Jocelyn Kuritsky

Company Member since 2006
Actress in Residence and Literary Coordinator
Email: jkuritsky@woodshedcollective.com
Website: jocelynkuritsky.com

[Woodshed Collective] Actress: The Tenant, The Confidence Man, Twelve Ophelias and Blood Wedding. Associate Producer: Never the Sinner.

[Elsewhere] Jocelyn is an actor and theater artist. As an actor Jocelyn has worked back-to-back with the Obie winning playwrights’ collective 13P; she has performed several times with Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood; and she is a former member of the Bats, the Obie winning Flea Theater’s resident acting company. Additionally, she has performed in, read, &/or workshopped plays with The Chocolate Factory, Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center, the Lark Play Development Center, Les Freres Corbusier, MCC Theater, New Dramatists, New Georges, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Rep., Target Margin, & Working Theater. She has collaborated with some of NY’s most innovative playwrights and directors, including Obie winner Sarah Benson, Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Ann Marie Healy, Obie winner Anne Kauffman, Obie winner Robert O’Hara, Drama Desk nominee Tom Ridgely, Caridad Svich, & José Zayas. Her television/film credits include Wunderkrafthaus (Pilot, Independent Together Ltd.), The Girl Next Door, based on the book by Jack Ketchum (MODERNCINÉ), & the upcoming Peace After Marriage with internationally-renowned Hiam Abbass and Louise Lasser. Recently she was also featured in a photography book by Bill Wadman, entitled Drabbles.
As a writer and sometimes director she has received development support from The Flea Theater, New Dramatists, The New Group, & Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. She has assisted directors Trip Cullman, Kip Fagan, Carl Forsman, Will Frears, Victor Maog, Ian Morgan, John Gould Rubin, & Michael Sexton. In the fall of 2009, she co-produced a special reading of Goose by Martin Snyder with Woodshed Collective and Tony & Grammy winner Duncan Sheik at Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater. She holds a B.A. in English from Scripps College.