Bird on Stage Productions

Bird on Stage Productions Outsider theatre for outsider audiences. Unapologetically different. Northern & T.O based. Jewish-led. Putting Birds on Stage since 2017!

05/30/2026

The two Sues are trying to keep it together. They practice and practice their leg kicks to make the perfect TikTok.
The Twin Sues is a darkly funny new Canadian play filled with border checkpoints, political paranoia, fishing culture, diner coffee, and two former best friends forced back together under very strange circumstances.

We genuinely can’t wait for people to experience this world.

June 10th-14th at The Assembly Theatre, 1479 Queen st W!
TICKETS ARE LIVE NOW‼️

05/28/2026

POV: this is how independent theatre marketing works now.
Come see The Twin Sues before we lose our minds completely.
Tickets live now, click the LINK in BIO!

05/24/2026

THE BORDER IS OPEN. THE TICKETS ARE TOO. 🚨

A dark comedy about borders, bureaucracy, and two women somehow sharing both a bridge and a history.

It’s weird. It’s sharp. It’s probably too Canadian to survive.
📍 June 10-14
📍 Assembly Theatre, Toronto
Tickets are linked in bio. Cross while you still can.

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE FOR THE TWIN SUESTICKETS: https://www.tixtree.com/e/the-twin-sues-fea52689aa2cA new Canadian play b...
05/23/2026

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE FOR THE TWIN SUES

TICKETS: https://www.tixtree.com/e/the-twin-sues-fea52689aa2c

A new Canadian play by award-winning playwright Garrett M. Ryan!

In the middle of a fictional American-Canadian war, the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie have been annexed and forced back together under a single rule. The border is gone. The system remains.

At the centre of it all: two women. Same name. Same past. Very different present.

Sue Johnson and Sue Jackson, once inseparable, known as the “Twin Sues”, now stand on opposite sides of something they no longer fully understand, sharing control of a checkpoint on a newly nationalized bridge. What used to divide them has disappeared. What still binds them… is harder to escape.

What begins as routine slips, slowly and quietly, into something else. Power lingers. Roles calcify. And the question of who belongs, where, and to what, refuses to go away.

Told through a darkly comic, documentary-style lens, The Twin Sues is sharp, unsettling, and unexpectedly human. It’s about borders, but also about friendship, identity, and the systems we inherit long after they’ve stopped making sense.

Dr. Strangelove meets Corner Gas, with the absurdity of The Death of Stalin.

📍 June 10th-14th

📍 The Assembly Theatre, Toronto

Limited capacity. Intimate space. Don’t wait, this is the kind of show people talk about after they’ve seen it.





And to round off our Cast ans Crew announcements for “The Twin Sues”! Tipelo Hildebrand is a Toronto-based actor, creato...
05/21/2026

And to round off our Cast ans Crew announcements for “The Twin Sues”!

Tipelo Hildebrand is a Toronto-based actor, creator, and arts marketer who loves storytelling that is strange, heartfelt, and deeply human. She is incredibly excited to be playing Sue Johnson in The Twin Sues and feels very grateful to be part of bringing this funny, absurd, and surprisingly emotional world to life alongside such a passionate indie team.

A graduate of the Acting Conservatory at York University, Tipelo is especially drawn to work that explores connection, loneliness, identity, and the complicated ways people try to care for each other inside systems that often make that difficult. 

Outside of performing, Tipelo is also the Director of Marketing & Outreach and co-owner of Bird On Stage Productions, where she helps build community-driven spaces for emerging and independent artists in Toronto. Being part of small teams making ambitious work from the ground up has become one of the most meaningful parts of her artistic life.
As a neurodiverse artist, she cares deeply about creating work that makes people feel seen, understood, and a little less alone. The Twin Suesfeels especially close to her heart because, beneath all its satire, border paranoia, and dark comedy, it is really a story about friendship, belonging, and what happens when the world changes faster than people know how to.

Shows June 10th-14th at Assembly Theatre. Tickets on sale SO soon!

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Katelyn Doyle (she/her) is a classically trained Canadian actor and creator. Katelyn is a co-founding member of Half Bli...
05/20/2026

Katelyn Doyle (she/her) is a classically trained Canadian actor and creator. Katelyn is a co-founding member of Half Blind Owl, a theatre collective dedicated to creating original offbeat Canadian theatre. Katelyn loves new Canadian work and is so stoked to be bringing the Twin Sues to life. For a detailed outline of Katelyn’s work and credits, check out www.katelyndoyle.com.

Upcoming: The Player, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Thaumatrope Theatre, 2026), Kitty, Pride and Prejudice (Wren Theatre, 2027)

Selected Credits Include: Kitty, Pride and Prejudice (Wren Theatre, 2026); The King, Menace to Society (In the Soil Festival, 2025); Lola, Heel (Alumnae Theatre NIF, 2025) Cecile Volongaes, Dangerous Liaisons (Wren Theatre, 2025)

Shows June 10th-14th at Assembly Theatre. Tickets on sale SO soon!

