The 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrated excellence in theatre from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.
Winners and nominees General Theatre Division ProductionOriginal PlaySpring Awakening – CentreStageFarther West – Tarragon Theatre Ghetto – Toronto Workshop Productions Hosanna – Théâtre du Petit Bonheur The Miracle Worker – Young People's Theatre | valign="top" |Jessica by Maria Campbell and Linda GriffithsIslands 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 |- !width="50%" |Leading Actor !width="50%" |Leading Actress |- | valign="top" |Stephen Ouimette for Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Eran ProductionsEric 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 | valign="top" |Martha Burns for The Miracle Worker – Young People's TheatreNancy 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 |- !width="50%" |Supporting Actor !width="50%" |Supporting Actress |- | valign="top" |Roland Hewgill for A Moon for the Misbegotten – Tarragon TheatreSean 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 | valign="top" |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 TheatreDirectionScenic DesignRichard 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 BonheurMichael 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 TheatreCostume DesignLighting DesignMichael 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 MurailleRobert 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 TheatreChoreographyChristopher 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 ProductionOriginal MusicalThe Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre The Secret Garden – COMUS Music TheatreThe 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 TheatreActorActressVictor 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 CompanyAllison 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 TheatreDirectionScenic DesignChristopher 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 TheatreMary 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 TheatreCostume DesignLighting DesignMary Kerr for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Leslie Macauley for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music Theatre David Gibb for Evita – Limelight Dinner TheatreJeffrey Dallas for The Desert Song – Desert Song Productions Ben Cekuta for Evita – Limelight Dinner Theatre Stephen Ross for The Secret Garden – COMUS Music TheatreMusical DirectionChoreographyChris 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 TheatreDiane 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 ProductionCabaret – VideoCabaret ''Melancholia – Theatre Columbus and Vox PopTouch'' – David Demchuk and Buddies in Bad Times
Theatre for Young Audiences Division ProductionGetting Wrecked – Theatre Direct Skin – Young People's Theatre The General – Theatre Direct
See also 40th Tony Awards 1986 Laurence Olivier Awards
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