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Alicia Lynn Grega is a writer, theatrical artist, performance coach and educator specializing in exploration of contemporary social issues through the liberation of personal storytelling.
Plays produced include Operation Wanderlust, Insomniac Salad, Banger's Elixir, and White Matter Surplus. Her TV pilot for Service was a finalist in Cinefluential 2019 (Ermantourage). Poetry collections include Haptikos (2015) and Dystalgia (2020).
She was an arts journalist at The Scranton Times (electric city) for 15 years and currently teaches fine arts, communications, English and writing courses at Lackawanna College and in primary schools as a teaching artist with the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership.
Alicia holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatr ...more

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― Matsuo Basho

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“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
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“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
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“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
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