Bad Dog Theatre nominated for Three Dora Mavor Moore Awards

Yesterday, the nominees for the 44th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards were announced. The Doras celebrate excellence on Toronto stages and are the oldest and largest professional theatre, dance and opera awards program in Canada. The Bad Dog Theatre Company received multiple nominations for the 2023 productions of Holiday! An Improvised Musical and Swordplay: A Play of Swords.


From the Bad Dog newsletter:

We are so grateful to the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts and this year’s Dora jury for recognizing Bad Dog Theatre Company productions for the first time in our company’s history. (We are very emotional over here.)

IN THE MUSICAL THEATRE DIVISION FOR HOLIDAY! AN IMPROVISED MUSICAL:

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE
Ann Paula Bautista, Ashley Botting, Aurora Browne, Brandon Hackett, Kyah Green, Nadine Djoury, Reid Janisse, Sam Hancock, Stephanie Malek And Scott Christian

OUTSTANDING CREATIVE DIRECTION
Jan Caruana (Director) & Scott Christian (Music Director)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
Bad Dog Theatre Company

IN THE INDEPENDENT THEATRE DIVISION FOR SWORDPLAY: A PLAY OF SWORDS:

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE
Conor Bradbury Julian Frid, Victoria Laberge, Lowen Morrow, Seann Murray, Sharjil Rasool, Alec Toller and Jon Blair

The full list of 2024 Dora nominations can be found here.