Collaborator Quotes.
"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
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Edward Bauer and Jocelyn in The Assembly's That Poor Dream. Photo by Nic Benacerraf.
Press - Performance.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Press - Producing.
A Simple Herstory
"Here’s a common story. The 2020 pandemic came along and it seriously altered someone’s plans. Here’s a less common story. A theater actor and producer can’t put on live shows any longer so she teams up with a playwright to create a one of a kind podcast experience. Well, that’s exactly what Jocelyn Kuritsky did. The result? A Simple Herstory."
-3 Clips
"Here’s a common story. The 2020 pandemic came along and it seriously altered someone’s plans. Here’s a less common story. A theater actor and producer can’t put on live shows any longer so she teams up with a playwright to create a one of a kind podcast experience. Well, that’s exactly what Jocelyn Kuritsky did. The result? A Simple Herstory."
-3 Clips
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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
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The Confidence Man
"Most definitely a work of dazzling genius."
-Gothamist
"Most definitely a work of dazzling genius."
-Gothamist
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KPop's Off-Broadway Poster.
Features & Interviews.
The New York Times Feature (The Tenant, Woodshed Collective).
