Collaborator Quotes.
"One of the queens of the downtown irregulars."
-Jeff Jones,
Playwright & Host of Little Theatre
-Jeff Jones,
Playwright & Host of Little Theatre
"Jocelyn's offbeat persona & striking directness (it can read as innocence...or mystery) seem made for the 'downtown' aesthetic I've happily seen emerge. It's long been clear to me that this new aesthetic would require - & hopefully create - a pool of actors of tremendous specificity, actors who've grown up & into its demands. They'd be adventurous & flexible in unconventional storytelling & theatrical contexts. They'd develop an intrinsic understanding of unusual approaches to language, and be able to play emotional fullness within rhythmic or proscribed speech. They'd be pro-active in bringing inquiry to developing this work, as close partners with their frequent collaborators. Jocelyn has emerged as one of these actors."
-Susan Bernfield, Producing Artistic Director of New Georges
-Susan Bernfield, Producing Artistic Director of New Georges
"Jocelyn is like the love child of Willem Dafoe & Audrey Hepburn...she's got the dark, rangy intelligence of Dafoe, but the grace & poise of Hepburn. Wicked cocktail!"
-Sheila Callaghan,
Playwright & Screenwriter
-Sheila Callaghan,
Playwright & Screenwriter
"A Jean Seberg for the Williamsburg set, this pixie is transfixing. More bobcat than tomboy, she packs a potent punch. If you tinker with this belle, she'll have you eating her fairy dust! JK is a clever & brave actress, a crafty producer, a delicious collaborator, & a creative beehive of activity. She brings the honey - and the sting."
-Tina Benko,
Actor
-Tina Benko,
Actor
Performance Quotes.
Edward Bauer and Jocelyn in The Assembly's That Poor Dream.
Photo by Nic Benacerraf.
Photo by Nic Benacerraf.
I Think You're Projecting
"The acting [is] outstanding."
-Audible Listener Review
"The acting [is] outstanding."
-Audible Listener Review
Stet
"The play accomplishes something so powerful and so nuanced, I hadn't realized it would be possible on the stage ... and it really could only be possible as a woman-driven story. Kuritsky expands and explodes ideas of victimhood. The subject matter and the character of Erika are both minefields, and Kuritsky dances around the bombs with astonishing skill."
-Claire Gordon, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
"The play accomplishes something so powerful and so nuanced, I hadn't realized it would be possible on the stage ... and it really could only be possible as a woman-driven story. Kuritsky expands and explodes ideas of victimhood. The subject matter and the character of Erika are both minefields, and Kuritsky dances around the bombs with astonishing skill."
-Claire Gordon, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
"It's Kuritsky's fiery tenacity and the pulse-stopping intensity with which she pairs it that fuel the evening and that makes so many of the scenes such riveting deconstructions of public shame and personal animus."
-Talkin' Broadway
-Talkin' Broadway
"Speciale's production has a lot going for it, beginning with Kuritsky, whose Erika slips into a state of obsession by such tiny degrees that one can barely account for it. She is super-skilled at throwing away lines; even when sitting still, listening to Ashley's phone testimony, you feel that powerful emotions are at work."
-Lighting & Sound America
-Lighting & Sound America
"Kuritsky is staggeringly good... Even without Jocelyn Kuritsky’s virtuosity in the role, Davies has written the type of female lead of intelligence and startling dimension that our American stages need. This is no accident: Kuritsky began The Muse Project to give female performers the opportunity and resources to helm their own dream projects—an admirable reaction to the gender disparity within NYC’s theatre community."
-Exeunt Magazine
-Exeunt Magazine
"Performances are first-rate, with Jocelyn Kuritsky’s dogged intensity fueling the fire."
-Epoch Times
-Epoch Times
"The captivating Ms. Kuritsky is in every scene of the play and she carries it with her admirable performance. Her excellent characterization of the tough reporter veers from bravado to subtlety."
