Creator
Tricia is a versatile creator with a diverse portfolio spanning multiple genres. The comedy web series Mother Judger, which she cocreated with The Refinery, was acquired by Scary Mommy, while her series Mommy Blogger was optioned for television and reimagined as LIKE ME. Tricia also co-wrote Here You Come Again alongside Bruce Villanch and Gabriel Barre – a production that continues to be staged globally.
HERE YOU COME AGAIN
For the first time ever, all of Dolly Parton’s biggest hits can be experienced together in a rollicking and joyous new musical comedy.
Packed with the iconic songs Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream, I Will Always Love You, Here You Come Again and more, this lively and touching new musical tells the story of a diehard fan whose fantasy version of international icon Dolly Parton gets him through trying times. With her wit, humour and charm, Dolly teaches him a whole lot about life, love and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps…even if your bootstraps don’t have rhinestones! This is one musical that is sure to make you smile.
After several successful runs across the United States, Here You Come Again was originally written by two-time Emmy award-winning comedy and songwriter Bruce Vilanch with Gabriel Barre (who also directs) and Tricia Paoluccio (who also plays Dolly), and has now been adapted for the UK by acclaimed British playwright Jonathan Harvey (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Coronation Street).
LIKE ME
Mommy blogs occupy an active and lucrative corner of the internet, where well-heeled and well-groomed parents parade well-dressed families in front of the webcam in exchange for sponsorship dollars, free stuff and a certain kind of infamy.
Frustrated New York City housewife Addie, driven by a lifetime of thwarted creative impulses and a lifetime of insatiable hunger for attention, wants badly to conquer this world, own it and, in turn, become a celebrity. She's convinced that she and her family are exceptional and she needs the rest of the world to know it too. So she pressures Jared, her feckless but obedient husband, to quit his banking job and partner with her in the task of turning the obviously contrived performance of lovingly doting on their four sons into a thriving and hip vlog. She claims that this endeavor is in service of her family, but the fact that we never actually see her kids' faces makes it clear that Addie's focus is somewhere else altogether.
And as it turns out, putting a happy face on daily domesticity is easier said than vlogged. Through her wishful webisodes, the eternally optimistic Addie, desperate to present herself to the world as a perfect mom, unwittingly — relatably, hilariously — unveils the flaws and fissures undercutting her familial foundation. As she starts to meet some of her mommy-blogging heroes, she comes to realize she's not alone in this self-deception, leading to an existential crisis at the end of Season 1.
It's a comedy — sometimes cringey, sometimes cathartic — about a relentless hunger for approval and a compulsion to document every moment: something anyone with a smartphone and an Instagram account can probably identify with. And if Addie never finds worldwide fame, maybe at least she and her family will find a way to stop injuring themselves on camera.
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