Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role – Play (Large Theatre)

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The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live Canadian theatre.

Awards and nominations[]

Year	Winner	Nominated
1981	Roberta Maxwell, Stevie	, Loose Ends Lynne Griffin, Arms and the Man , The Crackwalker
1982	Rosemary Dunsmore, Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers	Clare Coulter, Blood Relations Jennifer Phipps, Filumena Fiona Reid, Night and Day
1983	Jennifer Phipps, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You	, What Is to Be Done? , Translations Martha Henry, The Crucible
1984	Martha Burns, Trafford Tanzi	Jackie Burroughs, White Biting Dog Rosemary Dunsmore, Single , The Dining Room Kate Trotter, Top Girls
1985	Doris Petrie, 'night, Mother	Thuli Dumakude, Poppie Nongena , De beaux gestes/Beautiful Deeds Jennifer Phipps, L'Amante anglaise , Uncle Vanya
1986[1]	Martha Burns, The Miracle Worker	Nancy Beatty, The Wedding Script , Farther West , And a Nightingale Sang , The Miracle Worker
1987[2]	Lally Cadeau, Saturday Sunday Monday	Patricia Collins, Pack of Lies Susan Coyne, Aunt Dan and Lemon , Talley & Son Djanet Sears, Other Female Parts
1988[3]	Susan Wright, A Lie of the Mind	Clare Coulter, Peggy's Song Diane D'Aquila, Nothing Sacred , Toronto, Mississippi , I Am Yours
1989[4]	, Under the Skin	Patricia Conolly, The Road to Mecca Seana McKenna, The Road to Mecca Kate Nelligan, Spoils of War , My Memories of You
1990	Nancy Beatty, Love and Anger	, Laughing Wild , The Man I Love , The Europeans Kate Trotter, The Father
1991	Seana McKenna, Saint Joan	, A Fertile Imagination , Clutching the Heat Fiona Reid, Daylight Saving Tracy Wright, Lion in the Streets
1992	Nicola Cavendish, Shirley Valentine	Sylvie Drapeau, Elvire Jouvet 40 Seana McKenna, Three Sisters Kate Trotter, Summer and Smoke Janet Wright, Not Wanted on the Voyage
1993	Fiona Reid, Fallen Angels	, Fallen Angels Rosemary Dunsmore, Fallen Angels Jani Lauzon, Whale , Crimes of the Heart
1994	, Dancing at Lughnasa	, Homeward Bound , Abundance , Dancing at Lughnasa , The Taming of the Shrew
1995[5]	Fiona Reid, Six Degrees of Separation	Janet-Laine Green, Transit of Venus , The Wooden Hill Joan Orenstein, Transit of Venus Fiona Reid, Hay Fever
1996	Nicola Cavendish, Later Life	Anne-Marie Cadieux, The Seven Streams of the River Ota , The Misfit Yanna McIntosh, A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Glorious 12th
1997	, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol	, Thirteen Hands , Oliver Twist Rochelle Oliver, Death of a Salesman Fiona Reid, Arcadia
1998	Kristen Thomson, Problem Child	Brenda Bazinet, The End of Civilization , Romeo and Juliet , Beating Heart Cadaver , Molly Sweeney Fiona Reid, A Delicate Balance
1999	Nancy Beatty, Risk Everything	, Kilt Martha Burns, The Memory of Water Nicola Cavendish, Les Belles soeurs , Don Carlos
2000	, Music for Contortionist	Linda Griffiths, Alien Creature Rita Lafontaine, Encore une fois, si vous permettez Yanna McIntosh, Belle , Motel Helene
2001	Kristen Thomson, I, Claudia	Susan Coyne, An Acre of Time , Thunderstruck Seana McKenna, Wit , Slavs
2002	Yanna McIntosh, Skylight	, Plan B , You Are Here , Elisa's Skin Yanna McIntosh, Belle Fiona Reid, Indian Ink , The Bald Soprano Jenny Young, The Shape of a Girl
2003	, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl	Rosemary Dunsmore, The Domino Heart Kate Hennig, The Danish Play , The Gwendolyn Poems , The Miracle Worker
2004	Caroline Cave, The Syringa Tree	Martha Burns, Happy Days , Simpl Yanna McIntosh, The Syringa Tree , Blood d'bi young, da kink in my hair
2005	, The Leisure Society	, Le Collier d'Hélène , Half Life , Trout Stanley Alison Sealy-Smith, Cast Iron
2006	d'bi young, blood.claat — one womban story	Christine Brubaker, The Amorous Servant Martha MacIsaac, The Wild Duck Yanna McIntosh, The Monument Karen Robinson, Two Can Play
2007	Seana McKenna, Orpheus Descending	Caroline Cave, John and Beatrice Diane D'Aquila, Leaving Home , Lucy Kristen Thomson, The Chairs
2008	Lally Cadeau, Rose	Megan Follows, Three Sisters Megan Follows, Top Girls , Top Girls Arsinée Khanjian, The Palace of the End , The December Man
2009	Alison Sealy-Smith, A Raisin in the Sun	, Scratch , Another Home Invasion Abena Malika, A Raisin in the Sun Waneta Storms, The Patient Hour
2010	, If We Were Birds	, Hamlet , Hamlet Anusree Roy, Letters to My Grandma , Such Creatures
2011	Yanna McIntosh, Ruined	, Blasted Anusree Roy, Brothel #9 Pamela Mala Sinha, Brothel #9 , Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God - The Africa Trilogy
2012[6]	Pamela Mala Sinha, Crash	, The Happy Woman Christine Horne, Andromache , The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs , White Biting Dog
2013	, The Little Years	, Proud Maev Beaty, Terminus Clare Coulter, LEAR , Miss Caledonia
2014	, Venus in Fur	, Lungs Holly Lewis, Tribes , Angels in America: Perestroika Fiona Reid, Entertaining Mr Sloane
2015	Nicky Guadagni, Hooked	, The De Chardin Project Rosemary Dunsmore, Tom at the Farm , The Mountaintop Fiona Reid, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2016	Rebecca Northan, Blind Date	Valerie Buhagiar, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom , Mustard Mayko Nguyen, Salt-Water Moon Anusree Roy, Bombay Black
2017	, The Last Wife	Lisa Berry, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III) Diane Flacks, Body Politic , A Doll's House , Little Pretty and the Exceptional
2018	, Confederation & Riel	Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) Seana McKenna, Lear , A Delicate Balance , Scandal & Rebellion

References[]

External links[]

• Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts - Doras