Creative Team

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 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 in the 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.

Melenie Freedom Flynn [she/her] (Stage Manager) is a writer, actor, and teacher. A graduate of the MFA Acting Program at California Institute of the Arts, she has performed in theatres across the country. She is the recipient of the 2025 Edith Wharton Writing Residency at the Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Djerassi Residents Artists Program, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Melenie’s essay “Message from Your Inmate” won the annual nonfiction contest at Vela Magazine and her recent work can be seen in Provincetown Arts Magazine. Melenie leads writing workshops and provides coaching and editorial services for writers. meleniefreedomflynn.com