Chickie

Jay O'Callahan has been creating and performing stories for over twenty-five years. A storyteller of international renown, Jay has performed at the Abbey Theatre for the Yeats International Festival in Dublin, Ireland, and the Glistening Water Festival in New Zealand. Time Magazine has called him "a genius among storytellers." He has told stories at London's National Theatre Complex; in Niger, Africa; The Hague; in Boston with the Boston Symphony; and at Lincoln Center in New York. In 1991, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Jay a fellowship in the "solo theatrical performance" category. His records and audio cassettes have won numerous awards including the ALA/Carnegie Award, the Birmingham International Educational Film Festival Award, the Indie Award, and the Parents' Choice Classics Award. Jay lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts with his wife Linda. Besides theater and writing he enjoys gardening, walking, detective stories, theology, baseball and above all, swimming in the ocean.

"A triumph!" -- Buffalo News, February, 2004

"CHICKIE is a profoundly affecting story about growing up." -- Gavin Cameron-Webb, Artistic Director, Studio Arena Theatre, February, 2004