our 2025/2026 Season
Empowering acts. Fresh perspectives. Resilient spirits.

Kathleen DeGrandis, Diane Brown, Jasmine Chen, Faly Mevamanana and Maria Trocchi. Photo by Emily Cooper Photography.
At Ruby Slippers Theatre we are cooking up a storm!
We have three powerful stories cooking in the creative kitchen for future production that includes a bold new work from Québec by Egyptian Canadian Nathalie Doummar, translated by our Associate Artist extraordinaire Leanna Brodie.
And that’s not all! This season we are premiering The Baking Show Show: The Play by Faly Mevamanana, our Artist in Residence, as part of our newly minted Advance Theatre Production Program, plus another installation of the Advance Theatre Festival which will showcase five plays over five days written and directed by awesome equity deserving artists. Details below!
In the spirit of allyship and collective liberation from our patriarchal colonial past, come one, come all as we transform the world one play at a time!
The Advance Theatre Festival 2026, produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada, is curated by Zahida Rahemtulla. The Festival showcases new works written and directed by female identifying and gender non conforming artists who also identify as IBPOC.
By Faly Mevamanana.
Directed by Jasmine Chen.
A Ruby Slippers Theatre Premiere Production
Two Showings
February 5 – 7, 2026 Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
February 12 – 15, 2026 Presentation House Theatre
Faly Mevamanana is our Artist-In-Residence for 25/26 and Advance Theatre Festival curator for 2027.
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