-TheaterScene.net
-TheaterScene.net
"Jocelyn Kuritsky plays Erika. Her emotional involvement and attachment grow over the course of the play. She takes us on her journey from a strictly professional journalist to a woman deeply invested in wanting justice for the victims. Kuritsky is a fine actor with real acting chops."
-Theater That Matters
-Theater That Matters
"Kuritsky embodies this struggle as the conflicted reporter stuck in the middle of her personal and professional instincts. Her hard-as-nails persona softens throughout the course of the assignment, though she keeps her cards close enough to the vest that we never truly know if it's her principles or her ambitions that are in the driver's seat."
-TheaterMania
-TheaterMania
"Kuritsky does a wonderful job portraying Erika’s transformation from unattached, factual journalist to emotionally involved storyteller."
-Off Off Online
-Off Off Online
"Ms. Kuritsky’s Erika is rigorous and skeptical as she confronts an unexpected moral dilemma... This complexity is intentional and fully realized."
-New York Theatre Review
-New York Theatre Review
"Jocelyn Kuritsky, who also worked on creating “Stet” with Davies and Speciale, is wonderfully staid as Erika."
-Gay City News
-Gay City News
"Jocelyn Kuritsky does a fine job playing Erika."
-Theater Pizzazz
-Theater Pizzazz
"Ms. Kuritsky [as the] hard-as-titanium staff reporter...has several fine scenes."
-The New York Times
-The New York Times
"Stet, the new play by Kim Davies at the Abingdon Theatre, is a powerful piece inspired by the Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus” and the reporter’s investigation into sexual assault in college. It’s also the first full production of The Muse Project, the brainchild of fierce actress Jocelyn Kuritsky. Stet is a stirring play with big ideas and sensitive, yet bold performances by Jocelyn, Jack Fellows, Déa Julien, Lexi Lapp and Bruce McKenzie."
-Works By Women
-Works By Women
"Actors Jocelyn Kuritsky, Bruce McKenzie, Lexi Lapp, Déa Julien, and Jack Fellows tackle the tough subject matter with refinement."
-Center on the Aisle
-Center on the Aisle
"A limited run features a great script, strong cast and a gripping, yet terrifying plot, as well as a perfectly captured inner battle of ambition and justice."
-Kudago.com (New York)
-Kudago.com (New York)
That Poor Dream
"Kuritsky shows the vulnerability under the strong and coldly seductive Estella that is so often absent from more traditional adaptations of the novel."
-Culture Catch
"Kuritsky shows the vulnerability under the strong and coldly seductive Estella that is so often absent from more traditional adaptations of the novel."
-Culture Catch
"Estella, played by Jocelyn Kuritsky, is proud and distant but likable despite herself."
-Charged.fm
-Charged.fm
The Awake
"Portrayed with splendid creepiness by Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-The Village Voice
"Portrayed with splendid creepiness by Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-The Village Voice
"His diabolical daughter, played by Jocelyn Kuritsky, is a very entertaining strain of crazy."
-Manhattan with a Twist
-Manhattan with a Twist
"Jeff Biehl, Jocelyn Kuritsky, and Dee Nelson flood the stage with fifteen unique characters and give each of them a defined and delicious personality... They move across the stage with amazing precision and speed."
-Theatre Reviews Limited
-Theatre Reviews Limited
Peace After Marriage
"[An] appealing lighthearted Muslim-Jewish romantic comedy... [A] tryout with a Palestinian terrorist puppet [opposite Louise Lasser & Jocelyn Kuritsky] gives the pic a small, necessary jolt into the more complex issues involved."
-Variety
"[An] appealing lighthearted Muslim-Jewish romantic comedy... [A] tryout with a Palestinian terrorist puppet [opposite Louise Lasser & Jocelyn Kuritsky] gives the pic a small, necessary jolt into the more complex issues involved."
-Variety
3 2's; Or AFAR
"Two outstanding actors, Jan Leslie Harding and Jocelyn Kuritsky, are featured performers."
