BirdLand Theatre

04/22/2023

We are delighted to invite you to the reading of "Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle" featuring extraordinary Kim Nelson and David Ferry. This is not a play about a German physicist. Simon Stephens masterfully sets the random encounter between two people at a train station. What follows is a beautiful unfolding of the universe between a 42 years old American woman and a 75 years old British man.
This reading is directed by Stefan Dzeparoski.
Huge thanks to BMO Lab - Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at U of T for generously supporting this event.

02/05/2023

Our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski is presenting at the FOOT31 conference "We Live Together", at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at U of T Stefan is inviting you to follow the TWITTER account StoryBuildingInMotion tag:
You will receive hints and information about story-building. Join this interactive presentation and participate in the exploration of gamification of story-building.
February 9th, at 4pm in the Performance Studio

11/30/2022

It is Wednesday but it is still a giving time. BirdLand Theatre has big and exciting plans for 2023.

We are bringing you the Children's Academy for Creative Living.

Be our hero-builder and contribute to bringing creativity and mindfulness to children and youth.

Visit https://fnd.us/626q65?ref=sh_bBxT8c to learn more and become our hero.

11/27/2022

Hello Friends! We are building something new. Something that we have been passionate about for a very long time. We dream of the future and create it with our actions. Have a look and become a hero of this exciting journey. Join us in building something new for children. Thank you all and see you soon! More news to come.

Learning about mindfulness and creative skills through dramatic arts. Nurturing the mental and emotional well-being of children through playfully creative practices. Making children aware of their creative potential is key to their success as adults.

09/19/2022

Going down memory lane this Monday. Our DORA Award-winning production of Stephen Sondheims' ASSASSINS directed by wonderful Adam Brazier

09/18/2022

The Seven Cycles of You - A Creative Meditation Workshop

Soon in person!

09/18/2022

During the last two years, we have been busy with our unique Creative Meditation outreach program The Seven Cycles of You. After many days of this program being exclusively online, we are ready to announce our first in-person Creative Mediation experience.
Stay tuned for more info coming soon.

09/18/2022

Thinking about THE BIRDS by Conor McPherson. Incredible Tony Naumovski in our production of this extraordinary play at 59E59 Theaters in NYC.

06/25/2022

Our friends at Preamble Productions are inviting you to their new show JOHN WHO. Written by Ken Pak, and Directed by our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski, John Who will take you on the most unexpected theatre journey. This Summer at The Toronto Fringe


https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/john-who

John is a playwright in crisis. As he writes his ‘Last Play’, his four opinionated yet inspirational muses create chaos, just as his past and present collide. Is he suffering from severe writer’s block? Or losing his grip on reality?

06/18/2022

This Summer to the Toronto Fringe our friends from Preamble Productions are bringing a fast-paced, anything-goes live deconstruction of a playwright in crisis - JOHN WHO.
Help make it happen for JOHN WHO 'Book-Drive' Fundraiser

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/john-who-book-drive-fundraiser--2/x/29580617 #/

05/24/2022

Our director & creative producer Stefan Dzeparoski wrote for Intermission about Artist. We Do Not Talk About Artist https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/artist-perspective/we-do-not-talk-about-artist/

Art is born out of this conflicted world... Do we need to clarify the position of the Artist if we as the public truly want to be healed?

05/20/2022

Ken Pak writer/actor/director and our creative producer & director Stefan Dzeparoski are collaborating on the new theatre project John Who that will premiere this Summer at Toronto Fringe.

Asian Heritage Month Artist Spotlight:
KEN PAK
Actor, Director, Writer
Toronto, ON

Ken Pak is a Toronto based actor working in tv/film/theatre/commercials. His most recent credits include Locke & Key (Netflix), Feel the Beat (Netflix), Tales from the Loop (Amazon), In the Dark (CBS), and The End of S*x.

As a filmmaker, his short films have been official selections at over 25 international film festivals, including: Cambridge Film Festival (UK), Newport Beach Film Festival (US), Ojai Film Festival (US), San Jose Short Film Festival (US), and Victoria Independent Film Festival (AUS). His current project is his play JOHN WHO, which will be presented at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2022.

04/27/2022

Phil Rickaby of Stageworthy Podcast in conversation with our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski. Listen to this excellent episode that touches on many feelings about Canadian Theatre. Also, support however you can Theatre and Stageworthy Podcast

https://stageworthypodcast.com/320-stefan-dzeparoski/

Stefan is a Serbian-born, Toronto-based international director and creative producer. He is best known for his interdisciplinary stage practices merging film, digital and live performance. Stefan’s work has been seen on stages in Europe, Canada, and Off-Broadway. He is a Director and Creative Prod...

03/14/2022

A little TBT to different times shared with our beautiful friend and collaborator Tony Naumovski Photo is from BIRDS by Conor McPherson produced at 59E59 Theaters

We did 'Birds' by Conor McPherson in NYC at 59E59 Theaters
The world of 'Birds' has been coming back to us during these extraodinary days.

