Alicia Lynn Grega is a writer, instructor, and designer working at the intersection of arts, education, and storytelling in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Born on an Air Force base in California during the Vietnam War, Alicia settled in Scranton, PA in 1999 to raise her daughters near family.
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; 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 founded Common Play Factory in 2015, after concluding the Jason Miller Playwrights’ Project at Scranton Public Theatre. 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. Alicia’s original scripts — including Operation Wanderlust, Insomniac Salad, Banger’s Elixir, and White Matter Surplus—have been produced locally and regionally. The Ferment is scheduled to premiere live in October 2026 at the Scranton Fringe Festival and recorded for later podcast release. Among her published writings are two books of poetry: Haptikos (2016) and Dystalgia (2020).
Since 2016, Alicia has taught writing, arts, communications, and literature courses at institutions including Keystone College, Wilkes University, Marywood University, Lackawanna College, 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.
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. Alicia holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Drew University and an MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage from Point Park University.
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.
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