Toronto Theatre Critics Awards

The Toronto Theatre Critics Awards are annual awards, presented by a committee of theatre critics in the media of Toronto, Ontario, to honour achievements in the city's theatre production in the previous year.

The awards were launched in 2011 by John Colbourn of the Toronto Sun, Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star, Robert Cushman of the National Post and J. Kelly Nestruck of The Globe and Mail, as the first new opportunity for Toronto theatre critics to vote on or present awards since the discontinuation of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 2001.^[1]

The awards went on hiatus after 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on theatre production.^[2] They returned in 2024.^[3]

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Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2012	Ins Choi	Kim's Convenience	^[4]
2013	Hannah Moscovitch	This Is War	^[5]
2014	Robert Lepage	Needles and Opium	^[6]
2015	Michel Marc Bouchard	Tom at the Farm	^[7]
2016	Jordan Tannahill	Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom	^[8]
2017	Norah Sadava, Amy Nostbakken	Mouthpiece	^[9]
2018	Hannah Moscovitch	Bunny	^[10]
2018	Matthew MacKenzie	Bears	^[10]
2019	Ho Ka Kei	Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land)	^[11]
2020	Anthony MacMahon, Thomas McKechnie	The Jungle	^[12]
2024	Nick Green	Casey and Diana	^[3]
2024	Michael Healey	The Master Plan	^[3]
2025	Miriam Fernandes, Ravi Jain	Mahabharata	^[13]
2025	Veronica Hortigüela, Annie Luján	Monks	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2012	Roland Schimmelpfennig	The Golden Dragon	^[4]
2013	Mark O'Rowe	Terminus	^[5]
2014	Sarah Ruhl	Passion Play	^[6]
2015	Stephen Adly Guirgis	The Motherfucker with the Hat	^[7]
2016	None presented		^[8]
2017	Annie Baker	John	^[9]
2018	Stephen Karam	The Humans	^[10]
2019	Tarell Alvin McCraney	The Brothers Size	^[11]
2020	Annie Baker	The Flick	^[12]
2024	Natalya Vorozhbit (Sasha Dugdale, translator)	Bad Roads	^[3]
2025	Annie Baker	Infinite Life	^[13]
2025	Heidi Schreck	What the Constitution Means to Me	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2012	Jacob Richmond, Brooke Maxwell	Ride the Cyclone	^[4]
2016	Red One Theatre Collective	The Chasse-Galerie	^[8]
2019	Hannah Moscovitch, Christian Barry, Ben Caplan	Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story	^[11]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Theatre Passe Muraille, Canadian Stage	The Middle Place	^[1]
2012	Tarragon Theatre	The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs	^[4]
2013	Mirvish Productions	Terminus	^[5]
2014	Soulpepper Theatre	Angels in America	^[6]
2014	Tarragon Theatre	Lungs	^[6]
2015	Mirvish Productions	Arcadia	^[7]
2015	Outside the March	Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play	^[7]
2016	Butcher's Block Collective, Why Not Theatre	Butcher	^[8]
2017	The Company Theatre	John	^[9]
2017	Ex Machina, Canadian Stage	887
2018	Canadian Stage	The Humans	^[10]
2019	Obsidian Theatre, Nightwood Theatre	School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play	^[11]
2020	Outside the March, Crow's Theatre	The Flick	^[12]
2024	Canadian Stage	The Inheritance	^[3]
2025	Why Not Theatre, Canadian Stage	Mahabharata	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Lincoln Centre	South Pacific	^[1]
2012	Acting Up Stage Company	Caroline, or Change	^[4]
2013	Mirvish Productions	The Book of Mormon	^[5]
2014	Canadian Stage	London Road	^[6]
2015	Soulpepper Theatre	Spoon River	^[7]
2016	Mirvish Productions	Kinky Boots	^[8]
2017	Mirvish Productions	Come from Away	^[9]
2018	Musical Stage Company	Fun Home	^[10]
2019	Young People's Theatre	Mary Poppins	^[11]
2020	Orin Wolf, Stylesfour Productions, Evamere Entertainment, Atlantic Theater Co.	The Band's Visit	^[12]
2024	Crow’s Theatre, Musical Stage Company	Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812	^[3]
2025	Soulpepper Theatre, Musical Stage Company, Crow’s Theatre, TO Live	A Strange Loop	^[13]

