1980 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Explained

1980 Dora Mavor Moore Awards
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The 1980 Dora Mavor Moore Awards were the first major award ceremony celebrating excellence in theatre from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.^[1] ^[2]

Winners and nominees

General Theatre Division

Production	Original Play
Balconville – Centaur Theatre Productions presented by Toronto Arts Productions Ain't Lookin' – A T.W.P. Production Paper Wheat – 25th Street Theatre at Toronto Free Theatre Strawberry Fields – Toronto Free Theatre	Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths and Paul Thompson – Theatre Passe Muraille October's Soldiers by Alun Hibbert – Theatre Passe Muraille Something Red by Tom Walmsley – New Play Centre
Leading Performer	Supporting Performer
*Viola Léger for La Sagouine* – Théâtre Français de Toronto Linda Griffiths for Maggie and Pierre – Theatre Passe Muraille** Andrew Gillies for Strawberry Fields – Toronto Free Theatre Michael Hogan for Something Red – Tarragon Theatre Dan MacDonald for American Buffalo – New Play Centre Fiona Reid for Born Yesterday Wenna Shaw for The Relapse – Phoenix Theatre R. H. Thomson for Judgement	*Geoffrey Bowes for Automatic Pilot* – New Theatre Gary Reineke for Buried Child – Toronto Free Theatre** Sharon Bakker for Paper Wheat – 25th Street Theatre at Toronto Free Theatre Rosemary Dunsmore for Buried Child – Toronto Free Theatre Marion Gilsenan for Strawberry Fields – Toronto Free Theatre Barbara Gordon for The Matchmaker – Theatre Passe Muraille Richard Monette for Something Red – New Play Centre Kim Renders for The Matchmaker – Theatre Passe Muraille
Direction	Scenic Design
*Guy Sprung for Balconville* and Paper Wheat – Centaur Theatre Productions presented by Toronto Arts Productions** Peter Froehlich for Staller's Farm – Theatre Passe Muraille Ken Livingstone for American Buffalo – New Play Centre George Luscombe for Ain't Lookin' – A T.W.P. Production	*Barbra Matis for Balconville* – Centaur Theatre Productions presented by Toronto Arts Productions** Astrid Janson for Refugees – Toronto Workshop Productions and Co-Opera Theatre Jim Plaxton for Strawberry Fields and Coming through Slaughter – Toronto Free Theatre
Costume Design	Lighting Design
*Susan Benson for Twelfth Night* – Young People's Theatre** Shawn Kerwin for Happy End – Tarragon Theatre Martin Johnson for The Matchmaker – Theatre Passe Muraille Astrid Janson for Flying – Toronto Workshop Productions Kelly Jay, Kerry Knickle and Maggie Thomas for Orders from Bergdorf – NDWT	*Jim Plaxton for Night, Refugees* and Strawberry Fields – Toronto Workshop Productions and Co-Opera Theatre, Toronto Free Theatre** Lynne Hyde for Man's a Man Richard Nieoczym for Hasid

Musical Theatre or Revue Division

Production (Musical)	Production (Revue or Cabaret)
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road – Beryl Fox and Marlene Smith Orders from Bergdorf – NDWT Refugees – Toronto Workshop Productions and Co-Opera Theatre	Indigo – Avid Entertainments CODCO – Theatre Passe Muraille Dinah and Friends – Androcles Entertainment For Whom the Bell Hops – Second City
Performer	Original Score
*Salome Bey for Indigo* – Avid Entertainments** Dinah Christie for Dinah and Friends – Androcles Entertainment Judith Lander for I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road – Beryl Fox and Marlene Smith Denis Simpson for Flying and Indigo – Avid Entertainments	*Barbara Spence Potter for Colette* – Phoenix Theatre** Jim Galloway for Coming through Slaughter – Necessary Angel Kelly Jay, Kerry Knickle, Carole Lazare and Keith McNair for Orders from Bergdorf – NDWT Beverly Pannell and Raymond Pannell for Refugees – Toronto Workshop Productions and Co-Opera Theatre

See also

Notes and References

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