An action-packed drama with heart, dark humour, and song, And Bella Sang with Us is inspired by Canada's first women police officers, Constables Minnie Miller and Lurancy Harris, and a remarkable story in Ladies of the Night, a career memoire by Calgary police officer, Margaret Gildes. Hired in Vancouver in 1912 to deal with 'the female morality question', Miller and Harris battle prejudice and condescension; a child-prostitute and her hulking, brain-damaged female champion; one another, and their own limitations and demons.

Sally Stubbs is an award-winning Vancouver-based playwright and educator who also performs, directs and produces. She is currently co-writing a musical set in Vancouver; a TV pilot inspired by Vancouver's first women police officers and her play And Bella Sang With Us; and webisodes inspired by her script Centurions. Sally's published plays include: Wreckage; Herr Beckmann's People; and And Bella Sang With Us (Scirocco Drama). An excerpt of Centurions was published in Ryga: A Journal of Provocations Number 2, (March 2010); and a brief excerpt of Our Ghosts was published online in Understory Magazine Issue 16 (2019): Diverse Stories of Women on Stage.

Sally was born in Winnipeg, where she still has cousins. She was raised in Victoria on Vancouver Island and completed two undergraduate degrees as well as a Master's Degrees in Art History and Writing at UVic where she also taught writing. She, her partner and their cat live in Vancouver, but go back to Victoria a lot. They miss the climate - yes, it's drier than Vancouver - WP, the wild ocean, the slower pace, and old friends.

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