Gregarious Expressions

Alicia Lynn Grega is a writer, instructor, and designer working at the intersection of arts, education, and storytelling in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

As a playwright and screenwriter, she’s a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and a rostered artist with Arts in Education Northeast Pennsylvania. Her original scripts—including Operation Wanderlust, Insomniac Salad, Banger’s Elixir, and White Matter Surplus—have been produced locally and regionally. She’s published two books of poetry: Haptikos (2016) and Dystalgia (2020).

Since 2016, Alicia has taught arts, literature, communications, and writing courses at institutions including Keystone College, Wilkes University, and the University of Cincinnati (online). From 2020 to 2023, she contributed to a U.S. Department of Education research project integrating arts into elementary curricula in Hazleton, PA, led by The Armature NEPA and Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership.

Her fifteen years as arts writer and editor at The Scranton Times-Tribune (2001-2016) deepened her commitment to documenting and championing regional creative culture. She’s since collaborated with organizations including the Lackawanna County Council for Arts, Culture, and Education; United Neighborhood Centers; Scranton Fringe Festival; Scranton Public Theatre; and TEDx Scranton, among others. Her nonprofit work includes communications roles at the Catherine McAuley Center for women and children experiencing homelessness (2019-2022).

Alicia’s honors include the Robert Fisher Oxnam Award in Playwriting, grants from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and an NEA Arts Journalism Institute fellowship. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Drew University and an MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage from Point Park University.

In 2015, she founded Common Play Factory after departing the Jason Miller Playwrights’ Project. Most recently, CPF co-produced Maureen McGuigan’s solo show Remember, You Will Die for Scranton Fringe (2023), which was revived in 2024 and toured to Ireland’s Ballina Arts Centre in 2025.

This website has evolved alongside Alicia’s explorations in digital publishing and community-building. It began as documentation of her 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship investigating “neo-vaudeville”—the resurgence of vaudevillian aesthetics in contemporary performance, from alternative circus and punk cabaret to burlesque and steampunk culture. Today, it serves as a landing page for her ongoing work in theatre, writing, and arts education.

If you’d like to support Alicia’s future projects, donations can be sent to GregariousPR via PayPal. Thank you. xoxo

See Alicia’s CV below for additional details.