring divisions.
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