Canadian theatre award
The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Independent Theatre is a Canadian theatre award, presented as part of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards to honour the year's best new play by a Canadian playwright which had its premiere in the Toronto theatre market in the previous year.
The award was first presented in 1988 as an award for small theatre productions. In 1993, a separate award for mid-sized theatre was introduced, with the definitions set at 200 seats or less for small theatres and 200 to 500 seats for midsize theatres.[1] The awards were presented alongside each other to different plays until 1997; in 1998, the awards were merged as a single award for independent theatre production.
Winners and nominees [ edit ] Year Playwright Title Ref 1990 Sky Gilbert The Whore's Revenge: A Victorian Melodrama [6] Daniel MacIvor , Ken McDougall , Edward Roy White Trash Blue Eye [7] Tony Nardi A Modo Suo (A fable) Martha Ross Dr. Dapertutto Raymond Storey The Saints and the Apostles 1991 Normand Canac-Marquis , translated by Louison Danis The Cézanne Syndrome [8] Daniel Brooks , Don McKellar , Tracy Wright Red Tape [9] Daniel MacIvor Never Swim Alone Harry Rintoul Brave Hearts Marcy Rogers Nocturnal Emissions 1992 John Mighton A Short History of Night [10] Thomas Coyle The Tyrant of Pontus [11] Daniel MacIvor House Edward Roy Seeds Jason Sherman The League of Nathans 1993 Mid-Sized Theatre Neil Munro Bob's Kingdom Normand Chaurette , translated by Linda Gaboriau The Queens [12] Sean Dixon 1492 Ann-Marie MacDonald , Nic Gotham Nigredo Hotel David Young Glenn Small Theatre Michael Hollingsworth The Great War Michael Hollingsworth The Life and Times of Mackenzie King James O'Reilly Ghetto Edward Roy A Secret Life 1994 Mid-Sized Theatre George Bwanika Seremba Come Good Rain Simon Fortin Le Pays dans la gorge Robert Fothergill Public Lies Stewart Lemoine Shockers Delight! Jason Sherman Three in the Back, Two in the Head Small Theatre Soheil Parsa , Peter Farbridge The Death of the King Daniel Brooks , Leah Cherniak , Diane Flacks , Richard Greenblatt , Leslie Lester , Allan Merovitz The Theory of Relatives Kelley Jo Burke Charming and Rose: True Love Ken Garnhum Pants on Fire Michael Hollingsworth WWII 1995 Mid-Sized Theatre Brad Fraser Poor Super Man Daniel Brooks , Don McKellar , Tracy Wright 86 Jean-Marc Dalpé Eddy Daniel Danis , translated by Linda Gaboriau Stone and Ashes Colleen Wagner The Monument Small Theatre Sabina Fella Lebensborn Dave Carley Into Leah Cherniak The Attic, the Pearls, and 3 Fine Girls Edward Riche Possible Maps 1996 Mid-Sized Theatre Lee MacDougall High Life Bill Harrar Inquest Daniel MacIvor , Daniel Brooks Here Lies Henry John Mighton The Little Years Jason Sherman The Retreat Small Theatre Drew Hayden Taylor Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth Audrey Butler Medusa Rising Michael Hollingsworth The Cold War Bryan James Stockholm(e) Guillermo Verdecchia , Marcus Youssef A Line in the Sand 1997 Mid-Sized Theatre Theresa Tova Still the Night Buddies in Bad Times The Martha Stewart Projects Carole Fréchette , translated by John Murrell The Four Lives of Marie Daniel MacIvor The Soldier Dreams Judith Thompson Sled Small Theatre Djanet Sears Harlem Duet Robin Fulford Gulag Michael Hollingsworth The Global Village Part II: Trudeau and the FLQ Leonard Linklater , Patti Flather Sixty Below Jonathan Wilson My Own Private Oshawa 1998 Michael Healey Kicked Carol Bolt Famous Morris Ertman , Ron Reed Tent Meeting Sky Gilbert Schubert Lied M. J. Kang Noran Bang: The Yellow Room 1999 Anton Piatigorsky Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension Chris Abraham Lenz Karen Hines HELLO...HELLO Darren O'Donnell White Mice M. NourbeSe Philip Coups and Calypsos Peter Reitzel Spirits
