Year
|
Winner
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Nominated
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1981
|
Roberta Maxwell, Stevie
|
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1982
|
Rosemary Dunsmore, Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers
|
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1983
|
Jennifer Phipps,
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
|
|
1984
|
Martha Burns, Trafford Tanzi
|
|
1985
|
Doris Petrie,
'night, Mother
|
|
1986
[2]
|
Martha Burns,
The Miracle Worker
|
|
1987
[3]
|
Lally Cadeau, Saturday Sunday Monday
|
|
1988
[4]
|
Susan Wright,
A Lie of the Mind
|
|
1989
[5]
|
Tanja Jacobs, Under the Skin
|
|
1990
|
Nancy Beatty,
Love and Anger
|
|
1991
|
Seana McKenna, Saint Joan
|
|
1992
|
Nicola Cavendish,
Shirley Valentine
|
|
1993
|
Fiona Reid, Fallen Angels
|
|
1994
|
Brenda Robins,
Dancing at Lughnasa
|
|
1995
[6]
|
Fiona Reid,
Six Degrees of Separation
|
|
1996
|
Nicola Cavendish, Later Life
|
|
1997
|
Lilo Baur, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
|
|
1998
|
Kristen Thomson, Problem Child
|
|
1999
|
Nancy Beatty, Risk Everything
|
|
2000
|
Nora McLellan, Music for Contortionist
|
|
2001
|
Kristen Thomson,
I, Claudia
[7]
|
|
2002
|
Yanna McIntosh, Skylight
|
|
2003
|
Kristina Nicoll,
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
|
|
2004
|
Caroline Cave,
The Syringa Tree
|
|
2005
|
Irene Poole, The Leisure Society
|
|
2006
|
d'bi young, blood.claat — one womban story
|
|
2007
|
Seana McKenna,
Orpheus Descending
|
|
2008
|
Lally Cadeau, Rose
|
|
2009
|
Alison Sealy-Smith,
A Raisin in the Sun
|
|
2010
|
Tara Rosling, If We Were Birds
|
|
2011
|
Yanna McIntosh,
Ruined
|
|
2012
[8]
|
Pamela Mala Sinha, Crash
|
|
2013
|
Irene Poole, The Little Years
|
|
2014
|
Carly Street, Venus in Fur
|
|
2015
|
Nicky Guadagni, Hooked
|
|
2016
|
Rebecca Northan, Blind Date
|
|
2017
|
Maev Beaty, The Last Wife
|
|
2018
|
Michaela Washburn, Confederation & Riel
|
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