Bella Luz

A SkirtsAfire Festival / Ruby Slippers Theatre Production

By Alexandra Lainfiesta
Directed by Jenna Rodgers

What if your future depended on winning a game designed for you to fail?

A recipient of the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Silver Commission, part of Ruby Slippers Theatre’s 2026 Advance Theatre Festival, and written by Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Award-winner Alexandra Lainfiesta, Bella Luz is a fierce, fast-paced, and inventive dive into the world of the modern immigrant experience.

Sumailla is an unstoppable dancer who takes a job in the high-octane film stunt industry to build a life in Canada. But as her on-set life directly collides with her family’s reality back home in Guatemala, Sumailla wrestles with the moral compromises needed to secure her future in Canada.

Blending razor-sharp parody and bold theatrical energy, Bella Luz exposes the contradictions of an immigrant’s experience in Canada with equal parts humor and heart.

*Individual tickets for this production go on sale, DEC 1.

CREDITS:
Scott Bellis, Ensemble
Tatiana Duque, Ensemble
Jackie T. Hanlin, Ensemble
Alexandra Lainfiesta, Ensemble
Gabriela Reynoso, Ensemble
Alexandra Lainfiesta, Playwright
Jenna Rodgers, Director
Jennifer Wilson, Stage Manager
Macy McCubbing, Apprentice Stage Manager
TBA, Fight/Intimacy/Dance Choreographer
Kimira Reddy, Set Design
Whittyn Jason, Lighting Design
Mishelle Cuttler, Sound Design
Candelario Andrade, Projection Design
Ximena Pinilla, Costume Design
Ash Shotton, PM/TD

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ABOUT SKIRTSAFIRE FESTIVAL
Founded in 2012, SkirtsAfire is Edmonton’s theatre and multidisciplinary arts organization featuring women. In conjunction with International Women’s Day, their 10 day festival runs each March at various venues in the city. They present powerful and insightful stories to a diverse audience that is hungry to be moved by passionate performances and exhibitions. Join them each year to be immersed in powerful, beautiful, engaging performances, exhibits and workshops in Theatre, Poetry, Spoken Word, Design, Art, Dance, Cabaret, Music, Comedy, and more. Programming reflects the true diversity of the thriving arts community in Alberta and Canada, and is adaptive in its approach in order to remain responsive to the needs of artists and audiences.

ABOUT RUBY SLIPPERS THEATRE
Multi award winning Ruby Slippers Theatre was co-founded by a collective of female-identifying artists from various disciplines (Sandra Lockwood, Katrina and Deborah Dunn, Diane Brown) and incorporated in 1992. Katrina and Diane shared leadership for several years as Co-Artistic Directors, then as Artistic Director/Associate Artistic Director. Diane became the sole Artistic Director in 1998. Ruby Slippers Theatre’s (RST) vision is an inclusive world where diversity is celebrated through a deeper understanding of each other. Our mission is to realize that vision by illuminating under-represented perspectives and giving voice to diverse artists from across the country including Quebec works in English translation. RST defines diversity as all cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, identities, abilities and ages.