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Jocelyn Koretsky

Jocelyn Kuritsky is a New York actor, producer, and creator — founding artistic director of The Muse Project, creator of the podcast "A Simple Herstory," and a conceiver of the Tony-nominated musical KPOP.

Sep 29, 2026

37:41
Jocelyn, what do you think? For you, what were the key moments in her life? How did you want to portray them?
37:47
Well, you know, we went through, I think Jonathan drafted several episode Bibles and we went through different moments from her birth to, you know, establishing Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly to their brokerage firm to running for president, being jailed, moving to England.
38:06
I think within the episode Bible, several episodes we get thrown out when we wound up doing this.
38:13
And yeah, I think to sort of echo Jonathan, I think we had these themes.
38:19
What does it mean to run for president? What does it mean to tell history? What does it mean to tell this person's story now? How does her ghost haunt us? And so I think some of the key moments in the show actually aren't the key moments in her life.
38:33
They're key themes.
38:36
There's a speech.

9 MINS LATER

47:14
So, Jocelyn, when you were... thinking about the role of victoria let's just address casting for a minute because now you have historical people that you've got to fit real people into so how did you think about casting that role and you chose florencia so we'll talk about that and how did she bring herself into the character of victoria here

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