# 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards

The 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrated excellence in theatre from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.

## 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 La Storia: A Table of Fables 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 |

### Independent Theatre Division

Production :
* Cabaret – VideoCabaret
* Melancholia – Theatre Columbus and Vox Pop
* Touch – David Demchuk and Buddies in Bad Times |

### Theatre for Young Audiences Division

Production :
* Getting Wrecked – Theatre Direct
* Skin – Young People's Theatre
* The General – Theatre Direct |