Jocelyn Kuritsky

Company Member since 2006
Actor in Residence and Literary Coordinator

[Woodshed Collective] Actor: Twelve Ophelias and Blood Wedding.

[Elsewhere] Jocelyn is an actor, writer, & director.  Recent acting credits include She of the Voice by Eliza Bent, adapted from Hari Kunzru’s Magda Mandela, directed by Jose Zayas (PS 122); Crawl, Fade to White by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Paul Willis & Have You Seen Steve Steven? by Ann Marie Healy, directed by Obie winner Anne Kauffman (13P); Slavey by Sigrid Gilmer, directed by Obie winner Robert O’Hara (Clubbed Thumb); My Father is a Tetris Game by Jonathan A. Goldberg, directed by Alexis Poledouris & Oph3lia (Culturemart), written and directed by Aya Ogawa (HERE Arts Center).  She has performed in numerous shows at The Flea Theater, including Seating Arrangements conceived by Pold Worm Jensen, Smoke and Mirrors by Joseph Goodrich, Away in the Manger by Roger Rosenblatt, & Mercy on the Doorstep by Gip Hoppe, directed by Jim Simpson.  She has also recently performed with MCC’s Youth Co. & Target Margin.  She has participated in readings and workshops at the Lark Theatre Company, MCC, New Dramatists, The New Group, The Public, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, among others.  Recent workshops include My Gap-Toothed Beauty by Sam Marks, directed by Kip Fagan (The Flea Theater) & JOB by 2009 Guggenheim Fellow Thomas Bradshaw, directed by Obie winner Sarah Benson, with Gerry Bamman, Andre DeShields, & Paul Zimet (Soho Rep.).  Her TV and film credits include Wunderkrafthaus (Cartoon Network Pilot, Independent Together Ltd.) & The Girl Next Door, based on the book by Jack Ketchum (Moderncine).  As a writer and sometimes director of her play, Blueberries, she has received development support from The Flea Theater, New Dramatists, The New Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, & Woodshed Collective.  As a director, she has assisted Trip Cullman, Kip Fagan, Carl Forsman, Will Frears, Victor Maog, Ian Morgan, John Gould Rubin, & Michael Sexton.  She holds a B.A. in English from Scripps College and has received additional training from Pomona College, the O’Neill National Theater Institute, & the Alliance Theatre.  She coordinates Woodshed Collective’s monthly reading series, intended to help writers, directors, & actors network and cultivate work.  She is also currently developing Goose by Marty Snyder, based on Nikolai Gogol’s How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, to be produced with Tony and Grammy winner Duncan Sheik.

Email: jkuritsky@