Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Original Play (General Theatre)


The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre.
For most of the Dora Awards' history, separate awards have been presented for best play and Best Original Musical. For part of the 1990s, however, the two awards were merged with both musicals and dialogue-based plays competing in a single category. From 1980 to 1988, only a single award was presented each year; beginning in 1988, a separate award was introduced for Outstanding New Play, Small/Independent Theatre.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Years marked with a § are those in which the awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding New Musical were merged.
YearPlaywrightTitleRef
1990George F. WalkerLove and Anger
1990Howard BarkerThe Europeans
1990Sally ClarkThe Trial of Judith K
1990Joan MacLeodAmigo's Blue Guitar
1990Michael Ondaatje, Richard Rose, D.D. KuglerComing Through Slaughter
1991Michel Marc Bouchard Lilies
1991Linda GriffithsThe Darling Family
1991Ann-Marie MacDonaldThe Arab's Mouth
1991Judith ThompsonLion in the Streets
1991Michel TremblayLa Maison suspendue
1992George F. WalkerEscape from Happiness
1992Michael HollingsworthLaurier
1992Bryden MacDonaldWhale Riding Weather
1992Paulette PhillipsUnder the Influence
1992Paula WingNaomi's Road
1993 §Terrence McNally, John Kander, Fred EbbKiss of the Spider Woman
1993 §Martha Ross, John MillardRatbag
1994 §Leslie ArdenThe House of Martin Guerre
1994 §John LazarusThe Nightingale
1994 §Michael O'BrienA Christmas Carol
1994 §Andrew Sabiston, Timothy WilliamsNapoleon
1995 §John Wimbs, Christopher RichardsMolly Wood
1995 §Don HannahThe Wooden Hill
1995 §Maureen HunterTransit of Venus
1996 §Raymond StoreyThe Glorious 12th
1996 §Gilles MaheuThe Dead Souls
1996 §Allan StrattonDracula: Nightmare of the Dead
1997 §Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNallyRagtime
1997 §John Caird, Paul GordonJane Eyre
1997 §Maureen HunterAtlantis
1997 §Michael O'BrienOliver Twist, or The Street Boy's Progress
1997 §Carol ShieldsThirteen Hands
1998George F. WalkerProblem Child
1998David GowCherry Docs
1998Jason ShermanPatience
1998George F. WalkerThe End Of Civilization
1998David YoungInexpressible Island
1999Michael HealeyThe Drawer Boy
1999Daniel Brooks, Guillermo VerdecchiaInsomnia
1999Michael Hollingsworth, Deanne TaylorThe Life and Times of Brian Mulroney
1999Soheil ParsaAurash
1999Jonathan WilsonKilt