Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Direction (General Theatre)

The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play/Musical is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre.

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year Director Play Ref
1980 Guy Sprung Balconville and Paper Wheat [1]
Peter Froehlich Staller's Farm [2]
Ken Livingstone American Buffalo
George Luscombe Ain't Lookin'
1981 George F. Walker Theatre of the Film Noir [3]
William Lane Loose Ends [4]
Alan Scarfe The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
Ray Whelan Arms and the Man
1982 Richard Rose Tamara [5]
Jim Garrard Cold Comfort [6]
Guy Sprung Night and Day
Henry Tarvainen Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers
1983 Guy Sprung Translations [7]
Leon Major Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and Identity Crisis
Robin Phillips The Prisoner of Zenda
Guy Sprung Dream in High Park
1984 Bill Glassco Cloud Nine [8]
Derek Goldby, David Hemblen Delicatessen [9]
Ray Jewers Trafford Tanzi
Leon Major The Dining Room
1985 Derek Goldby Uncle Vanya [10]
Bill Glassco Salt-Water Moon [11]
Ken Livingstone 'night, Mother
Robin Phillips New World
Aaron Schwartz Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
1986 Richard Greenblatt The Miracle Worker [12]
Alexander Hausvater Ghetto [13]
Ken Livingstone Other Places
Andy McKim The Wedding Script
John Van Burek Hosanna
1987 Bob Baker B-Movie: The Play [14]
Dennis Foon Bedtimes and Bullies [15]
Jeff Henry The Bloodknot
Urjo Kareda, Andy McKim Aunt Dan and Lemon
John Van Burek Bonjour, La, Bonjour
1988 Larry Lillo A Lie of the Mind [16]
Bill Glassco Nothing Sacred [17]
Derek Goldby I Am Yours
Richard Greenblatt Detaining Mr. Trotsky
Robert Rooney Something in the Air
1989 Robert Lepage The Dragons Trilogy [18]
Denise Filiatrault Les Fridolinades [19]
Larry Lewis Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Richard Rose The Possibilities
Susan Wright Under the Skin

1990s

Year Director Play Ref
1990 JoAnn McIntyre The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Bob Baker Breaking the Code [20]
Derek Goldby The Father
Robert Lepage Echo
Richard Rose The Europeans
1991 Richard Monette Saint Joan
Richard Greenblatt Mirror Game
Peter Hinton Possible Worlds
Brian Richmond Lilies
John Van Burek La Maison Suspendue
1992 Neil Munro Hamlet
François Faucher Elvire Jouvet 40
Dennis Foon Naomi's Road
László Marton Three Sisters
Paulette Phillips Under the Influence
1993 Harold Prince Kiss of the Spider Woman
Maja Ardal Whale
Marti Maraden Fallen Angels
Duncan McIntosh Le Bal
Steven Pimlott Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1994 Mike Ockrent Crazy for You
Maja Ardal A Christmas Carol
John Bourgeois The Taming of the Shrew
Peter Hinton Abundance
Nicholas Hytner Miss Saigon
1995 Des McAnuff Tommy
Bob Baker Into the Woods
Marti Maraden Six Degrees of Separation
1996 Robert Lepage The Seven Streams of the River Ota
Maja Ardal Two Weeks with the Queen
Leah Cherniak The Diary of Anne Frank
Robert Lepage Elsinore
Gilles Maheu The Dead Souls
1997 Frank Galati Ragtime
Rob Bettinson Jolson
John Caird Jane Eyre
Marshall Pynkoski Don Giovanni
James Robinson Elektra
1998 Ian Prinsloo Patience
Daniel Brooks The Designated Mourner [21]
Leah Cherniak The Betrayal
Alisa Palmer The Quartet
Miles Potter Molly Sweeney
Richard Rose Inexpressible Island
George F. Walker Problem Child
1999 Soheil Parsa. Aurash Miles Potter The Drawer Boy
John MacLachlan Gray, Eric Peterson Billy Bishop Goes to War
Michael Hollingsworth The Life and Times of Brian Mulroney
Andy McKim Kilt
Miles Potter The Drawer Boy
Guillermo Verdecchia, Daniel Brooks Insomnia

