Creative & Production Team
Kiersten Noel (Music/Lyrics) - Kiersten is a performer, composer, educator, and music director originally from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. As a performer, she has worked with many Newfoundland-based theatre companies including TADA Events, Atlantic Light Theatre, Peter MacDonald Productions, Opera on the Avalon, and Best Kind Productions, where she is currently Artistic Associate. As a writer, Kiersten has collaborated on hope (with Timothy Matson), 'Til We Rise - a Virtual Song Cycle (with Timothy Matson), and Girls from Away (with Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton, Nicole Smith, and Timothy Matson). She has also been a private voice teacher for over a decade.
She's a big curling fan but thinks Kevin Koe seems very serious all the time and she would like for him to crack a smile.
Timothy Matson (Book/Lyrics) - Timothy is a performer, writer, director, and educator originally from Carrboro, North Carolina who now calls St. John's home. He has directed for Rennie's Fall Musicals, Ghostlight Theater Camp, Second Light Productions, Mount Pearl Senior High School, NYU Steinhardt, and Best Kind Productions, where he currently serves as Co-Artistic Director. As a writer, he wrote the play The Stars Are Always Brighter When the Lights Go Out (Best Kind Productions, October 2018), a new adaptation of Pirates of Penzance for an all-youth cast (Best Kind Productions, August 2015), and has collaborated with Kiersten Noel on hope, 'Til We Rise, and Girls From Away (also with Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton). He is developing a play based on a true story, centred in the South Coast, Newfoundland community of Rencontre East.
He really loves to watch curling and cheer for hometown heroes Team Gushue. One time, right after talking about the plot of this show, Kiersten and he saw Brad Gushue in a grocery store parking lot. They took it as a good sign.
Kyle McDavid (Producer/Graphic Design/Musical Director) - Kyle is a producer, director, writer, educator, and graphic designer. As Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Best Kind Productions, he has produced over forty events over the past eleven years, including mainstage musicals, summer kids musicals, cabarets, readings, and workshops. As a graphic designer, Kyle has designed for a long list of arts organizations, including Best Kind Productions, Shallaway Youth Choir, Kittiwake Dance Theatre, Theatre St. John's, Peter MacDonald Productions, and many more. He has also designed many posters and album covers for independent artists, is the Marketing Manager for the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and an an avid performer with many St. John's-based theatre organizations. As a musical theatre writer, Kyle has written original musicals including Impresario, How Do You Get to Jellybean Row?, Sidewalk Dandelion (commissioned for Shallaway Youth Choir's neurodiverse ensemble, Lauda) and more.
Kyle curled once in high school gym class with packing tape on his shoes so he could slide across the ice.
Tanya Lasby (Choreographer) is a performer, choreographer, and instructor in St. John’s. Tanya has been in shows such as Chicago, Evita, Our Divas Do Christmas (TaDa!), Grease, Mary Poppins (Theatre St. John’s) and has award winning choreographic pieces for both CPSOD and Ignite. Tanya has been fortunate enough to be involved in Second Shot since it’s early incarnation as a reading in Tim and Kiersten’s living room. Tanya’s first experience with curling was back in high school. Her gym class went to the local rink for a term to learn how to curl. From the challenge of getting the release of the rock just right, to being a part of the sweeping team that successfully sticks the rock in the house; the game of curling is a thrill to play. Tanya is excited to be a part of the team to bring this game to life on stage! Thank you to Tim and Kiersten and Best Kind Productions.m Also, a big thank you goes out to her family and friends for their continued support and love. Hurry Hard!
Jordan Vincer (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of Ryerson University’s School of Performance where he graduated with a B.F.A in performance
production. Jordan’s select stage management credits credits include Area of Uncertainty, The Tempest (2022 Perchance Theatre), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Honky Tonk Laundry, To The Girls (2021 Stephenville Theatre Festival), Once: The Musical (2018 Theatre St. John’s), Dido and Belinda (2019 Opera QTO), and Assistant Stage Manager of No Change in the Weather (2018 and 2021 Terra Bruce Productions), These Are My Mountains (2021 Terra Bruce Productions), and Tosca (2018 OOTA). Jordan is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Best Kind Productions and hopes you enjoy the show! You can find Jordan on instagram @jordanvincer.
