1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Explained

The 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrated excellence in theatre from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.^{[1] [2]}

Winners and nominees

General Theatre Division

Production	Original Play
Spring Awakening – CentreStage Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre	Jessica by Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths Islands by Margaret Hollingsworth – New Play Centre by Maristella Roca – Acting Company Papers by Allan Stratton – Tarragon Theatre The Wedding Script by Don Hannah – Tarragon Theatre
Leading Actor	Leading Actress
Stephen Ouimette for Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Eran Productions Eric Peterson for The Double Bass – Theatre Passe Muraille R. H. Thomson for Hamlet – Toronto Free Theatre Brian Torpe for As Is – Toronto Free Theatre and Shaw Festival Jean-Guy Viau for Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur	Martha Burns for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre Nancy Beatty for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre Nora McLellan for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Patricia Phillips for And a Nightingale Sang – East Side Players Joanna Schellenberg for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Roland Hewgill for A Moon for the Misbegotten – Tarragon Theatre Sean McCann for Blue City Slammers – VTR Productions Avery Saltzman for The Treehouse at the Edge of the World – Young People's Theatre Mark Saunders for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre Keith Thomas for Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions	Frances Hyland for The Heiress Anne Anglin for Blue City Slammers – VTR Productions Helen Hughes for Islands – New Play Centre Diana Leblanc for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Mary Ellen Mahoney for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre
Direction	Scenic Design
Richard Greenblatt for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre Alexander Hausvater for Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions Ken Livingstone for Other Places – Tarragon Theatre Andy McKim for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre John Van Burek for Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur	Michael Levine for Spring Awakening – CentreStage Reginald Bronskill for Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions John Ferguson for The Treehouse at the Edge of the World – Young People's Theatre Adam Kolodziej for Hamlet – Toronto Free Theatre Cameron Porteous for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre
Costume Design	Lighting Design
Michael Levine for Spring Awakening – CentreStage Shawn Kerwin for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre Sue LePage for The Wedding Script – Tarragon Theatre Cameron Porteous for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Shadowland for The History of the Village of the Small Huts: The British – VideoCabaret and Theatre Passe Muraille	Robert Thomson for Spring Awakening – CentreStage Louise Guinand for A Moon for the Misbegotten – Tarragon Theatre Kevin Fraser for Farther West – Tarragon Theatre Jim Plaxton for The Treehouse at the Edge of the World – Young People's Theatre Steven Hawkins for The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre
Choreography
Christopher House for Green Evening, Clear and Warm – Toronto Dance Theatre Conrad Alexandrowicz for Auto-da-Fé – Dancemakers Bill James for Atlas Moves Watching

Musical Theatre or Revue Division

Production	Original Musical
The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre	The Secret Garden by Joan MacLeod and Stephen McNeff – COMUS Music Theatre Bordering on Madness, or Who's Tory Now – Second City The Moose That Roared by Jim Betts – Young People's Theatre
Actor	Actress
Victor A. Young for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Steven Bush for Bad Apples – Mixed Company Theatre David Switzer for Half Past the Eighties – FASS Theatre Company	Allison Grant for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre Linda Kash for Bordering on Madness, or Who's Tory Now – Second City Camilla Scott for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre
Direction	Scenic Design
Christopher Newton for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Edward Love for A... My Name Is Alice – Schwarz/Sewell Productions Kelly Robinson for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre	Mary Kerr for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Michael Cooper, Robin Muller and Jim Plaxton for The Thunder, Perfect Mind – Toronto Free Theatre Leslie Macauley for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre
Costume Design	Lighting Design
Mary Kerr for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Leslie Macauley for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre David Gibb for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre	Jeffrey Dallas for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Ben Cekuta for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre Stephen Ross for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre
Musical Direction	Choreography
Chris Donison and Roger Perkins for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Don Horsburugh and David Warrack for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre Brahm Goldhamer for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre	Diane Nyland for Nunsense – Nunsense of Canada Bob Ainslie for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Brian Foley for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre

Theatre for Young Audiences Division

See also

• 40th Tony Awards
• 1986 Laurence Olivier Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominees . 13 April 2021 . 29 May 2022 . Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.
2. Web site: Dora Mavor Moore Award Recipients . 13 April 2021 . 29 May 2022 . Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.