Unreconciled

Name: Unreconciled
Start: 2026-10-21T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Mermaid Arts Centre

About the show

Galvanizing audiences nationally and internationally, UNRECONCILED is a solo tour de force of daring to stand up to an institution that wants nothing more than silence.

Jay Sefton

Jay Sefton [he/him] (Playwright/Performer) is an actor and licensed mental health counsellor, 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). Film/TV: The Wire, Grey’s Anatomy, The Shield, Summerland, Providence. He is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. Jay is the recipient of the LA WEEKLY Award for Best Solo Performance for The Most Mediocre Story Never Told, and the winner of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Unreconciled, which also won Outstanding World Premiere of a New Play in 2024. He is the Executive Director of The Unreconciled Project and was honored by SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) for his work with survivors in Pennsylvania, and by CHILD USA with the Sean P. McIlmail Hero Award in 2025.

‘Sefton is a masterful performer. . . [an] impactful, stirring, and unforgettable performance.’
Pittsburgh Tatler

‘As the show unfurls, Sefton’s transformations dazzle, and the pacing of the production is as precisely mapped as the best poetry’
America: The Jesuit Review

‘Sefton holds his audience spellbound’
The Enterprise News of Cape Cod

‘Sefton’s story is compelling not only in content but also in presentation. For one thing, his acting is top notch’
Stage Raw

‘A genuine, raw, honest, and intimate portrayal. One must see it to understand the power of characterization and the finesse of storytelling’
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