Brian Kenny (Sound Designer) - Brian is a designer for theatre and performance from Mt. Pearl and is a graduate from The National Theatre School of Canada, The Banff Cenre for the Arts, and Sheridan College. Recent selected credits include: Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down, Between Breaths [Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland], Dear Rita [The Charlottetown Festival], The Dialysis Project [RCA Theatre Company], Come from Away in Concert [Mirvish Productions], The Rocky Horror Show, Billy Elliott [The Stratford Festival], Tibb's Eve, Chapel Arm [Mindless Theatrics], Mary Poppins [The Grand Theatre, London], Once, Mamma Mia [Theatre St. John's]. Brian is a member of the board of directors for RCA as well as the I.A.T.S.E. Local 659, the Associated Designers of Canada.
Brian is an avid curling fan who doesn’t miss a Brier or Scotties. While he’s never actually played - he is very confident he would be a decent sweeper as he is equally passionate about this Swiffer Sweeper as he is about this great sport. Brian also shares his deep passion for mixed doubles with his wife Crystal, whom he is sure would kick his butt at a draw to the button.
Crystal Laffoley (Production Manager) - Crystal is a professional Stage Manager, Production Manager, and Arts Administrator originally from New Brunswick. She is a graduate of St. Thomas University (BA, Hons.) and the National Theatre School of Canada (Production Design & Technical Arts). She has worked at NTS as a Production Coach annually since 2014. Her work has taken her across Eastern Canada, working on stages indoors and out, on touring productions, classical texts, new works, puppet shows, musicals, dance pieces, sketch comedy, contemporary plays, and multimedia projects. Crystal is currently Associate Producer with Artistic Fraud.
Crystal's curling career peaked in 1995 when her junior curling team swept up the bronze medal at a provincial tournament in New Brunswick. She doesn't remember having a solid grasp of any curling strategies, but she does remember sitting for hours while her mother plaited her waist-length hair into tiny braids pre-tournament (after all, it was the 90s). Now in retirement, Crystal spends her time counting down the days to curling tournament season, and she believes that the addition of Mixed Doubles Curling is the best thing to ever happen to the Olympics.
Emily Austin (Set Design) is a multidisciplinary artist based in St. John’s, NL. She has worked as a Set Designer, Stage Manager and Technical Director for many productions in Theatre, Opera, Circus and Dance. More recently she has stepped into similar roles in TV & Film, while also Co-Creating, Co-Directing and designing a new piece of movement based Theatre with some of her fellow BFA Graduates from Memorial’s Grenfell Campus’s Theatre program.
Bob Stamp (Lighting Design) Originally from St. John’s, Bob has recently moved back home after nearly 40 years away. While primarily engaged in lighting, Bob’s career has led him through production design and management for stage and screen with hundreds of designs for both television and performing arts productions. His first job in theatre was on the stage of the Arts and Culture Centre in 1976 and he is delighted to be back.
Mara Bredovskis (Production Assistant)
Sara Dorey (Scenic Painting)
She's a big curling fan but thinks Kevin Koe seems very serious all the time and she would like for him to crack a smile.
Timothy Matson (Book/Lyrics) - Timothy is a performer, writer, director, and educator originally from Carrboro, North Carolina who now calls St. John's home. He has directed for Rennie's Fall Musicals, Ghostlight Theater Camp, Second Light Productions, Mount Pearl Senior High School, NYU Steinhardt, and Best Kind Productions, where he currently serves as Co-Artistic Director. As a writer, he wrote the play The Stars Are Always Brighter When the Lights Go Out (Best Kind Productions, October 2018), a new adaptation of Pirates of Penzance for an all-youth cast (Best Kind Productions, August 2015), and has collaborated with Kiersten Noel on hope, 'Til We Rise, and Girls From Away (also with Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton). He is developing a play based on a true story, centred in the South Coast, Newfoundland community of Rencontre East.
He really loves to watch curling and cheer for hometown heroes Team Gushue. One time, right after talking about the plot of this show, Kiersten and he saw Brad Gushue in a grocery store parking lot. They took it as a good sign.
Kyle McDavid (Producer/Graphic Design/Musical Director) - Kyle is a producer, director, writer, educator, and graphic designer. As Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Best Kind Productions, he has produced over forty events over the past eleven years, including mainstage musicals, summer kids musicals, cabarets, readings, and workshops. As a graphic designer, Kyle has designed for a long list of arts organizations, including Best Kind Productions, Shallaway Youth Choir, Kittiwake Dance Theatre, Theatre St. John's, Peter MacDonald Productions, and many more. He has also designed many posters and album covers for independent artists, is the Marketing Manager for the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and an an avid performer with many St. John's-based theatre organizations. As a musical theatre writer, Kyle has written original musicals including Impresario, How Do You Get to Jellybean Row?, Sidewalk Dandelion (commissioned for Shallaway Youth Choir's neurodiverse ensemble, Lauda) and more.
Kyle curled once in high school gym class with packing tape on his shoes so he could slide across the ice.