Year Playwright Title Ref 2000 Michael Redhill Building Jerusalem Sky Gilbert The Emotionalists Dean Gilmour , Michele Smith Chekhov's Shorts Anton Piatigorsky The Offering Chaz Thorne The Dogpatch 2001 Chris Earle RADIO:30 Adam Nashman The 3º Cabaret Anton Piatigorsky The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik Michael Spence The Exit Room David Widdicombe Science Fiction 2002 Dean Gilmour , Michele Smith Chekhov Longs...In the Ravine Hrant Alianak The Walls of Africa Ned Dickens Icara Sarah Phillips Antigone Jacob Richmond The Qualities of Zero Jennifer Tarver History Play 2003 Mike McPhaden Poochwater [13] Dave Carley Orchidelirum [14] Michael Kennard , John Turner Mump and Smoot in Flux Matthew MacFadzean Richardthesecond Richard Sanger Two Words for Snow Eric Woolfe Grendelmaus 2004 Bluemouth Inc. something about a river Darrell Dennis Tales of an Urban Indian Abbas Nalbandian , translated by Soheil Parsa and Peter Farbridge Stories from the Rains of Love and Death Beatriz Pizano For Sale Eric Woolfe Dear Boss 2005 Tara Beagan Thy Neighbour's Wife [15] Erika Batdorf Poetic License Andy Massingham Rough House Gord Rand Pond Life Rick Roberts Kite 2006 Anosh Irani Bombay Black Sue Balint, Daryl Cloran , Alena Dzebo, Holly Lewis , Christopher Morris , Tanja Smoje and Dylan Trowbridge Return: The Sarajevo Project Mark Brownell Medici Slot Machine Alex Poch-Goldin Cringeworthy Judith Thompson Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Jabber and his Catatonic Songstress 2007 Bruce Alcock , Kate Alton , Rafael Barreto-Rivera , bpNichol , Paul Dutton , Steve MacCaffrey , Ross Manson The Four Horsemen Project Erika Batdorf , Christine Horne , Matthew Romantini Gorey Story [16] Brandon Firla , Kurt Firla SARSical Catherine Hernandez Singkil Tony Nardi Two Letters 2008 Anusree Roy Pyaasa Brendan Gall A Quiet Place Michael Hollingsworth Laurier Beatriz Pizano Madre Michael Rubenfeld My Fellow Creatures 2009 Anton Piatigorsky Eternal Hydra Tara Beagan Miss Julie: Sheh'mah [17] Layne Coleman Tijuana Cure Brendan Gall , Mike McPhaden , Rick Roberts , Julie Tepperman The Gladstone Variations David Yee lady in the red dress
Year Playwright Title Ref 2010 Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Gas Girls Hannah Moscovitch The Mill (Part Two): The Huron Bride Beatriz Pizano La Comuniòn Michele Smith , Dean Gilmour , Ravi Jain , Adam Paolozza Spent Norman Yeung Pu-Erh 2011 Sky Gilbert The Situationists Maev Beaty , Erin Shields , Andrea Donaldson Montparnasse Jovanni Sy A Taste of Empire Darrah Teitel The Apology Eric Woolfe Madhouse Variations 2012 Jules Lewis Tomasso's Party Heather Marie Annis , Amy Lee , Byron Laviolette Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself Hume Baugh Crush Adam Paolozza , Arif Mirabdolbaghi The Double Eric Woolfe Doc Wuthergloom's Haunted Medicine Show 2013 Adam Seybold The De Chardin Project [18] Sky Gilbert A Few Brittle Leaves Daniel Karasik The Biographer Michele Smith , Dean Gilmour As I Lay Dying Jordan Tannahill Post Eden 2014 Rosamund Small Vitals Sheila Heti All Our Happy Days Are Stupid Litmus Theatre Collective Birth of Frankenstein Alanna Mitchell Sea Sick Christina Serra , Michele Smith , Dan Watson Ralph + Lina 2015 Jordan Tannahill Concord Floral Florence Gibson MacDonald How Do I Love Thee? Amy Nostbakken , Norah Sadava Mouthpiece Beatriz Pizano , Trevor Schwellnus , Lyon Smith What I Learned from a Decade of Fear Judith Thompson Watching Glory Die 2016 Cliff Cardinal Huff [19] Nicolas Billon Butcher Rachel Blair A Man Walks Into a Bar Karen Hines Crawlspace d'bi.young anitafrika She Mami Wata & The Pussy Witchhunt 2017 Ngozi Paul The Emancipation of Ms. Lovely Michael Ross Albert Tough Jews Tony Diamanti , Dan Watson , Christina Serra , Karin Randoja , Liz MacDougall This Is the Point Evan Webber Other Jesus Eric Woolfe The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy 2018 Matthew MacKenzie Bears [20] Miranda Calderon , Adam Paolozza , Liz Peterson , Guillermo Verdecchia , Dan Watson Flashing Lights daniel jelani ellis speaking of sneaking Lauren Gillis , Alaine Hutton Mr. Truth Falen Johnson Ipperwash 2019 Christopher Morris The Runner Augusto Bitter Chicho Meegwun Fairbrother , Jack Grinhaus Isitwendam Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) Matthew MacKenzie After the Fire
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