About

Jay is a theatre maker, performer, and director based in Galway, and a graduate of the BA (Hons) Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Galway (2026).

His current work in progress, Not Another Play about Masculinity?!, explores the unspoken tensions and silent conversations between father and son within a theatrical landscape shaped by masculine stereotypes.

In 2023, Jay received the Best Director Award at the Jerome Hynes One Acts for What Can I Help You With?, written by Connor McKenna. The production also won Best Production and Best Actor. He has worked as Assistant Director on The Book of Neil McCarthy, presented at the Irish Student Drama Awards (ISDA) in 2024, where it received six nominations, including Best Ensemble, and won the Judges’ Discretion Award for Undefinable Excellence. In 2023 he served as a director for Galway Public Libraries on their Decade of Centenaries programme for the 100 year commemoration of The Shadow of a Gunman.

As a performer, he recently appeared as Gloss in The Beaux’ Stratagem at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, directed by Dr Aideen Wylde, and has collaborated with Active* Consent.

He has also participated in workshops for Fracture (Ian Petersen) and, more recently, Locked In (Cian Whelan).

Outside of theatre Jay is best known for his inability to fry an egg.