On the photo incredible Tony Naumovski https://www.facebook.com/Tony-Naumovski-252181128234847/

"this play is a standout, a thriller in its own right with intriguing characters, intense dialogue and its own suspenseful storyline. Performed in an intimate theatre space, the play features excellent staging and a talented cast. It will keep you on the edge of your seat...The Birds is a stark and compelling view of human desperation in the face of dire circumstances." - Broadway World

12/02/2021

This is a personal piece by our director and creative producer Stefan Dzeparoski on the importance of The Theatre Times for global localism, marginalized cultures, and migrant cultural workers.
"The Theatre Times provides necessary internationalism for many unrepresented and underrepresented theatre communities for global localism, marginalized cultures, and migrant cultural workers. kind of theatre that will not be bound by the language and market-driven metrics".


https://thetheatretimes.com/how-i-met-thetheatretimes-com/

With 32 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, covering theatre in 90 countries and regions, and over 60 media partners around the world, we are the largest global theatre portal today. Follow us today!

11/26/2021

The Theatre Times & The Future Stage - MANIFESTO-

With 32 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, covering theatre in 90 countries and regions, and over 60 media partners around the world, we are the largest global theatre portal today. Follow us today!

11/20/2021

A Manifesto for the Future Theatre via The Theatre Times
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With 32 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, covering theatre in 90 countries and regions, and over 60 media partners around the world, we are the largest global theatre portal today. Follow us today!

09/27/2021

Our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski wrote about an exciting FOLDA festival for The Theatre Times Spiderwebshow

08/14/2021

https://fb.watch/7nSW2mLpY-/

Another week for INTERNAL INIQUITY at Boulder Fringe Festival! A thought-provoking piece of digital theatre challenging the societies norms through powerful storytelling. This is a show not to be missed!

08/08/2021

Do not miss this show. INTERNAL INIQUITY directed by our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski. An intriguing tale of forbidden passion and obsession at the Boulder Fringe Festival. For more info 👇

https://fb.watch/7fZzA_nUMp/

08/04/2021

Here is the first trailer for INTERNAL INIQUITY by Adriana Berardocco directed by our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski. An uncomfortable subject and difficult story at the Boulder Fringe in a few days.

For more info visit:
https://www.boulderfringe.com/event/internal-iniquity-2/

07/31/2021

Exciting news: Project "Re: Contact" authored by our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski, and Dejan Jankovic from Artepunkt is selected in the top 20 among 1327 applications from major European theaters and independent companies by PERFORM EUROPE. "Re: Contact" is the prototype of the vision for a new theater, international touring, collaboration, and cooperation.

Congratulations to Dejan, Stefan, and Artepunkt! 😊 Cheers 🥂

07/24/2021

Here it is - INTERNAL INIQUITY - going to Boulder Fringe this August. Innovative and thought-provoking staging by our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski will take you down to the corners of an intriguing world written by talented Adriana Berardocco.

INTERNAL INIQUITY features Andrew Pawarroo in the title role of MAN and production design by Liliana DeAngelis.

We are happy to support and promote INTERNAL INIQUITY.
For more details visit 👇👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/internaliniquityshow/

A one act, one scene, staged thought-piece. MAN admits to VOICE that, to his own horror and disgust, he has fallen for underaged Vanessa. With VOICE hovering over, MAN must admit what he did to land him in this internal crisis, and the cost of desire.

07/11/2021

The dates are here for INTERNAL INIQUITY at www.boulderfringe.com
Our Director & Creative Producer, Stefan Dzeparoski is preparing something special together with
Adriana Berardocco Andrew Pawarroo Liliana DeAngelis

Stay tuned!
See you at the Fringe

06/28/2021

We are happy to announce that our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski is heading this summer to the Boulder International Fringe Festival www.boulderfringe.com, with new work from Adriana DeAngelis Adriana Berardocco - INTERNAL INIQUITY.

Stay tuned for more info about this intriguing new Digital Theatre work.

06/21/2021

It has been a year of extremes and during that time, we were focused on helping many, in expanding their creative consciousness. Our Creative Meditation program, THE SEVEN CYCLES OF YOU has reached internationally to many people. The program assisted them in awakening the possibilities for a creative living. The program was done online due to a pandemic. We are announcing happy and exciting news.
Stay tuned.
The news will be local.

05/22/2021

It was in the early June of 2020 when we started talking with fine folks from creative StartUp Plots.Plays based in Belgrade, Serbia how art and mental health are connected. The idea is to look at Artist as a Healer. Our Director & Creative Producer Stefan Dzeparoski collaborated in creating this video for the future HOPSCOTCH project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_Rw5XM974

The Hopscotch is a transmedia project that tells the story of love in the time of lies and evil. The project is inspired by the famous M. Scott Peck's book "...

05/22/2021

Once upon a time in a world before the pandemic, we coproduced with Artepunkt from Belgrade, Serbia a project called MARI(J)A IS EVERYWHERE. Inspired by the plays ABYSS and NOISE from German playwright Maria Milisavljevic, we created a unique theatrical experience. What we did not know at the time was that the remote producing model we embraced for this project will become a standard practice in pandemic times.
Concept and Direction by Stefan Dzeparoski & Dejan Jankovic

05/02/2021

Happy Orthodox Easter to all those who celebrate today.

Love.

04/22/2021

Walking on Earth every day we still need a day to be the reminder that we still walk on Earth. Every step has a consequence. Earth Day 2021.

"EARTH PRAYER

Hey! Learn to hear my feeble voice.
At the center of the sacred hoop
You have said that I should make the tree to bloom.

With tears running, O Great Spirit, my Grandfather,
With running eyes I must say
The tree has never bloomed.

Here I stand, and the tree is withered.
Again, I recall the great vision you gave me.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives.
Nourish it then
That it may leaf
And bloom
And fill with singing birds!

Hear me, that the people may once again
Find the good road
And the shielding tree".

- Black Elk