Jocelyn Woods

I am a queer, non-binary actor/director/playwright/vocalist living with a severe (rare and unknown) neuromuscular disease in Cambridge, VT. My journey in art directing began with the Ecstasy of a Cripple project in 2012, passionately shattering societal paradigms surrounding disability and sexuality. My stage debut as actor-writer, “The Fool’s Riddle: Hysteria has No House,” (2014) confronted medical gender inequality and the uterus as a demonized oracle, followed by “The Garden Elixirs” (2018), “Sappho and Mnasdika: a Lesbian Fantasy” (2019), Transcendental erotica is a theme in my fine art series “The Paradox of Man” (2017) “Ovulation” (2018), “Isle of Lesbos” (2019) and “GRAVITONS: Into the Black Sun” (2019). “Vulva Epiphanies” (2019) marked my debut art exhibit, celebrating the aesthetics of the most shamed body part in history. As an ongoing student of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, I coach acting technique and embodiment practices. In 2022 I coached, directed and acted in a nearly all-queer cast to film a concept test for “Madrelingua” which features a queer disabled protagonist. My passion and duty is the dismantling of oppressive societal paradigms through liberating the outcast Oracle, with my disabled body as the voice of the marginalized.