2000s

Year Director Play Ref
2000 László Marton Platonov
Daniel Brooks Endgame
Daniel Brooks Faust
Morris Panych, Wendy Gorling The Overcoat
Sarah Stanley Beaver
2001 Ian McElhinney Stones in His Pockets
Blake Brooker, Denise Clarke Thunderstruck
Daniel Brooks Betrayal
Dennis Garnhum Slavs!
Pierre Tétrault Ghost Train
2002 Jim Warren The Bald Soprano
Daniel Brooks The Good Life
Rosemary Dunsmore Fighting Words
Dennis Garnhum Skylight
Daniel MacIvor In On It
Kelly Thornton This Hotel
2003 Morris Panych Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
Chris Abraham Russell Hill
Leah Cherniak The Miracle Worker
Brian Quirt Through the Eyes
Albert Schultz A Chorus of Disapproval
2004 Richard Rose Remnants [22]
Guy Mignault Le Visiteur [23]
Larry Moss The Syringa Tree
Richard Rose Simpl
Sarah Stanley Restitution: An Irish-Canadian Rhapsody
2005 Ken Gass The Leisure Society
Daniel Brooks Bigger Than Jesus
Daniel Brooks Half-Life
Allen MacInnis Blue Planet
Joseph Ziegler Hamlet
2006 Nigel Shawn Williams The Monument
Daniel MacIvor A Beautiful View [24]
Weyni Mengesha blood.claat - one womban story
Richard Rose Leo
Joseph Ziegler Our Town
2007 Richard Rose Scorched [25]
Chris Abraham Insomnia
Daniel Brooks Here Lies Henry
Ted Dykstra Leaving Home
Jennifer Tarver Crave
2008 Alisa Palmer Top Girls
Philip Akin Intimate Apparel
Micheline Chevrier The December Man
Diana Leblanc Rose
Jean-Stéphane Roy The Misanthrope
2009 Ed Roy Agokwe
Chris Abraham I, Claudia
Jason Byrne Festen
Denise Clarke Radio Play
Weyni Mengesha A Raisin in the Sun

2010s

Year Playwright Title Ref
2010 Morris Panych Parfumerie
Adam Brazier Assassins [26]
Alan Dilworth If We Were Birds
Graham McLaren Hamlet
Richard Rose Courageous
2011 Brendan Healy Blasted
Philip Akin Ruined
Allen MacInnis A Year With Frog and Toad
Gina Wilkinson Wide Awake Hearts
Nigel Shawn Williams Brothel #9
2012 Philip Akin Topdog/Underdog
Alan Dilworth Crash
Ross Manson The Golden Dragon
Robert McQueen Caroline, or Change
Kelly Thornton The Penelopiad
2013 Chris Abraham The Little Years
Chris Abraham Someone Else
Brendan Healy Arigato, Tokyo
Evalyn Parry Obaaberima
Albert Schultz The Crucible
2014 Albert Schultz Of Human Bondage
Brendan Healy Pig [27]
Weyni Mengesha Lungs
Adam Paolozza The Double
Richard Rose A God in Need of Help
2015 Eda Holmes Tom at the Farm [28]
Alan Dilworth Twelve Angry Men [29]
Gísli Örn Garðarsson The Heart of Robin Hood
Ravi Jain Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Richard Rose An Enemy of the People
2016 Ravi Jain Salt-Water Moon [30]
Ashlie Corcoran Mustard
Matjash Mrozewski, Estelle Shook Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom
Peter Hinton Bombay Black
Ravi Jain We Are Proud to Present...
2017 Philip Akin "Master Harold" ...and the Boys
Nina Lee Aquino acquiesce
Ashlie Corcoran KISS
Alan Dilworth Incident at Vichy
Weyni Mengesha Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III)
2018 Mitchell Cushman Jerusalem
Alan Dilworth Idomeneus [31]
Richard Rose Hamlet
Djanet Sears For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Ted Witzel LULU v.7 // aspects of a femme fatale
2019 Nina Lee Aquino School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play [32]
Brendan Healy Every Brilliant Thing
Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape
Meg Roe Middletown
Guillermo Verdecchia The Royale

2020s

Year Playwright Title Ref
2020 Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu The Brothers Size [33]
Chris Abraham Julius Caesar [34]
Mitchell Cushman The Flick
Jani Lauzon Almighty Voice and His Wife
Weyni Mengesha A Streetcar Named Desire
2021 No ceremony held due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on theatre production in 2020. [35]
2022 Soheil Parsa Wildfire [36]
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster Three Women of Swatow [37]
Weyni Mengesha Pipeline
Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu Is God Is
John Tiffany Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2023 Cherissa Richards Red Velvet [38]
Philip Akin Maanomaa, My Brother
Marie Farsi Fifteen Dogs
Weyni Mengesha Queen Goneril
Alisa Palmer Fall On Your Knees, Part Two: The Diary
2024 Andrew Kushnir Bad Roads [39]
Chris Abraham The Master Plan [40]
Seth Bockley King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild
Brendan Healy The Inheritance, Pt. 1
Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

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