City Girl

Hello everyone. My parents blessed me with the name Alyssa Jean Alicino eighteen years ago in Beth Israel Hospital on this wonderful island of Manhattan.  I am a fourth generation Italian-American; my great-grandparents came to the United States a long time ago from Sicily and Naples.  I believe that I am the epitome of “American.”   I spent the first seventeen years of my life in a small town called College Point located in Queens.  I attended a private Lutheran School for all of grammar school and spent the last four of my years at Townsend Harris High School, a school for the Humanities.  Even though I lived in Queens as a child, I spent most of my time in Manhattan and currently reside with my grandmother on the Lower East Side.  As a child I took pretty much every lesson available for a young girl to attend. Piano lessons, Ice-skating lessons, swimming lessons, girl-scouts, you name it I’ve probably done it.  However, the one activity which stuck to me was dance.   At a young age, I began taking dance lessons and always enjoyed it.  From ballet to modern to hip hop to contemporary to tap, I loved the way my body felt when in motion.   It was a way of life. This love for dance evolved into a love for musical theater and eventually performing of all types.  With law school in my future, I believe that theater has given me the skills necessary to take control of any situation placed in front of me.   During my next four years at the Macaulay College at Baruch, I believe that I am going to major in International Business with minors in Spanish and Political Science.