Red Sky Performance

SHE HOLDS UP THE STARS SHINES BRIGHT WITH 8 DORA AWARD NOMINATIONS!

With 8 Dora Award nominations, we're over the moon to be this season's most nominated production in Toronto!

It's an honour to share this recognition with the extraordinary artists, creative team, and partners who brought this production to life.

Nominations include:
• Outstanding Production — Red Sky Performance.

• Outstanding New Play — Sandra Laronde

• Outstanding Direction — Sandra Laronde

• Outstanding Performance by an Individual — Julia Davis, Marsha Knight, and Mike Shara.

• Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble — Dayna Tietzen, Troy Feldman, and Brad Cook.

• Outstanding Achievement in Design — Nick Barnes

We extend our gratitude to our commissioners and partners: the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, TO Live, National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts' National Creation Fund, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Thank you to the Toronto theatre community, the TAPA Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts and the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts Dora Awards jury for this acknowledgment.

We are all so thrilled and grateful!!!!

Red Sky Performance

Today is Red Dress Day — and we offered the Healing Dress Dance (now widely known as the Jingle Dress Dance) performed by Rylan Bomberry, Hope Osawamick, and Madison Noon in honour of the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People.

This day calls on all of us to focus our attention on ending the disproportionate violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and communities across this country—so that Indigenous sisters are valued, recognized, respected, and safe.

Chi miigwetch to Teme Augama Anishinabek Temagami FirstNation for coming to see She Holds Up the Stars. It meant a great deal to have you in attendance at Roy Thomson Hall here in Toronto.

Thank you to the extraordinary educator Patsy Turner for making this possible for the youth—it was also wonderful to see elder Millie White.

We know that you had to travel across ice, come down a gravel access road, and then along Highway 11 to see this show and then return. We are so grateful that you were here—and that you were able to come backstage and meet some of the performers.

These are the kinds of moments that stay with us for years to come. This work is made for you, and for youth and families like yours.

Two remaining shows for the world premiere of She Holds Up the Stars, on stage at Roy Thomson Hall on Sunday, April 19, 2026, at 1:30pm and 4pm.

She Holds Up the Stars is an original multidisciplinary work -- blending contemporary Indigenous storytelling, theatre, large-scale puppetry, and live orchestral music, the production offers a powerful and emotionally resonant experience for audiences of all ages.

At its heart is a young Indigenous girl searching for her mother’s truth. Through an unexpected bond with a spirited horse, she finds courage and resilience in a world shaped by beauty and cruelty, and the deep pull of land and family.

Get your tix now: https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/she-holds-up-the-stars

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street, Toronto.

(L to R): , (Misko), Grayson Bird (Nimkii), Kehew Buffalo (Nelson), and (Kii) with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

She Holds Up the Stars is commissioned by Toronto Symphony Orchestra in association with TO Live, National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra