Artist Profile
Jocelyn A. Brown has served as Chance Theater’s Associate Artistic Director since 2011 and a Chance Resident Artist since 2001. Acting highlights include: Diana in Next To Normal (OCTG Award for Outstanding Performance in a Musical, StageScene LA’s Performance of the Year), Leigh Fondakowski in The Laramie Project & Ten Years Later (Ovation Recommended), the Witch in Into The Woods (Back Stage West Critic’s Pick), Cathy in The Last 5 Years (Back Stage Garland Award Honorable Mention for Best Actor), Ann in Goodnight Children Everywhere (OC Weekly Award for Best Actress). Directing highlights include Ride The Cyclone (OCTG Recommended), Lizzie, The Musical (Ovation Award Winner: Best Musical – Intimate Theatre, Ovation nomination Best Direction, OC Weekly Best of OC 2019), Good People (Ovation Recommended), in a word (Best in OC by The Orange Curtain Review), The Big Meal, Never In My Lifetime (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), and The Cherry Orchard (OC Weekly nomination Best Direction). Jocelyn received the OC Board of Supervisors’ award for Women Making a Difference (2023). She teaches at Laguna Hills High School where she was an honoree for the California League of High Schools “Teacher of the Year” for Orange County (2012). M.Ed: Vanguard University, B.A. & B.S.: University of California San Diego.