Toronto Theatre Critics Awards

Awards

Best New Canadian Play

Best New International Play

Best New Musical

Best Production of a Play

Best Production of a Musical

Best Lead Actor and Actress in a Play

Best Lead Actor and Actress in a Musical

Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Play

Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Musical

Best Ensemble Performance in a Play

Best Ensemble Performance in a Musical

Best Solo Performance in a Play or Musical

Best Director of a Play

Best Director of a Musical

Best Design of a Play or Musical

Best Scenic Design of a Play or Musical

Best Lighting Design of a Play or Musical

Best Costume Design of a Play or Musical

Best Sound Design of a Play or Musical

Special Citation

See also

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Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	David Ferry	Blasted	^[1]
2011	Yanna McIntosh	Ruined	^[1]
2012	Paul Sun-Hyung Lee	Kim's Convenience	^[4]
2012	Nicole Underhay	The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs	^[4]
2013	Stuart Hughes	The Crucible	^[5]
2013	Michelle Monteith	Little One
2014	Damien Atkins	Angels in America	^[6]
2014	Carly Street	Venus in Fur	^[6]
2015	David Ferry	Blackbird	^[7]
2015	Fiona Reid	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2016	Kawa Ada	Bombay Black	^[8]
2016	Laura Condlin	An Enemy of the People
2017	Dawn Jani Birley	Prince Hamlet	^[9]
2017	André Sills	"Master Harold"...and the Boys	^[9]
2018	Lovell Adams-Gray	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	^[10]
2018	Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory	Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools
2019	Eric Peterson	The Father	^[11]
2020	Daren A. Herbert	Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train	^[12]
2020	Amy Rutherford	A Streetcar Named Desire	^[12]
2024	Sean Arbuckle	Casey and Diana	^[3]
2024	Amaka Umeh	Sizwe Banzi Is Dead	^[3]
2025	Ins Choi	Kim's Convenience	^[13]
2025	Noah Reid	A Case for the Existence of God	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Louise Pitre	A Year with Frog and Toad	^[1]
2011	Tony Sheldon	Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	^[1]
2012	Sahr Ngaujah	Fela!	^[4]
2012	Arlene Duncan	Caroline, or Change	^[4]
2013	Bruce Dow	Of a Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical	^[5]
2013	Bree Greig	Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata	^[5]
2014	Ramin Karimloo	Les Misérables	^[6]
2014	Chilina Kennedy	The Little Mermaid	^[6]
2015	Daren A. Herbert	The Wild Party	^[7]
2015	Trish Lindstrom	Once
2016	Alan Mingo Jr.	Kinky Boots	^[8]
2016	Carly Heffernan	One Night Only	^[8]
2017	Beau Dixon	Passing Strange	^[9]
2017	Patricia Cano	The (Post) Mistress
2018	Jordan Cheng	Mr. Shi and His Lover	^[10]
2018	Hannah Levinson, Sara Farb, Laura Condlln	Fun Home
2019	Robert Markus	Dear Evan Hansen	^[11]
2020	Jully Black	Caroline, or Change	^[12]
2020	Chilina Kennedy	The Band's Visit	^[12]
2024	Damien Atkins	De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail	^[3]
2025	Malachi McCaskill	A Strange Loop	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Richard McMillan	After Akhmatova	^[1]
2011	Cara Ricketts	Eternal Hydra	^[1]
2012	Kelli Fox	The Penelopiad	^[4]
2012	Philip Riccio	The Test	^[4]
2013	Maev Beaty	Proud	^[5]
2013	Alon Nashman	THIS	^[5]
2014	Ian D. Clark	Cock	^[6]
2014	Nancy Palk	Angels in America	^[6]
