Alicia McDaid sucked her thumb until 3rd grade and watched The Breakfast Club and Desperately Seeking Susan at least 50 times each between the ages of 9 and 10. She believes these are her main relationship and style influences to this day. Her personality may or may not be a conscious or unconscious composite of the characters played by Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as well as the comic strip character Cathy. She should probably try to date an Anthony Michael Hall type but is drawn to the Judd Nelsons.
As an Irish Catholic who attended a Quaker High school with mostly Jewish students and who became involved in the 12 Step module of therapy as a young teen, she indulged in the processes of being lost and found ad infinitum. As a 15 year old, she received 2 (curable) STD's while losing her virginity in Trenton, New Jersey and believes comedy and tragedy are like chocolate and peanut butter. An avid, devout and possibly obsessive compulsive therapy hobbyist, she has tried everything from new age support groups to stone age psychiatry to hot stone massage. From colonics to Rasputinesque hypno-acupuncture to 12 step to step-aerobic constipation it has been a thoroughly entertaining romp in the dark.
While she has never really found the ultimate "solution", she has spent a lot of money. She earns money as a set painter for theater and film and currently performs with Greg Arden in the musical comedy performance art group Rush-N-Disco. The duo performed in the 2008 PICA TBA festival and will perform in On the Boards' Northwest New Works festival in Seattle in June 2009.