The top honour at this year’s Toronto Theatre Critics Awards went to Canadian Stage’s production of The Humans, which won for Best Production and Best International Play. This year’s awards honoured many different plays, with a record-breaking three ties in major productions.
This is the eight year of the TTCAs. This year’s voters were Robert Cushman, Steve Fisher, Karen Fricker, Christopher Hoile, Carly Maga, Martin Morrow, J. Kelly Nestruck, Lynn Slotkin, and Glenn Sumi.
The full list of winners is below. Congratulations!
Best Production of a Play
The Humans by Stephen Karam (Canadian Stage)
Best New Canadian Play
Bears by Matthew MacKenzie (Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts and Punctuate! Theatre in association with Native Earth Performing Arts and Theatre Centre)
tied with
Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch (Tarragon Theatre)
Best International Play
The Humans by Stephen Karam (Canadian Stage)
Best Director of a Play
Jani Lauzon, The Monument by Colleen Wagner (Factory Theatre)
tied with
Erin Brubacher, Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Evalyn Parry (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille)
Best Design
Nick Blais (sets), Lindsay Dagger Junkin (costumes), Andre du Toit (lighting), and Richard Feren (music and sound), Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (Outside the March and Company Theatre, in association with Starvox Entertainment)
Best Actor in a Play
Lovell Adams-Gray as Levee in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson (Soulpepper Theatre)
Best Actress in a Play
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory in Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Evalyn Parry (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille)
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Maxwell Haynes as Evan Shelmerdine in The Aliens by Annie Baker (Coal Mine Theatre)
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Carolyn Fe as Precy in Calpurnia by Audrey Dwyer (Nightwood Theatre and Sulong Theatre)
Best New Musical
Mr. Shi and his Lover by Wong Teng Chi and Njo Kong Kie (Macau Experimental Theatre/Music Picnic/Point View Art Association)
Best Production of a Musical
Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori (Musical Stage Company, presented by David Mirvish)
Best Director of a Musical
Robert McQueen, Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori (Musical Stage Company, presented by David Mirvish)
Best Actress in a Musical
Laura Condlln as Alison Bechdel in Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori(Musical Stage Company, presented by David Mirvish)
tied with
Sara Farb as Medium Alison in Fun Home
tied with
Hannah Levinson as Small Alison in Fun Home
Best Actor in a Musical
Jordan Cheng as Mr. Shi in Mr. Shi and his Lover by Wong Teng Chi and Njo Kong Kie (Macau Experimental Theatre/Music Picnic/Point View Art Association)
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Cynthia Dale as Helen Bechdel in Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori(Musical Stage Company, presented by David Mirvish)
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Derek Kwan as Boursicot in Mr. Shi and his Lover by Wong Teng Chi and Njo Kong Kie (Macau Experimental Theatre/Music Picnic/Point View Art Association)
Bob Nasmith, “for his untraditional, decades-long theatre career, and his spirit of adventure and enquiry, which he brings to his unforgettable stage work.”