The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Performer (General Theatre) is an annual Canadian theatre award, presented as part of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards to honour the year's best performance in a leading role in a stage production in the Toronto theatre market.
At the first awards in 1980, a single ungendered category was presented, with two winners. The following year, separate awards were presented for Best Leading Actor and Best Leading Actress, which remained in place until TAPA announced in 2018 that they would return to presenting ungendered acting categories.[1]
Winners and nominees
Year | Actress | Title | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
1980 | Linda Griffiths | Maggie and Pierre | [2] |
Viola Léger | La Sagouine | ||
Andrew Gillies | Strawberry Fields | [3] | |
Michael Hogan | Something Red | ||
Dan MacDonald | American Buffalo | ||
Fiona Reid | Born Yesterday | ||
Wenna Shaw | The Relapse | ||
R. H. Thomson | Judgement | ||
From 1981 to 2019 see Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actor (General Theatre) and Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre). | |||
2019 | Virgilia Griffith | Harlem Duet | [4] |
Lovell Adams-Gray | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | [5] | |
Sarah Afful | Orlando | ||
Maev Beaty | Secret Life of a Mother | ||
Yolanda Bonnell | bug | ||
Vivien Endicott-Douglas | Guarded Girls | ||
Natasha Mumba | School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play | ||
Gray Powell | Middletown | ||
2020 | Anand Rajaram | Buffoon | [6] |
Maev Beaty | August: Osage County | ||
Saïd Benyoucef | Besbouss | ||
Daren A. Herbert | Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train | ||
Xavier Lopez | Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train | ||
Durae McFarlane | The Flick | ||
Nancy Palk | August: Osage County | ||
Amy Rutherford | A Streetcar Named Desire | ||
2021 | No ceremony held due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on theatre production in 2020. | [7] | |
2022 | Alexis Gordon | Room | [8] |
Cliff Cardinal | The Land Acknowledgment (As You Like It) | [9] | |
Carolyn Fe | Three Women of Swatow | ||
Tony Ofori | Pipeline | ||
Oyin Oladejo | Is God Is | ||
Zorana Sadiq | MixTape | ||
Vanessa Sears | Is God Is | ||
Hannah Spear | Mission Totally Possible | ||
2023 | Dan Mousseau | Prodigal | [10] |
Virgilia Griffith | Our Place | ||
Deborah Hay | Fall On Your Knees Part Two: The Diary | ||
Ali Kazmi | Behind the Moon | ||
Allan Louis | Red Velvet | ||
Ahmed Moneka | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | ||
Sophia Walker | Our Place | ||
Bahia Watson | Uncle Vanya |
References
- ↑ "Dora Mavor Moore Awards to adopt gender-neutral performance categories". CBC Arts, April 25, 2018.
- ↑ Ray Conlogue, "Dora Mavor Moore Awards suffer from stage fright". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1981.
- ↑ Gina Mallet, "Controversial Bent set for Toronto run". Toronto Star, January 23, 1981.
- ↑ Brad Wheeler, "Female playwrights win big at Dora Awards". The Globe and Mail, June 25, 2019.
- ↑ Debra Yeo, "Dora Awards go gender neutral for 40th edition: First show of its kind in Canada to adopt fully inclusive policy". Toronto Star, May 29, 2019.
- ↑ Smith, Mae (June 29, 2020). "2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
- ↑ "Dora Awards honour lifetime achievement in theatre as COVID-19 shuts down live shows: Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrates lifetime contributions after COVID-19 pandemic shut down live performances". The Globe and Mail, June 16, 2021.
- ↑ Joshua Chong, "‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Italian Mime Suicide’ and ‘Wildfire’ win big at 2022 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, September 19, 2022.
- ↑ Aisling Murphy, "Nomination Announcements: 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards". Intermission Magazine, August 29, 2022.
- ↑ Hélène Crowley, "Announcing the 2023 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine, June 27, 2023.
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