Photo: Coco Jourdana
Tricia Paoluccio is a multi talented actor, unique visual artist, and creator. Growing up on an almond farm in Modesto, CA, with an inventor as a father and school teacher mother, Tricia moved to NYC and sold her art on the street before she could make a living as an actor. Since making her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, she has worked consistently in NY theatre on Broadway and off, in television and film. Her range of work spans from playing Cressida in Sir Peter Hall’s Troilus and Cressida, to originating the role of Donna in the cult Off Bway hit Debbie Does Dallas, to co-starring in the inaurgal production of Edward Albee’s Lady from Dubuque at the Signature Theatre, to Chava in David Leveaux’s Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. As a visual artist, Tricia has been commissioned to create botanical designs for luminaries in the fashion, publishing, and music industries. The success of her collaborations led to her launching her brand: Domain of the Flowerings which utilizes pressed flower imagery in high design. As a creator she created and produced the cringe comedy web-series, Mommy Blogger, spoofing the world of influencers which was later optioned. During the pandemic she cowrote a two person musical where she gets to play her lifelong idol: Dolly Parton. This show, entitled Here You Come Again, was approved by Dolly, who has given Tricia permission to play her and given the creative team the world wide grand rights to all of her music. After a successful US tour in 2023, the show will now go on a major national tour in the UK, beginning in April 2024, ending on the West End in 2025. She divides her time between her family’s California farm and NYC, where she lives with her two sons and husband, director Gabriel Barre. She is passionate about prison reform, having spent a dozen years serving as a volunteer chaplain at Manhattan Detention Center.