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Bunya Muchaeva is a Toronto-based designer specializing in furniture, sculpture and set design. With a background in Env...
05/19/2026

Bunya Muchaeva is a Toronto-based designer specializing in furniture, sculpture and set design. With a background in Environmental Design from OCAD University, her work spans fabrication, curation, and space-shape interaction. She has exhibited butter sculptures at the Royal Winter Fair, had a solo furniture exhibition in December, and received NP Architect award for innovative and creative design work during her thesis. Bunya is currently working as an Assistant Set & Prop Designer on the premiere of The Twin Sues with Bird on Stage Productions. She has especially loved the collaborative nature of the design process, as well as finding creative ways to build a visually poetic world within the theatre set. 

Shows June 10th-14th at Assembly Theatre. Tickets on sale SO soon!

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Madeleine Gagnon (Set, Costume & Props Designer) is excited to be working on “The Twin Sues” in her first production wit...
05/18/2026

Madeleine Gagnon (Set, Costume & Props Designer) is excited to be working on “The Twin Sues” in her first production with Bird on Stage and Assembly Theatre. Madeleine is an emerging local Theatre Designer and Illustrator with a great passion for art, design, and performance. She received her BFA in Theatre from York University’s Performance Creation and Design program, during her time at York she worked as a Set Designer for the Devised Theatre Festival. Since graduating she has garnered credits in both theatre and film; most recently working as the Design Assistant for the Canadian Stage production of A Doll’s House. She was also the Assistant Set Designer for The Sankofa Trilogy by Watah Theatre at the Theatre Centre and was the Set, Costume & Props Designer for the Toronto Fringe show Koli Kari by Ganesh Thava. Other credits include Set Design for the short film Cherry On Top, Production Assistant for Shadowland Theatre, Costume and Props Assistant for TFO, Scenic Painting for Coal Mine Theatre. Outside of theatre and film, Madeleine works as the Uniform Lead at the Canadian Opera Company.

Shows June 10th-14th at Assembly Theatre. Tickets on sale SO soon!

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Robert is a Jewish American/Canadian theatre practicioner, who joined the Bird on Stage Productions team in 2018, origin...
05/17/2026

Robert is a Jewish American/Canadian theatre practicioner, who joined the Bird on Stage Productions team in 2018, originally just as an actor. Since then, Robert has been consistently acting, directing, and doing lighting design for the company’s productions, while also working alongside our AD, Garrett M. Ryan Abrams, to create boundary-pushing, innovative theatre as the company’s Artistic Producer. THE TWIN SUES is Robert’s full solo directorial debut for Bird on Stage, and he couldn’t be more excited to be working on such a topical show with all these amazing people involved.

Pencil dive into the world of the twin Soos, and stay for the deeply complicated friendship between the twin Sues. Stand there. Smile. And make sure you have the approved smile width. THE TWIN SUES @ Assembly Theatre, June 10th-14th.

Most recently, Robert has been busy designing and touring in award winning new works across Ontario with Garrett M. Ryan’s Pigeon!. He will also be appearing in Fruitbasket Productions upcoming 2026 Toronto Fringe show, Meat Market, written by Alex Boese and Shaun Soutar.

Meet the first person stepping onto the bridge.
Introducing the cast and crew of The Twin Sues. One by one starting now....
05/16/2026

Meet the first person stepping onto the bridge.
Introducing the cast and crew of The Twin Sues. One by one starting now.

Garrett M. Ryan Abrams is a Northern Ontarian playwright, director, and dramaturg based in Sault Ste. Marie. His work is rooted in the cultures, humour, and anxieties of Northern Ontarian life, often blending working-class realism with genre fiction, satire, and heightened theatricality to challenge conventional narratives about life in the region.

Since beginning his career, Garrett has developed a distinct voice through original work presented across Canada, earning multiple awards and building a body of work focused on outsiders, regional identity, and the communities often left out of Canada’s dominant cultural conversations.

The Twin Sues is a piece Garrett is especially excited to bring to the stage. In various forms, he has been circling the ideas behind the play for nearly a decade, with this specific iteration taking shape since moving to Sault Ste. Marie. Set against the unique reality of a border city, the play’s satire of division, radicalization, and identity has become frighteningly relevant in recent years. Garrett is thrilled to see the work come to life with the incredible cast and crew assembled for this production.

Garrett also serves as the Theatre Manager / Artistic Director of the Sault Community Theatre Centre. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in Theatre & Performance Studies from York University, where his research focused on new play development as a tool for strengthening Northern communities.

Shows June 10th-14th at Assembly Theatre. Tickets on sale SO soon!

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