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Jocelyn Kuritsky is a New York (sometimes DC) based actor, theater practitioner, and filmmaker. She is a three-time Princess Grace Award nominated performer, and a founder and the actor-in-residence of the Drama Desk nominated & Lucille Lortel Award winning immersive theater company, Woodshed Collective.
Onstage, Jocelyn mostly works on new plays and new theatrical forms; and, as a performer, she has become a favorite among New York's downtown theater stalwarts, often portraying intense, fragile, and feral characters. Papermag calls her an "outstanding actor." She has appeared in more than 20 NYC productions, incl​uding premieres by Sheila Callaghan, Erik Ehn, Ken Urban, Rachel Bonds, Caridad Svich, The Assembly, and avant-garde theater legend, Mac Wellman. In DC, Jocelyn has performed in developmental work by various established and emerging playwrights at Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, and Theater Alliance. Onscreen, film credits include Caridad Svich's This Thing of Ours, opposite Black Eyed Susan, directed by José Zayas, with an original score by Stephin Merritt; Neil LaBute’s Over The River and Through The Woods, opposite Larry Pine, directed by Leigh Silverman, with an original score by Heidi Rodewald; Chisa Hutchinson's Domesticity, directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord (2017 Discover.film Awards Best Micro Drama); Nana Mensah’s Queen of Glory; and Ghazi Albuliwi’s Peace After Marriage, opposite Louise Lasser. She is also currently featured in two radio plays produced by Play For Voices, and she is the voice of the Grand Cuspid in Podmusical's The Fall Of The House Of Sunshine.
Jocelyn is the creator of The Muse Project, a new initiative that moves women actors to the center by charging them to identify and generate the roles they want to play. She is the founder of Staging Film, an ongoing, experimental short film project that is designed to meld the stage and screen and expose artists to wider audiences. She is also a founding member and the actor in residence of Woodshed Collective, one of the country’s leading immersive theater companies. With Woodshed, she has co-conceived productions such as KPop (2018 Richard Rodgers Award, 2018 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, 7 Drama Desk Award nominations, a Drama League nomination for Outstanding Production, and an Off Broadway Alliance Award nomination for Best Unique Theatrical Experience), Does It Hurt?, The Tenant (Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Award for Unique Off-Off Broadway Experience), Empire Travel Agency, The Confidence Man, 12 Ophelias, others. Jocelyn has worked with Tony-winning composer, Duncan Sheik, on a variety of projects, including Woodshed's The Tenant. She is a New Group artist, and she is affiliated with a variety of Off and Off-Off Broadway companies.
Outside of her acting and producing life, Jocelyn teaches, assists, and designs. She has taught language and literacy in low and moderate income communities at a variety of organizations, including Make The Road NY, New York Communities for Change, and LaGuardia Community College. She has guest instructed students in theater at Rutgers University for playwright Caridad Svich and, this spring, she will continue her mentorship work at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU). Jocelyn has been a director's assistant to Trip Cullman, Kip Fagan, Will Frears, Ian Morgan, John Gould Rubin, among others; and she occasionally personally assists the highly renowned Stanley Donen and Elaine May. She designs websites for artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, and corporate professionals as often as she can.

Jocelyn was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in La Paz, Bolivia and Atlanta, Georgia. She studied at Scripps College (The Women's College) in Claremont, California. She has received additional training from the O'Neill National Theater Institute, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles, and The Flea Theater. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and UFT.