And although ballet was not her calling, performing certainly was.
Alecia grew up on a small Kentucky farm where setting tobacco and hauling wood taught her the importance of work ethic. A stand-out student, she graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2002 with a BFA in Theatre and a BA in Inter-Strategic Communications (Copywriting and Advertising), summa cum laude.
Before graduating, she did summer stock for Minnesota Repertory Theatre (2000) as Elsa in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 and as a Chorus Girl in the musical Dames At Sea. The following summer (2001), Alecia worked as a copywriting intern for The Ad-Store in New York City on campaigns for big name accounts such as Lowes Cinemas, Mike's Hard Lemonade, and Alitalia Airlines. While in New York, she discovered a knack for performance poetry and found a niche at the Nuyorican Poets Café, where she was invited back as a featured poet.
She has appeared on stages ranging from La Mama Etc. in NYC to The Ellen DeGeneres Show in LA.
In 2006, Alecia's short story Pass The Towel was published in BLINK: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat an Eye.
Currently, she is promoting and touring her two-woman show, Becoming Woman, an original coming-of-age piece that was showcased in the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival and is still being booked annually at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts.
She has self-published several booklets of poetry and monologue, and loves to blog original short stories.
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