Tricia grew up in the South, where she was strongly encouraged to pursue business, marry a Southerner, raise children, and live below the Mason Dixon line. Attempts to lead that life backfired. She is now a writer, performer, and artist, and lives in New England. She did get married, but her husband is from Ireland. They have a dog.
An award-winning visual artist, Tricia changed her creative focus from studio art to writing and performing in 2008. Informed by personal experience, her work concentrates on transformation, often questioning conformity and celebrating difference. She is a frequent guest storyteller with the acclaimed storytelling organization The Moth, which The Wall Street Journal calls New York’s “hippest, hottest literary event.” She was broadcast on the Peabody Award-winning NPR show, The Moth Radio Hour; opened for their flagship program, The Moth Mainstage; performs with The Moth on the Road, and was featured in a Moth podcast, which appears on The Best of The Moth Radio Hour CD Vol. 19. One of her stories, “How To Draw A Nekkid Man,” generated thousands of hits on social media websites and gave her numerous chances to teach audiences that the correct pronunciation of the word naked is indeed “nekkid.”
Her one-woman show, I Will Be Good, was selected for the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) and further honored to appear in the FringeNYC Encore Series. The show debuted in New Hampshire in December 2008, and Tricia has since performed it throughout New England and the South, including runs at Tampa’s Straz Center for the Performing Arts and the Nantucket Theater Workshop.
She’s been a guest artist at the StoryCollider in Brooklyn and at the WOW Café Theater in Manhattan, and a visiting artist at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH. Tricia recently performed at the 16th Annual Nantucket Film Festival as part of the popular signature program Late Night Storytelling, hosted by Anne Meara and Mike O’Malley.
In addition to her weekly blog, Tricia is currently writing her next show, Be Fruitful and Multiply (working title).
In a previous life, Tricia developed communications and training programs for leading business institutions, including Harvard Business School Publishing and Fidelity Investments. After nearly 15 years, she decided to redirect her creative energies from business to the arts. She uses her transformation from corporate executive to contemporary artist not only as creative material – there are some really good stories — but also as a way to share the transforming power of the arts with the business community. Capitalizing on her experience, Tricia will be joining The Moth’s corporate training program, MothSHOP Corporate, which trains employees to use the power of storytelling to promote their goals and ideas.