Tanya Lasby (Choreographer) is a performer, choreographer, and instructor in St. John’s. Tanya has been in shows such as Chicago, Evita, Our Divas Do Christmas (TaDa!), Grease, Mary Poppins (Theatre St. John’s) and has award winning choreographic pieces for both CPSOD and Ignite. Tanya has been fortunate enough to be involved in Second Shot since it’s early incarnation as a reading in Tim and Kiersten’s living room. Tanya’s first experience with curling was back in high school. Her gym class went to the local rink for a term to learn how to curl. From the challenge of getting the release of the rock just right, to being a part of the sweeping team that successfully sticks the rock in the house; the game of curling is a thrill to play. Tanya is excited to be a part of the team to bring this game to life on stage! Thank you to Tim and Kiersten and Best Kind Productions.m Also, a big thank you goes out to her family and friends for their continued support and love. Hurry Hard!
Jordan Vincer (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of Ryerson University’s School of Performance where he graduated with a B.F.A in performance
production. Jordan’s select stage management credits credits include Area of Uncertainty, The Tempest (2022 Perchance Theatre), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Honky Tonk Laundry, To The Girls (2021 Stephenville Theatre Festival), Once: The Musical (2018 Theatre St. John’s), Dido and Belinda (2019 Opera QTO), and Assistant Stage Manager of No Change in the Weather (2018 and 2021 Terra Bruce Productions), These Are My Mountains (2021 Terra Bruce Productions), and Tosca (2018 OOTA). Jordan is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Best Kind Productions and hopes you enjoy the show! You can find Jordan on instagram @jordanvincer.
Brian Kenny (Sound Designer) - Brian is a designer for theatre and performance from Mt. Pearl and is a graduate from The National Theatre School of Canada, The Banff Cenre for the Arts, and Sheridan College. Recent selected credits include: Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down, Between Breaths [Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland], Dear Rita [The Charlottetown Festival], The Dialysis Project [RCA Theatre Company], Come from Away in Concert [Mirvish Productions], The Rocky Horror Show, Billy Elliott [The Stratford Festival], Tibb's Eve, Chapel Arm [Mindless Theatrics], Mary Poppins [The Grand Theatre, London], Once, Mamma Mia [Theatre St. John's]. Brian is a member of the board of directors for RCA as well as the I.A.T.S.E. Local 659, the Associated Designers of Canada.
Brian is an avid curling fan who doesn’t miss a Brier or Scotties. While he’s never actually played - he is very confident he would be a decent sweeper as he is equally passionate about this Swiffer Sweeper as he is about this great sport. Brian also shares his deep passion for mixed doubles with his wife Crystal, whom he is sure would kick his butt at a draw to the button.
Crystal Laffoley (Production Manager) - Crystal is a professional Stage Manager, Production Manager, and Arts Administrator originally from New Brunswick. She is a graduate of St. Thomas University (BA, Hons.) and the National Theatre School of Canada (Production Design & Technical Arts). She has worked at NTS as a Production Coach annually since 2014. Her work has taken her across Eastern Canada, working on stages indoors and out, on touring productions, classical texts, new works, puppet shows, musicals, dance pieces, sketch comedy, contemporary plays, and multimedia projects. Crystal is currently Associate Producer with Artistic Fraud.
Crystal's curling career peaked in 1995 when her junior curling team swept up the bronze medal at a provincial tournament in New Brunswick. She doesn't remember having a solid grasp of any curling strategies, but she does remember sitting for hours while her mother plaited her waist-length hair into tiny braids pre-tournament (after all, it was the 90s). Now in retirement, Crystal spends her time counting down the days to curling tournament season, and she believes that the addition of Mixed Doubles Curling is the best thing to ever happen to the Olympics.
Emily Austin (Set Design) is a multidisciplinary artist based in St. John’s, NL. She has worked as a Set Designer, Stage Manager and Technical Director for many productions in Theatre, Opera, Circus and Dance. More recently she has stepped into similar roles in TV & Film, while also Co-Creating, Co-Directing and designing a new piece of movement based Theatre with some of her fellow BFA Graduates from Memorial’s Grenfell Campus’s Theatre program.
Bob Stamp (Lighting Design) Originally from St. John’s, Bob has recently moved back home after nearly 40 years away. While primarily engaged in lighting, Bob’s career has led him through production design and management for stage and screen with hundreds of designs for both television and performing arts productions. His first job in theatre was on the stage of the Arts and Culture Centre in 1976 and he is delighted to be back.
Mara Bredovskis (Production Assistant)
Sara Dorey (Scenic Painting)