-Tom Murrin, Papermag
"Two outstanding actors, Jan Leslie Harding and Jocelyn Kuritsky, are featured performers."
-Tom Murrin, Papermag
"Adroit Cast."
-The New York Times
-The New York Times
Crawl, Fade to White
"[Jocelyn Kuritsky is] a fragile geek of a college girl, April, sputtering her way into a fit of trembling so intense that she seems capable of splitting her own atoms. ...Director Paul Willis...gets superlative performances from his cast."
-TheaterMania
"[Jocelyn Kuritsky is] a fragile geek of a college girl, April, sputtering her way into a fit of trembling so intense that she seems capable of splitting her own atoms. ...Director Paul Willis...gets superlative performances from his cast."
-TheaterMania
"The meticulous cast works to underscore the emotion beneath the Sarah Ruhl-like affectations: Louise's sacrifices are real and so is April's [Jocelyn Kuritsky's] suffering."
-TimeOut NY
-TimeOut NY
"Kuritsky, as April, is a bundle of nervous energy with nowhere to put it; she seems easily pushed around but she also has a wiry, wily core."
-nytheatre.com
-nytheatre.com
"The actors bravely eschew rounded psychologies, letting a mysterious inner logic ground their characters in external will and drive - Jocelyn Kuritsky's April shakes like an overheated bomb."
-New Theater Corps
-New Theater Corps
Michael & Edie
"Some supporting actors give excellent performances. Jocelyn Kuritsky, who plays Michael's little sister, Sarah, a depressed, anxious teen, is nasal and angular, both comedic and tragic in her adolescent pain."
-Off-Off Online
"Some supporting actors give excellent performances. Jocelyn Kuritsky, who plays Michael's little sister, Sarah, a depressed, anxious teen, is nasal and angular, both comedic and tragic in her adolescent pain."
-Off-Off Online
"Played movingly by Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-nytheatre.com
-nytheatre.com
"With several imaginative directorial touches, Robert Saenz di Viteri leads his cast of talented fresh faces on this journey for sensitive souls."
-Backstage
-Backstage
The Tenant
"Jocelyn's a core member of Woodshed Collective and ALSO plays a mean Crippled Girl. She’s odd and devastating. I found myself in a back courtyard watching her do the weirdest, saddest ‘exotic dance' you ever did see, for coins, after she and her mother get kicked out of their tiny apartment. I sat there thinking – one day, in theory, these days – watching a crippled girl dance exotically on a weird back porch on 86th and Amsterdam – will be the Golden Years."
-Bekah Brunstetter (I Care Deeply Blog)
"Jocelyn's a core member of Woodshed Collective and ALSO plays a mean Crippled Girl. She’s odd and devastating. I found myself in a back courtyard watching her do the weirdest, saddest ‘exotic dance' you ever did see, for coins, after she and her mother get kicked out of their tiny apartment. I sat there thinking – one day, in theory, these days – watching a crippled girl dance exotically on a weird back porch on 86th and Amsterdam – will be the Golden Years."
-Bekah Brunstetter (I Care Deeply Blog)
"A masterful performance by Judith Greentree (Maman) and her Crippled Daughter, Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-Examiner
-Examiner
"Consistently compelling [are] Judith Greentree as a mad mother, along with Jocelyn Kuritsky as her disabled daughter."
-NY1
-NY1
"Among the sights that will stick with me is a disturbing mother/daughter battle between Judith Greentree & Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-The Broadway Blog
-The Broadway Blog
Father of Lies
"The superb Jocelyn Kuritsky thoroughly convinces as the trusting wife."
-Blogcritics
"The superb Jocelyn Kuritsky thoroughly convinces as the trusting wife."
-Blogcritics
"The excellent Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-That Sounds Kul
-That Sounds Kul
"Jocelyn Kuritsky does a lovely job with some difficult material. A scene in which she is trapped in a car with her husband late in the play provides her with a moment to shine."
