It started when Alicia was eight years old and watched the HBO comedy special Comic Relief for the first time. And the second time, and the third time, and twenty-two more times after that. While other kids were wearing out their videocassette copies of Cinderella and He-Man , Alicia wore the tape through on her video of Comic Relief. Something in it deeply appealed to her... The way Robin, Whoopi, and Billy made light of homelessness--and at the same time raised awareness and money to change the situation. They weren't reverent or politically correct--they were just funny. This was also her first exposure to the comedy of Sid Cesar's silent clowning, George Carlin's routine about Stuff, and Gary Shandling's poetic neuroses.

Alicia did standup for the first time a few days after her 19th birthday. She had just listened to Emo Philip's "Live at the Hasty Pudding Theatre" album with fellow Hampshire College student Eugene Mirman.

Since then, she has continued to write and perform standup comedy and solo theater shows. Today, her voice is loud and clear. Influenced by comedians like Woody Allen, Ellen DeGeneres, and Marc Maron, her humor is playful and spontaneous yet finely tuned. She makes fun of the intensely personal and yet entirely universal struggles we face (or avoid) with a level of honesty and originality we don't often see in either club comedy or corporate comedy. Alicia calls this unique brand of humor "Human Comedy". She surfs the stage with a Buddhist calm, navigates truth with dangerous wit, and leaves a wake of uncontrollable laughter.

Alicia's new one-woman-show entitled "The Punchline" recently won "Best Female Solo Act" and "Best of the Fringe" in the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival. "The Punchline" was also selected to play at the Ross Valley Players Solo Performance Festival in February, 2009.

Alicia's next one-woman-show, "Eat, Pray, Laugh" about her travels in India is already in development.