The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Performer (General Theatre) is an annual
Canadian theatre award, presented as part of the
Dora Mavor Moore Awards to honour the year's best performance in a leading role in a stage production in the
Toronto theatre market.
At the first awards in 1980, a single ungendered category was presented, with two winners. The following year, separate awards were presented for
Best Leading Actor and
Best Leading Actress, which remained in place until TAPA announced in 2018 that they would return to presenting ungendered acting categories.[1]
^Debra Yeo, "Dora Awards go gender neutral for 40th edition: First show of its kind in Canada to adopt fully inclusive policy". Toronto Star, May 29, 2019.
^"Dora Awards honour lifetime achievement in theatre as COVID-19 shuts down live shows: Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrates lifetime contributions after COVID-19 pandemic shut down live performances". The Globe and Mail, June 16, 2021.