2015	Juan Chioran	The Motherfucker with the Hat	^[7]
2015	Beatriz Pizano	Blood Wedding	^[7]
2016	Anna Chatterton	Independent Aunties	^[8]
2016	Danny Ghantous	A Line in the Sand
2017	James Daly		^[9]
2017	Nora McLellan	John	^[9]
2018	Carolyn Fe	Calpurnia	^[10]
2018	Maxwell Haynes	The Aliens	^[10]
2019	Akosua Amo-Adem	School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play	^[11]
2019	Sabryn Rock	The Royale	^[11]
2020	Sarah Dodd	Marjorie Prime	^[12]
2024	Jadyn Nasato	Four Minutes	^[3]
2024	Oyin Oladejo	Three Sisters	^[3]
2025	Nancy Palk	Infinite Life	^[13]
2025	Dan Mousseau	There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or, The Born-Again Crow	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Oliver Dennis	The Fantasticks	^[1]
2011	Kate Hennig	Billy Elliot the Musical	^[1]
2012	Deborah Hay	Caroline, or Change	^[4]
2012	Elliott Loran	Ride the Cyclone
2013	Darrin Baker	Falsettos	^[5]
2013	Bryn McAuley	Snow White: The Deliciously Dopey Family Musical	^[5]
2014	James Monroe Iglehart	Aladdin	^[6]
2014	Lana Carillo	The Little Mermaid	^[6]
2015	Susan Gilmour	The Wild Party	^[7]
2015	Jacob MacInnis	James and the Giant Peach	^[7]
2016	Justin Bolt	The Wizard of Oz	^[8]
2016	AJ Bridel	Kinky Boots
2017	Dan Chameroy	Matilda the Musical	^[9]
2017	Vanessa Sears	Passing Strange	^[9]
2018	Cynthia Dale	Fun Home	^[10]
2018	Derek Kwan	Mr. Shi and His Lover	^[10]
2019	Mary Fay Coady	Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story	^[11]
2019	Jessica Sherman	Dear Evan Hansen
Ephraim Sykes	Ain't Too Proud
2020	Vanessa Sears	Caroline, or Change	^[12]
2024	George Krissa	Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812	^[3]
2024	Heeyun Park	Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812	^[3]
2025	Julia Pulo	Life After	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2019	Rachel Cairns, Aisha Evelyna, Ruth Goodwin, Annelise Hawrylak, Ula Jurecka, Brittany Kay, Heath V. Salazar, Hallie Seline, Amaka Umeh, Robyn Stevan	The Wolves	^[11]
2020	Colin Doyle, Amy Keating, Durae McFarlane, Brendan McMurtry-Howlett	The Flick	^[12]
2020	Kaleb Alexander, Mazin Elsadig, Alex McCooeye	Pass Over	^[12]
2024	Christopher Allen, Ben Carlson, Philippa Domville, Peter Fernandes, Tara Nicodemo, Yanna McIntosh, Mike Shara	The Master Plan	^[3]
2025	Kragva, Moog, Wug	Goblin: Macbeth	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2019	Rielle Braid, Peter Deiwick, Bruce Dow, Donna Garner, Kira Guloien, David Fox, Britta Johnson, Dave Autar, Mia Johnson, Zahra Khan, Abi Lee, Liam Lockhart-Rush, Alejandra Nunez, James Parchment, Danté Prince, Emmett Young, Jill Wood	Dr. Silver: A Celebration of Life	^[11]
2020	Beau Dixon, Hailey Gillis, Kira Guloien, Andrew Penner	Ghost Quartet	^[12]
2024	Dave Ball, Joel Cumber, Eva Foote, Peter Fernandes, Mike Jackson, Julia McLellan, Jessica Sherman, Margaret Thompson, Kelsey Verzotti, Jeremy Walmsley	Kelly v. Kelly	^[3]
2025	Charlie Clark, Sierra Holder, Nathanael Judah, David Lopez, Marcus Nance, Matt Nethersole, David Andrew Reid, and Amaka Umeh	A Strange Loop	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Gina Wilkinson	Wide Awake Hearts	^[1]
2012	Weyni Mengesha	The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs	^[4]
2013	Mitchell Cushman	Terminus	^[5]
2014	Albert Schultz	Of Human Bondage	^[6]
2015	Soheil Parsa	Blood Wedding	^[7]
2016	Ravi Jain	Salt-Water Moon	^[8]
2017	Philip Akin	"Master Harold"...and the Boys	^[9]
