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Subverse Aphrodesia

blurs the conventional 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

also are

committed to coaching others

tap their own creativity.

Specialties include:

playwriting

dramaturgy

graphic design

jewelry design

arts journalism

public relations

event production

fine art photography

project troubleshooting

artistic coaching and

consulting

SvA was founded informally in 1999 as an umbrella for creative director

Alicia Grega's freelance ventures.

We are particularly invested in the development of innovative new

works, artistic experiments, community collaborations, and the greater

professionalism of the arts in Northeast Pennsylvania.

... About Alicia

Alicia Grega is a writer/editor at the electric city/diamond city arts & entertainment weekly newspaper, online at The570.com. Trained as a theatrical director and playwright at Drew University ('94), she has authored five full-length plays and numerous shorter works, including the award-winning one-acts Practically Perfect People and Mythical Dovecote. She has volunteered as the coordinator of the Jason Miller Playwrights' Project at Scranton Public Theatre since April 2008. Her latest script Avenging Arachne: a Nemesister Fable was workshopped by the JMPP in May 2011 and remains in development. She is current working on White Matter Surplus, a play about liars, and several short works. Additional directing credits include The Vagina Monologues (Scranton, 2002) and Maureen McGuigan’s Live on Stage: Six Women in Labor in 2003, revived in 2004, and 2006.

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 lives in West Scranton with her two teenage daughters and sells handmade jewelry and fine art prints

online at ScrantonMade.com and Etsy.com.

Visit http://about.me/AliciaGrega for the big picture.