# 1980 Dora Mavor Moore Awards

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

## 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 |