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With an ambiguous ethnic appearance, jokes about
Star Trek
and a name no one can fully pronounce,
Elicia Sanchez is a stand-up comedian,
part-time video store employee, a card-holding member of both the
Elvira,
Mistress of the Dark and
Iron Maiden fan clubs and mostly an adult.
Born in Olympia, WA, but raised in small farming towns and on the
Quinault Indian Reservation made famous by vampires, she moved to
the Emerald City in 2007 after a failed attempt at relocating to Japan to become an English teacher/hand model. Following years of encouragement by comedian
friends, Elicia finally got the courage to perform stand up at an open mic at
the famed
Comedy Underground in October of 2010. She has been balancing meager
paychecks between comic books and happy hour while performing stand-up comedy
in the Seattle area and surrounding cities ever since.
Elicia's cynical, self-deprecating comedic style consists of personal stories, observations and an abundance of overshares culminating in what can only be and has been described as ‘
a charming train wreck.’ Writer
Lindy West (
The Stranger,
Jezebel) has called her “…
a grumpy nugget of delight,” and “…
[one of] the five funniest people in Seattle.” Elicia
has performed with national headliners such as
Graham Elwood,
Alex Koll, Ron Funches and
Jackie
Kashian and has opened for comedians
Duncan Trussell (Drunk History) and Hari Kondabolu (Totally Biased w/ W. Kamau Bell).
She has performed at Seattle's
Bumbershoot
Music and Arts Festival, Seattle's annual horror festival,
Crypticon and Portland's famed
Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
She has also appeared in an
online
commercial for
Real Networks, local independent film
Steel of Fire Warriors: 2010 A.D. and an
upcoming documentary on the history of VHS titled,
Rewind This!
Elicia is currently a writer/member of the Seattle-based comedy troupe,
Children of the Atom, the host of a
comedy podcast about awesomely bad movies titled,
The Enematic Cinematic and co-producer of three local Seattle comedy shows (Level
Up!, The Enematic Cinematic: LIVES and Wine Shots: Comedy's Happiest Hour).
She is a lover of all things tacky,
horribly awful movies and spreadable foods.
Her dislikes include loud people on the bus, cancer and stuffed animals with arms
and legs.
Currently, Elicia resides in Seattle, WA where when not performing, she splits her time between experiencing an unnecessary fear of werewolves, watching creepy forensic crime shows and dusting her action figures.
