STUFF HAPPENING NOW
Jocelyn Prince
Theater and Performance Artist. Community Organizer and Activist. Journalist and Poet.
Jocelyn Prince (JP): 'joss-uh-lin
Jocelyn Prince (JP): 'joss-uh-lin
STUFF HAPPENING NOW
SELECTED PAST WORK
Theater Management Track Facilitator
Site Coordinator- Almira PreK-8 Academy
Site Coordinator- Almira PreK-8 Academy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
How to achieve inclusion? The authors of this extraordinary article portray organizations they believe are part of the seismic shifts needed to maintain a vibrant inclusive future for American theater. Nonprofits in every field of practice can learn a lot here.
Woolly's innovative Connectivity Department was developed and established four years ago in order to activate the civic dialogue that lies at the heart of Wooly's mission statement. It is my job to anchor Woolly in the community as a place to explore ideas relevant to our lives, thus providing pathways for civic engagement.
Lydia Diamond's theatrical adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye, opens with Pecola Breedlove, the story's eleven-year-old protagonist, standing at center stage. She holds a book and reads aloud from a "Dick and Jane"-style early childhood reader: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door.
"America is not saving me, I am here to save America," says Abebe, an Ethiopian student preacher turned ecologist who's the protagonist of Kia Corthron's new play, A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, currently at Playwrights Horizons.
"This is not a story about weather," Eric Klinenberg insists. He's referring to the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the one that infamously took the lives of 739 Chicagoans. Klinenberg, an associate professor of sociology at New York University, wrote his first book about the disaster, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.
"Raisin" Book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg Based on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” Court Theatre Directed by Charles Newell Production Dramaturg: Jocelyn Prince
Someone viewing a production of "Love's Labor's Lost" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater or "The Beard of Avon" at The Goodman Theatre this past season would most likely have joined an audience of mostly white theatergoers. An attendee at "Cut Flowers" at the South Side's Chicago Theatre Company would enjoy the show alongside mostly black patrons.
SELECTED PRESS MENTIONS AND INTERVIEWS
" I started off in theater as a lot of people do, as an actor. I went to undergrad initially on an acting scholarship. And then I realized that I was the type of actor who was always in my head, always thinking and focusing on the background story of the character.
SELECTED THEATER AND PERFORMANCE CREDITS