
After being held
by Elvis on the Graceland grounds at the tender age of four and pulling her
huffy-puffy train up and down her driveway in Memphis, TN, Alicia Dennis decided
she pretty much had done it all and decided to retire. She made the difficult
decision to come out of retirement about ten years later when she wrote and
directed Nancy Drew plays at her elementary school in Houma, LA. After a very
special performance, featuring a completely improvised final act won rave reviews
from everyone in the audience (excluding the principle and all teachers), she
realized that improvisation would save the world or at least save her the trouble
of having to prepare a lot in life.
Improv has made it possible for Alicia to pretend to be many people - a news
reporter and sports writer, a lobbyist, a marketing executive, a project manager,
a public relations schmoozer, a sales person, a freelancer, an actor, a singer
- sometimes all simultaneously. "No" is not a word she hears or understands
and her caffeine intake must be monitored regularly.
She has worked
with improv and theatre groups in Seattle, San Francisco and New Orleans and
is happy, happy, happy to be smack dab in the middle of the Austin improv scene.
She asks that anyone who has spoken with Elvis recently to please tell him it
turns out he was completely right about fried peanut butter banana sandwiches.