The 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Awards

Having announced the nominees for the 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Awards (or Doras) earlier this month, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) held its awards ceremony Monday, June 28 at the St. Lawrence Centre’s Bluma Appel Theatre. Hosted by CBC Radio's Jian Ghomeshi, the Doras recognize over 200 theatre, dance and opera productions annually, in the categories of General Theatre, Independent Theatre, Dance, Opera and Theatre for Young Audiences.

The three-hour ceremony began with a medley of relevant musical numbers, including The Princess and the Handmaiden, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, and The Legend of the Toxic Avenger. Soulpepper, Luminato, Tarragon and Theatrefront each came away with four awards. Theatrefront won all of its awards for The Mill, which took Outstanding Production and three design awards in the Independent Production division, where The Turn of the Screw won the acting and directing categories. Robert Lepage's work won two prizes, for Canadian Opera Company's The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, and for the nine-hour Luminato production of Lipsynch. Soulpepper's Parfumerie won three awards in the General Theatre diviion including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction, while Soulpepper co-founder Diego Matamoros won for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? .

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complete list of 2010 Dora winners

GENERAL THEATRE PRODUCTION DIVISION
 
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
Parfumerie,  Soulpepper Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING TOURING PRODUCTION
Lipsynch, Luminato presents Ex Machina

OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY
Michael Healey, Courageous

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY / MUSICAL
Morris Panych, Parfumerie

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE
Diego Matamoros, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE
Tara Rosling, If We Were Birds

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE / ENSEMBLE
Maurice Dean Wint, Courageous

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SET DESIGN
Ken MacDonald, Parfumerie

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN
Martha Mann, The Marriage of Figaro

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGN
Andrea Lundy, Hamlet

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN/COMPOSITION
Thomas Ryder Payne, If We Were Birds

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Jonathon Feng Han; Alyssa Xiaoli Wang; Chen Jiao; Wen Qiqi, Monkey King 

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTION
Johannes Debus, The Flying Dutchman

MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTION DIVISION

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
Assassins, BirdLand Theatre and Talk is Free Theatre

OUTSTANDING NEW MUSICAL / OPERA
R Murray Schaefer, The Children's Crusade

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE
Jeff Lillico, The Light in the Piazza

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE
Louise Pitre, The Toxic Avenger Musical

OPERA DIVISION

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, Canadian Opera Company/Festival d'Aix-en-Provence/Opéra national de Lyon in collaboration with Ex Machina

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
Julie Makerov, The Flying Dutchman

INDEPENDENT THEATRE PRODUCTION DIVISION

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
The Mill, Theatrefront in association with the Young Centre for the Performing Arts

OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY OR NEW MUSICAL
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Gas Girls

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION
Vikki Anderson, The Turn of the Screw

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE
Clinton Walker, The Turn of the Screw

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE
Christine Horne, The Turn of the Screw

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A FEATURED ROLE /ENSEMBLE
The Ensemble, Spent

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SET DESIGN
Gillian Gallow, The Mill

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN
Dana Osborne, The Mill

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGN
Andrea Lundy, The Mill

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN / COMPOSITION
David Atkinson, The Belle of Winnipeg

THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES DIVISION

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
In This World, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People presents Youtheatre

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
Natasha Greenblatt, Get Yourself Home Skyler James

DANCE DIVISION 

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
Shoot the Moon/Wings of Wax/The Second Person, Luminato presents Nederlands Dans Theater

OUTSTANDING NEW CHOREOGRAPHY
Heidi Strauss, this time

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
Brendan Wyatt, this time

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN/COMPOSITION
Richard Sacks in collaboration with Tuvshinjargal Dandinjav, Bat-Orshikh, Batmend Baasankhw and Eddy Robinson, Tono

SPECIAL AWARDS

BARBARA HAMILTON MEMORIAL AWARD
(for excellence and performing arts advocacy)
R.H. Thomson

LEONARD McHARDY AND JOHN HARVEY AWARD
(for administrative theatre employees)
Natasha Parsons

PAULINE McGIBBON AWARD
(for a member of Ontario's professional theatre community in the early stages of his or her career who has displayed a unique talent and a potential for excellence)
Lokki Ma

SILVER TICKET AWARD
(for outstanding contribution to the development of Canadian theatre)
Philip Akin, Obsidian Theatre

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Rock of Ages