Storyteller Jay O'Callahan

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Jay O’Callahan says storytelling is an invitation to the audience to see a world so vivid that the theatre disappears. For 25 years, O’Callahan has been spinning his stories for people around the world. He has told tales in Ireland, New Zealand and Norway. He has been called everything from a genius to a theater troupe inside one body.

Yet, even after years of telling his yarns, O’Callahan says he is still learning. He says he still enjoys the process of growing a story, of weaving together the sounds, the colors, and the tiny, specific details that make a world — the red hat of a beautiful woman, the limp of an old man, the piercing sounds of a raucous party and the hush of a dark night.

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Storyteller Jay O’Callahan