Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Original Play (General Theatre)
The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in Toronto theatre.
For most of the Dora Awards' history, separate awards have been presented for best play and Best Original Musical. For part of the 1990s, however, the two awards were merged with both musicals and dialogue-based plays competing in a single category. From 1980 to 1988, only a single award was presented each year; beginning in 1988, a separate award was introduced for Outstanding New Play, Small/Independent Theatre.
Winners and nominees
1980s
1990s
Years marked with a § are those in which the awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding New Musical were merged.| Year | Playwright | Title | Ref |
| 1990 | George F. Walker | Love and Anger | |
| 1990 | Howard Barker | The Europeans | |
| 1990 | Sally Clark | The Trial of Judith K | |
| 1990 | Joan MacLeod | Amigo's Blue Guitar | |
| 1990 | Michael Ondaatje, Richard Rose, D.D. Kugler | Coming Through Slaughter | |
| 1991 | Michel Marc Bouchard | Lilies | |
| 1991 | Linda Griffiths | The Darling Family | |
| 1991 | Ann-Marie MacDonald | The Arab's Mouth | |
| 1991 | Judith Thompson | Lion in the Streets | |
| 1991 | Michel Tremblay | La Maison suspendue | |
| 1992 | George F. Walker | Escape from Happiness | |
| 1992 | Michael Hollingsworth | Laurier | |
| 1992 | Bryden MacDonald | Whale Riding Weather | |
| 1992 | Paulette Phillips | Under the Influence | |
| 1992 | Paula Wing | Naomi's Road | |
| 1993 § | Terrence McNally, John Kander, Fred Ebb | Kiss of the Spider Woman | |
| 1993 § | Martha Ross, John Millard | Ratbag | |
| 1994 § | Leslie Arden | The House of Martin Guerre | |
| 1994 § | John Lazarus | The Nightingale | |
| 1994 § | Michael O'Brien | A Christmas Carol | |
| 1994 § | Andrew Sabiston, Timothy Williams | Napoleon | |
| 1995 § | John Wimbs, Christopher Richards | Molly Wood | |
| 1995 § | Don Hannah | The Wooden Hill | |
| 1995 § | Maureen Hunter | Transit of Venus | |
| 1996 § | Raymond Storey | The Glorious 12th | |
| 1996 § | Gilles Maheu | The Dead Souls | |
| 1996 § | Allan Stratton | Dracula: Nightmare of the Dead | |
| 1997 § | Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNally | Ragtime | |
| 1997 § | John Caird, Paul Gordon | Jane Eyre | |
| 1997 § | Maureen Hunter | Atlantis | |
| 1997 § | Michael O'Brien | Oliver Twist, or The Street Boy's Progress | |
| 1997 § | Carol Shields | Thirteen Hands | |
| 1998 | George F. Walker | Problem Child | |
| 1998 | David Gow | Cherry Docs | |
| 1998 | Jason Sherman | Patience | |
| 1998 | George F. Walker | The End Of Civilization | |
| 1998 | David Young | Inexpressible Island | |
| 1999 | Michael Healey | The Drawer Boy | |
| 1999 | Daniel Brooks, Guillermo Verdecchia | Insomnia | |
| 1999 | Michael Hollingsworth, Deanne Taylor | The Life and Times of Brian Mulroney | |
| 1999 | Soheil Parsa | Aurash | |
| 1999 | Jonathan Wilson | Kilt |