2022 Dora Award Winners
2022 Dora Award Winners
2022 Dora Award Winners
Wildfire leads General Theatre Division with 3 Doras including Outstanding Production,
Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Direction
Italian Mime Suicide scores high in the Independent Theatre Division with 5 Doras including
Outstanding Production, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Costume
Design and Outstanding Lighting
Sweeney Todd heads the Musical Theatre Division with 5 Dora Awards including Outstanding
Production, Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role and Leading Role, plus Outstanding
Direction and Outstanding Original Choreography
R.U.R A Torrent of Light picks up the most awards of the night with 6 Doras in the Opera
Division for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Outstanding
New Opera, Outstanding Musical Direction, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Achievement in Design
In My Body taps 4 Doras in Dance Division with Outstanding Production, Outstanding Original
Choreography, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble and Outstanding Achievement in
Design
MOBY: A Whale of a Tale picks up 4 Doras in the Theatre For Young Audiences Division for
Outstanding Production, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble
Sky Dancers collects the Outstanding Touring Production Dora for the Touring Division
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, produced and presented by the Toronto Alliance for the
Performing Arts (TAPA), had 235 total nominations and 100 eligible productions registered from
the extended time period of May 15, 2021, to August 15, 2022. The Pat and Tony Adams
Freedom Fund for the Arts provided $35,000 in cash prizes, with $1,000 for each
individually-named Dora Award recipient across all Dora Divisions (excluding Outstanding
Production and Outstanding Ensemble recipients).
And the Recipients of the 2022 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Are:
Below are the recipients of each category. An underline on multiple producer lists indicates the
TAPA member(s) company.
OPERA DIVISION
R.U.R. A Torrent of Light, Tapestry Opera production in partnership with OCAD University,
received 6 Doras leading this year’s award count. La Traviata, Canadian Opera Company
Co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, picks up 1 Dora Award
to close out the division.
DANCE DIVISION
With 7 nominations, In My Body, Co-presented by dance Immersion, Canadian Stage and TO
Live, takes home 4 Dora Awards to lead the Division. Legacy Tap Dance Concert, dance
Immersion and Canadian Stage and Sadhana/Tarana, Pratibha Arts, score 1 Dora each.
TOURING DIVISION
In a Dora Awards first, the recipient was acclaimed due to a single candidate out of 6 eligible
productions making it to the nominee round of voting. Sky Dancers, A'nó:wara Dance Theatre
presented by Harbourfront Centre, takes home the Outstanding Touring Production Award.
See the accompanying complete list of recipients. The full list is also available online at tapa.ca.
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42nd ANNUAL DORA MAVOR MOORE AWARDS :
The 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards show ceremony in-person at The Elgin and Winter
Garden Theatre Centre. The celebration was from 7:30 PM EST in the Elgin Theatre. Award
recipients were live-tweeted via the Dora Awards Twitter account.
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The Doras are named for Dora Mavor Moore (1888-1979), a well-loved teacher and director
who helped establish Canadian professional theatre in the 1930s and 1940s. Recognizing the
outstanding achievements in Toronto's performing arts industry, the Doras honour the creators
of numerous theatre, dance and opera productions annually in the following divisions: General
Theatre, Independent Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance, Opera, Theatre for Young Audiences
and Touring.
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards were founded on December 13, 1978, by a committee
convened by Millie Drain. On that date, Drain and the other founders (Ann Antkiw, Ronald
Bryden, Bill Glassco, Graham Harley, Leon Major, Sean Mulcahy, Peter Peroff, Heinar Piller,
Susan Rubes, Pat Stewart and Sylvia Tucker), decided to institute an award to recognize
outstanding achievements in Toronto theatre. Today, the Doras honour the creators and artists
of theatre, dance and opera productions annually in 46 categories over 7 divisions.
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards are administered by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
(TAPA). In addition to the Doras, other programs and services provided by TAPA include: Annual
Arts Day at the City, hipTIX (offering $5 tickets to students between the ages of 14 and 29),
citySPECIAL, the Commercial Theatre Development Fund, the Travel Retreat Initiatives
Program – TRIP, and the professional development TAPA Trade Series.
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