-nytheatre.com
-nytheatre.com
Seating Arrangements
"Jocelyn Kuritsky's confession, which begins, 'I used to, um, fart...a lot...when I encountered a man I liked,' is hysterical."
-The Village Voice
"Jocelyn Kuritsky's confession, which begins, 'I used to, um, fart...a lot...when I encountered a man I liked,' is hysterical."
-The Village Voice
Have You Seen Steve Steven?
"The non-English speaking foreign exchange student is an old trope by now, but as played by ghoulish and stick figured Jocelyn Kuritsky, this character's foreignness becomes as frightening as it is hilarious."
-The Playgoer
"The non-English speaking foreign exchange student is an old trope by now, but as played by ghoulish and stick figured Jocelyn Kuritsky, this character's foreignness becomes as frightening as it is hilarious."
-The Playgoer
"Jocelyn Kuritsky does a lot with the underwritten part of Anlor, who has an unnerving way of waking up screaming from her drunken stupors."
-Lighting & Sound America
-Lighting & Sound America
"The cast is top-notch from top to bottom...particularly Jocelyn Kuritsky as the damaged, near feral Anlor."
-nytheatre.com
-nytheatre.com
"A witty, internalized performance by Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-NYC OnStage
-NYC OnStage
"A wickedly funny and stunned Jocelyn Kuritsky."
-New Theater Corps
-New Theater Corps
"Jocelyn Kuritsky is alarmingly funny."
-That Sounds Kul
-That Sounds Kul
"The acting in Have You Seen Steve Steven? is outstanding."
-StageBuzz.com
-StageBuzz.com
Smoke & Mirrors
"Since this is the venerable Flea and the actors are the Bats (the resident company of young up-and-coming actors) the acting is the best part of the show. Bats Jason Dirden, Ben Horner, Parrish Hurley, Susan Hyon, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Aurelia Lavizzo, and Stas May display a great sense of ensemble acting and comedic timing."
-A CurtainUp Review
"Since this is the venerable Flea and the actors are the Bats (the resident company of young up-and-coming actors) the acting is the best part of the show. Bats Jason Dirden, Ben Horner, Parrish Hurley, Susan Hyon, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Aurelia Lavizzo, and Stas May display a great sense of ensemble acting and comedic timing."
-A CurtainUp Review
"The production, featuring the Flea Theater's young resident company, known as the Bats, is blessed with razor-sharp pacing... The seven actors turn in terrific comedic performances... There's Jocelyn Kuritsky as a rigid figure who spends her breaks silently writing in a notebook and, of course, smoking."
-Backstage
-Backstage
"Especially strong performances from Susan Hyon as Anita, Jason Dirden as Terry, and Jocelyn Kuritsky as Estelle."
-nytheatre.com
-nytheatre.com
"It’s all held together by director Nick Faust and seven members of the Flea Theater’s fine young acting company, the Bats."
-TimeOut NY
-TimeOut NY
"With the help of the Bats, the Flea Theater’s resident repertory company, the play brings to life one day in the life of corporate America."
-Off Off Online
-Off Off Online
The Luck of the Ibis
"Jocelyn Kuritsky and Jessica Pohly as the two heroines of the story give incredibly intense performances."
-One Producer in the City
"Jocelyn Kuritsky and Jessica Pohly as the two heroines of the story give incredibly intense performances."
-One Producer in the City
"Every single member of this talented ensemble is captivating."
-The Happiest Medium
-The Happiest Medium
12 Ophelias
"Jocelyn Kuritsky's Mina, a prostitute with the proverbial heart of gold, totally won over my own tarnished heart."
-Obscene Jester
"Jocelyn Kuritsky's Mina, a prostitute with the proverbial heart of gold, totally won over my own tarnished heart."
-Obscene Jester
Jocelyn and Jacob Wilhelmi in Michael & Edie.
