Jocelyn Prince (she/her) is a Chicago-based writer, artist, and activist, and currently a Principal at ALJP Consulting. She previously served as Artistic Coordinator at Yale Repertory Theatre, Site Coordinator for Almira PreK-8 Academy at Cleveland Play House, Connectivity Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and Artistic Associate at The Public Theater in NYC. She is a Co-Founding Artistic Director of The New Black Fest in NYC. Selected Production Dramaturgy credits include Invisible Man, The First Breeze of Summer, and Raisin (Court Theatre); A Raisin in The Sun (Juilliard School of Drama); Harriet Jacobs and Intimate Apparel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Black Diamond (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The MLK Project (Writers Theatre). Jocelyn has directed new work for the Playwrights Gym at Dobama Theatre, the Cleveland Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Local 4181, The Dark Room at Cleveland Public Theater, the Go Green Festival at The Movement Theatre Company in NYC, the Around the Coyote Festival in Chicago, and Snapshots 10-Minute Play Festival at 20% Theatre Company Chicago. Jocelyn’s social justice and political work includes staff positions with the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, Obama for America and Hillary for America with the Ohio Democratic Party, Kamala Harris for the People in Iowa, and volunteer work with the Washington Peace Center. She has read and evaluated scripts for The Kilroys List, the Emerging Writers Group, The Ohio University Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival, and The PlayPenn conference. Her performance poetry has been featured by The Encyclopedia Show Chicago, The Encyclopedia Show DC, and La Ti Do. Jocelyn holds a B.A. in Journalism from Bradley University and a M.A. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She has written for TimeOut Chicago, TimeOut New York, The Chicago Reporter, Nonprofit Quarterly and the African American Review.

Jocelyn has taught in the Leadership for Creative Enterprises graduate program and the undergraduate rhetoric, theater and performance studies departments at Northwestern University, and served on the theater management faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. She has presented and spoken on panels at the Communities in Schools National Forum, the Department of Performance Arts at Georgetown University, the Theatre Communications Group National Conference, the Department of Theatre Arts at Howard University, the EMC Arts Continuing Innovation Convening, and the Department of Africana Studies; Rites and Reason at Brown University. She has written for TimeOut Chicago, TimeOut New York, Howlround,The Chicago Reporter, Nonprofit Quarterly and the African American Review.

SPECIALTIES
African-American Drama, Contemporary Drama, Spoken Word Poetry, Interdisciplinary and Experimental Work, Dance Dramaturgy, Site-Specific and Guerrilla Theater, Community Organizing

RECENT SELECTED WORK
- Life After by Britta Johnson; directed by Annie Tippe; The Goodman Theatre (production)

- Jack Diamond by J. Nicole Brooks; directed by J. Nicole Brooks and David Catlin; Lookingglass Theatre Company (production)

-Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage; directed by Jessica Thebus; Steppenwolf Theatre Company (production)

-Raisin by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg; directed by Charlie Newell; Court Theatre (production)

RECOMMENDED BY
"Jocelyn Prince is an insightful interpreter of classical works as well as an engaged collaborator on new, original productions. Through her work with Woolly Mammoth and Cleveland Play House as well as the New Black Fest, which she cofounded, she has helped to make American theatre more diverse, inclusive, and revolutionary.”
—Harvey Young, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, Boston University College of Fine Arts

"Jocelyn is a sharp-shooting woman with a strong dramaturgical eye and a great instinct for storytelling. Having her in the room for play development means encountering a well of thoughtful and provocative questions to assist in strengthening the narrative voice of the work.  She goes hard for the plays she believes in, both as an advocate and audience member, and she supports the work onstage and off.  Always infusing her dramaturgy with cultural context and perspectives, she is a valuable resource to have on any play development team."
—Dominique Morisseau, playwright

"Jocelyn’s dramaturgy work is astute and compassionate. Both scripts that she’s worked on with me have improved greatly with her careful feedback. I couldn’t recommend her more!"
—Les Hunter, playwright