Comedy Career Q & A, Part 7: Grow Big or Grow Home Alicia: I think doing what you love should be the goal and if doing the other things to pay the rent make it easier to be creative then that’s beautiful. If they make Read more…
Comedy Career Q & A, Part 6: Slow & Steady Meteoric Rise Alicia: Yeah, you can’t have a viral video if you don’t have any videos. Able: That’s true. Yeah. So you’ve done that yourself? Alicia: No. Able: Okay. Alicia: Why do you think I’m Read more…
Comedy Career Q & A, Part 5: Hone Your Voice Alicia: Creating a show was the thing that gave me a commodity rather than a specific thing that people could latch on and say that is for me and that could be for me whereas Read more…
Comedy Career Q & A, Part 4: Develop Your Show Able: So, it sounds like a lot of what you’re saying is go where you think your people are going to be and see how it lands with them and branch out from there. Alicia: Yeah, definitely Read more…
Comedy Career Q & A, Part 3: Headlining Energy Alicia: I noticed I wasn’t really feeling like I could be myself and it wasn’t making me funnier or better as a comic. It was just making me shrink. It’s not that I don’t admire and Read more…
Comedy Career Q & A, Part 2: Quitting the Club Alicia: I couldn’t be in a bar anymore. Able: Yep. Alicia: I couldn’t be surrounded by 22 year old heterosexual dudes, smoking pot and drinking and a lot of the moments were really fun but a Read more…
Comedy Career Q & A, Part 1: Traditional Standup Path Alicia: So, hello everybody. I am here today with my new buddy Able and we are going to spend a little time doing some Q & A on comedy, performance and anything that you have Read more…
Performing a draft of my new standup comedy show I was recently talking with a friend and student (sometimes they overlap), about her one woman show. She really, really wanted it to be good. Amazing. To take it to the next level. The thing Read more…
5. It’s a pain in the butt. Solo shows are so much work. You gotta decide what you’re going to talk about. You gotta get over the fear of not being good enough. You gotta put in the time to write it. You gotta actually Read more…
Ok, here's the good news… finally! Turns out learning your lines is really not so hard after all! I started writing and performing one woman shows in the last six years, and all you have to do to learn your lines is put the time Read more…