About creative director
Alicia Lynn Grega
Trained as a theatrical director and playwright at Drew University ('94), Alicia Grega has worked as a features writer and theatre critic since January 2001 at at the electric city/diamond city arts & entertainment weekly newspaper, and now The570.com, published by The Scranton Times-Tribune. Her photography is frequently published in the paper's "Wandering Eye."
Alicia was appointed to the Lackawanna County Council for Arts and Culture in 2008 and is on the Board of Directors of First Friday Scranton.
She has volunteered as the coordinator of the Jason Miller playwrights' Project at Scranton Public Theatre since April 2008. She teaches performance and playwriting for SPT as part of the county's innovative ARTS Engage program.
Alicia has directed several local theatre productions and saw her radio play Operation Wanderlust produced by The Northeast Theatre/Electric Theatre Company and WVIA-FM in March 2005. In September 2009, she produced Insomniac Salad: A Kitchen Table Collaboration with three other writer/actors at The Olde Brick Theatre in Scranton. Her original script Avenging Arachne was workshopped in May 2011 and remains in development.
Alicia was awarded an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship for Arts Commentary from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in January 2009. In April 2009, she was one of 23 writers from across the country selected to attend the fifth NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles.
She began designing jewelry and t-shirts in November 2009 and continues to innovate with new, often one-of-a-kind products introduced weekly via Etsy.com.
Alicia resides in West Scranton, Pa.,
with her 14 and 15-year-old daughters.
Resume: linkedin.com/in/aliciagrega
at about.me
(headshot, may 2011)
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