Inclusive design champion Kat Holmes, First Nations artist Robert Houle, telecommunications leader Philip B. Lind, community builder Nancy McCain, and Rosemary Sadlier, a founder of Black History Month in Canada, are the honorands.
Brooks made waves with many shows that were outside the mainstream, and he also directed The Drowsy Chaperone, a Toronto Fringe Festival hit that went to Broadway and won a Tony Award
The east-end Toronto theatre company helmed by artistic director Chris Abraham received 18 Dora nominations in total, for five different shows it produced or co-produced