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Subverse Aphrodesia blurs the line between visual and verbal expression with a philosophy that art is a crucial part of one's daily diet. We not only produce our own works, but are also committed to coaching others tap their own creativity.
SvA was founded informally in July 1999 by Alicia Grega as an umbrella for her freelance endeavors.
 
 
Our specialities include: playwriting > dramaturgy arts > journalism > theatrical direction/production > arts marketing public relations > fine art photography > web video > project troubleshooting > artistic coaching & consulting > graphic design > jewelry design

We are particularly invested in the development of innovative new works, artistic experiments and community collaborations, and the greater professionalism of the arts in Northeast Pa.
 

 

 

 

Visit the Subverse Aphrodesia shop at Etsy.com to browse our inventory of more than 120 items including fashion jewelry, fine art, vintage goods, and accessories.

New items added weekly.

Most purchases ship within 24 hours.

 

       

What's News?

 
  • Shopping for your valentine? Use the coupon code LOVER at SvA's Etsy shop to save 15 percent.
  • Look for an annoucement for the 2012 season of the Jason Miller Playwrights' Project in early February. We're planning three programs in addition to the second annual Invitational, with room for suprises. 
  • If you missed the last segment of "Kitty Belle Do Tell" WFTE 90.3 FM's Free Speak & Some, visit the website at www.wfte.org to catch up on what you've missed via the program archives.
  • THANKS! to all who came out to support Dyonisia '11: the Inaugural Jason Miller Playwrights' Project Invitational. The the project was awarded a $1405 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts project grant from the Pennsylvaia Council on the Arts via the Pocono Arts Council.
    Speaking of the JMPP ... the project has a new email address at NEPAplaywrights@live.com.

     

     

 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)

  

 

Follow Alicia on twitter: www.twitter.com/kittybelle

Subverse Aprhodesia is on twitter, too: www.twitter.com/svaphro