Photo by Nick Gordon.
Photo by Nick Gordon.
Production Quotes.
KPOP's Off-Broadway Poster.
A Simple Herstory
"If Ken Burns took a tab of acid and then went on all the rides at Coney Island, you might get something like this. Its Alice-in-Wonderland shifts in reality, its phantasmagoric ghost pageantry, its blend of voices overlapping and fighting to be heard—work brilliantly to create epic theater in our heads.
-David Cote, Theater Critic
"If Ken Burns took a tab of acid and then went on all the rides at Coney Island, you might get something like this. Its Alice-in-Wonderland shifts in reality, its phantasmagoric ghost pageantry, its blend of voices overlapping and fighting to be heard—work brilliantly to create epic theater in our heads.
-David Cote, Theater Critic
More.
KPOP (Broadway)
"With mega-watt set design, exquisite choreography, a show-within-a-show storyline and a score that sounds more like a Spotify playlist than a conventional musical’s tunes, 'KPOP' is elegant, energetic, and exceptional."
-Variety
"With mega-watt set design, exquisite choreography, a show-within-a-show storyline and a score that sounds more like a Spotify playlist than a conventional musical’s tunes, 'KPOP' is elegant, energetic, and exceptional."
-Variety
More.
KPOP
"KPOP is no mere sugar bomb. Underneath the glam and the (highly enjoyable) gimmickry, the show is a candid and increasingly discomfiting look at the struggles faced by Asian artists — be they pop stars or actors — trying to break into an American market."
-Vulture/New York Magazine
"KPOP is no mere sugar bomb. Underneath the glam and the (highly enjoyable) gimmickry, the show is a candid and increasingly discomfiting look at the struggles faced by Asian artists — be they pop stars or actors — trying to break into an American market."
-Vulture/New York Magazine
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Stet
"Davies’s arresting examination of campus rape culture as reported by the media comes to the June Havoc Theatre, where, through the joint forces of The Muse Project and Abingdon Theatre Company, director Tony Speciale steers a superb cast into a moral danger zone where factual truth and emotional truth don’t quite square..."
-Exeunt Magazine
"Davies’s arresting examination of campus rape culture as reported by the media comes to the June Havoc Theatre, where, through the joint forces of The Muse Project and Abingdon Theatre Company, director Tony Speciale steers a superb cast into a moral danger zone where factual truth and emotional truth don’t quite square..."
-Exeunt Magazine
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Empire Travel Agency
"Woodshed Collective, the exceptional theater company that created the piece, has made it their mission to upend the conventional notion of theater, obliterating the boundaries between spectator and performer, and turning public spaces into intimate vortexes of wonder."
-Gothamist
"Woodshed Collective, the exceptional theater company that created the piece, has made it their mission to upend the conventional notion of theater, obliterating the boundaries between spectator and performer, and turning public spaces into intimate vortexes of wonder."
-Gothamist
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That Poor Dream
"Gorgeous production... This is a sophisticated and brave show from a young, talented and ambitious company, both of which are worth watching."
-New York Theatre
"Gorgeous production... This is a sophisticated and brave show from a young, talented and ambitious company, both of which are worth watching."
-New York Theatre
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The Tenant
"Woodshed Collective has, with great imagination and wonderful detail, transformed the old five-story West-Park Presbyterian Church into a ramshackle Parisian apartment building circa the nineteen-sixties. The only downside is that you can’t see everything."
-The New Yorker
"Woodshed Collective has, with great imagination and wonderful detail, transformed the old five-story West-Park Presbyterian Church into a ramshackle Parisian apartment building circa the nineteen-sixties. The only downside is that you can’t see everything."
-The New Yorker
More.
The Confidence Man
"Most definitely a work of dazzling genius."
-Gothamist
"Most definitely a work of dazzling genius."
-Gothamist
More.
Features & Interviews.
The New York Times Feature (The Tenant, Woodshed Collective).
