Unreconciled at Moving Arts Theater

Jay Sefton [he/him] (Playwright/Performer) is an actor and licensed mental health counselor,

originally from Philadelphia, and currently based in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Selected

theatre credits include: Unreconciled (Writer/Performer, Chester Theatre Company), What the

Constitution Means to Me (WAM Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Group and Capital Rep, Albany),

Honor Killing, Paradise (WAM Theatre, Fresh Takes Reading Series), A Moon for the

Misbegotten, The Lady Slipper, Million Dollar Quartet, Outside Mullingar (The Majestic

Theater), Two Rooms (Silverthorne Theatre Company), The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

(Writer/Performer), A Life in the Theatre, Dark Rapture (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), King

Lear (Theatricum Botanicum, Los Angeles). Jay is the recipient of the LA WEEKLY Award for

Best Solo Performance for The Most Mediocre Story Never Told. Film/TV: The Wire, Grey’s

Anatomy, The Shield, Summerland, Providence. He is a member of Actors’ Equity and

SAG-AFTRA.

Mark Basquill [he/him] (Playwright) was raised in South Philadelphia and practices clinical

psychology in Wilmington, NC, where he helps veterans recover from the wounds of war, often

using writing to promote healing. Recent essays, stories, and poems can be found in Cirque: A

Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim; Consequence Forum; and Snapdragon: A Journal of

Art and Healing. Mark has also written two full-length dramas about his own family’s

unfinished struggles to heal from the impact of childhood clergy abuse. Each play was produced

locally and well-received.

Geraldine Hughes [she/her] (Director) received the Los Angeles Ovation, Garland and

Drama Critics Circle Awards and a Drama League Award Nomination for Outstanding

Performance for her solo play Belfast Blues, which she also wrote and performed. Theatre

acting credits: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, as Professor McGonagall, Jerusalem,

(Broadway and West End), Particle Of Dread (opposite Stephen Rea), Cyrano De Bergerac

(Broadway), Translations (Broadway), Molly Sweeney (Irish Repertory Theatre), Pumpgirl

(MTC), Orson’s Shadow, The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Weir. TV acting credits: Tokyo

Vice, Your Honor, Kevin Can Wait, Law and Order OC and SVU, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods,

Nurse Jackie, Mercy, The Good Wife, Law and Order CI, Law & Order, Murder, She Wrote: The

Celtic Riddle and ER. Film acting credits: Rocky Balboa, Gran Torino, Nine Days, The Book Of

Henry, Time Out Of Mind and Killing Lincoln. Geraldine is a Producer on the film In The Land

Of Saints And Sinners, starring Liam Neeson and Ciarán Hinds, and is an Executive Producer

on the film The Last Rifleman, starring Pierce Brosnan. She recently produced and starred inthe short film CLAY. Geraldine is a 2023 and 2024 recipient of the Irish American Partnership’s Nollaig na mBan women’s leadership award and is a patron of Integrated Education in the North of Ireland and has received honorary doctorates from Queens University,

Belfast and the University of Ulster.

Quotes:

“Sefton put on an acting clinic. It all added up to one of the most amazing pieces of acting I’ve

ever seen. It was also funny as hell and very moving.” —Daily Hampshire Gazette

“Simply artistry, extraordinary artistry. I rarely recommend a one-person play, but this is the one

to see this season.” —The Berkshire Edge

“An extraordinary work of art on the impossible topic.”—Terry McKiernan, Founder &

President Bishop Accountability