OTF Invests $105,000 to Celebrate Performing Arts
 
Internationally renowned grande dame of song, Maureen Forrester, was among this year’s Dora Mavor Moore Award winners.

Known as Canada’s musical ambassador to the world, she received the Barbara Hamilton Memorial Award, honouring excellence and professionalism in the performing arts. Julia Munro, Parliamentary Assistant to Ontario’s Minister of Culture, and OTF’s Toronto Grant Review Team member Graham Orwin joined in the 23rd annual celebration, held for the first time in Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre on June 17th.

A key funder of the arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation awarded $105,000 over three years to the Dora Mavor Moore Awards, in partnership with the Toronto Theatre Alliance, to sustain and build the profile of this unique awards program that honours the creators of up to 200 theatre and dance productions annually.

Named after the late Dora Mavor Moore, a well-loved teacher and director who helped establish Canadian professional theatre in the 1930s, the awards recognize artistic excellence in playwriting, production, direction, acting, design and musical composition. This year “Doras” were presented to over 30 award winners for outstanding achievement in their craft.

MPP Julia Munro, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Culture (left), and OTF volunteer Graham Orwin congratulate 2002 Dora winner Maureen Forrester