2018	Erin Brubacher	Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools	^[10]
2018	Jani Lauzon	The Monument	^[10]
2019	Nina Lee Aquino	School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play	^[11]
2019	Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu	The Brothers Size	^[11]
2020	Philip Akin	Actually	^[12]
2020	Philip Akin	Pass Over	^[12]
2024	Andrew Kushnir	Bad Roads	^[3]
2024	Leora Morris	The Sound Inside	^[3]
2025	Dylan Trowbridge	Cock	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2012	Britt Small, Jacob Richmond	Ride the Cyclone	^[4]
2013	Casey Nicholaw, Trey Parker	The Book of Mormon	^[5]
2014	Jackie Maxwell	London Road	^[6]
2015	Albert Schultz	Spoon River	^[7]
2016	Tyrone Savage	The Chasse-Galerie	^[8]
2017	Christopher Ashley	Come from Away	^[9]
2018	Robert McQueen	Fun Home	^[10]
2019	Christian Barry	Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story	^[11]
2020	Marie Farsi	Ghost Quartet	^[12]
2020	Conor McPherson	Girl from the North Country	^[12]
2024	Gregory Prest	De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail	^[3]
2025	Ilana Khanin	I Was Unbecoming Then	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2011	Robert Gardiner	Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge	^[1]
2012	Creative team (names not specified in source)	War Horse	^[4]
2013	Nick Blais	Terminus	^[5]
2014	Lorenzo Savoini (sets and lighting), Erika Connor (costumes), Mike Ross (sound)	Of Human Bondage	^[6]
2015	Nick Blais, Ken Mackenzie, Lindsay Junkin, Sam Sholdice, Marcus Jamin	Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play	^[7]
2016	Owen Belton, Alessandro Juliani, Meg Roe, Jay Gower Taylor, Tom Visser, Nancy Bryant	Betroffenheit	^[8]
2016	Lorenzo Savoini, Kimberly Purtell, Debashis Sinha	Eurydice
2017	Robert Lepage, Jean-Sébastien Côté, Laurent Routhier, Félix Fradet-Faguy	887	^[9]
2018	Nick Blais, Lindsay Dagger Junkin, Andre du Toit, Richard Feren	Jerusalem	^[10]
2019	Patrick Lavender, Richard Feren, Michelle Bohn, Nick Bottomley	The Nether	^[11]
2020	Nick Blais, Nick Bottomley, Anahita Dehbonehie, Richard Feren	The Flick	^[12]
2024	Nick Blais, Heidi Chan, Anahita Dehbonehie, Niloufar Ziaee	A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney	^[3]

Year	Recipient	Play	Ref
2025	Bonnie Beecher, Jeff Pybus	People, Places and Things	^[13]
2025	Chris Malkowski	Measure for Measure	^[13]

Year	Recipient	Reason	Ref
2011	Ken Gass	Contributions to Toronto theatre as founder and artistic director of Factory Theatre	^[1]
2012	Eric Peterson	Lifetime achievement as an actor	^[4]
2013	None presented		^[4]
2014	VideoCabaret	Outstanding body of work	^[6]
2015	None presented		^[7]
2016	Videofag		^[8]
2017	Jon Kaplan	Posthumous honour as a theatre critic	^[9]
2018	Bob Nasmith	"untraditional, decades-long theatre career and his spirit of adventure and enquiry"	^[10]
2019	None presented		^[11]
2020	Outside the March	creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic via the improvisational phone-based drama The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries	^[12]
2024	Daniel MacIvor	Exceptional artistic achievement	^[3]
2025	Buddies in Bad Times, Native Earth Performing Arts	There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or, The Born-Again Crow	^[13]
2025	Weyni Mengesha	Contributions to Toronto theatre as artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre from 2018 to 2025	^[13]