Alicia Corrales

**Alicia Tyra Corrales-Connor**, also known as **Alicia Tyra** and **Alicia Corrales**, is a Spanish-Scottish actor, singer, and dancer. They played Katherine Howard in the first Bliss Cruise Production of *Six the Musical*, beginning on 6 September 2019. They left the show in January 2020, and their role was taken over Bryony Duncan.

Alicia was also briefly the understudy for Katherine Howard in the 2019-20 UK Tour from 8 January to 1 February 2020. They were additionally a standby for Katherine Howard in the 2019-21 West End Production from 14 to 16 March 2020.

## Personal Life

Alicia openly identifies as non-binary and pansexual. They have also referred to themself as queer. They use they/them pronouns. Alicia is vegan and has three dogs named Tinkerbella, Mona Lisa and Marzipan.

## Trivia

* Alicia had originally wanted to be a pop star instead of a theatre performer.
* Alicia was the youngest professional principal performer to play Katherine Howard, being 20 years old at the time of their debut.
* Alicia has the same birthday as fellow Bliss cast member, Lori McLare.
* *Six* was Alicia's professional debut.
* Alicia's favourite songs to perform are *Ex-Wives (Reprise)* and *Don't Lose Ur Head*.
* Alicia's favourite line in the show is "The Thomas Cromwell amongst the royal ministers between 1532 and 1540," which is said by Katherine Howard.
* If Alicia could play any other queen, they would want to play either Catherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn.
* Alicia developed a stutter on their line "...really help to convey that".
* Alicia had to learn all three harmony lines while they were in the cruise and the UK Tour productions, as well as while they were on standby for the West End production.
* In Alicia's opinion, the best part of being in the Bliss Cruise cast was all the performers that they met through it.
* In Alicia's opinion, the best parts of being in the UK Tour cast were the other queens, the venues, and being in the same show, but with a different group of people.
* Alicia's personal queenspirations are Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Madison Beer, and Billie Eilish.
* Alicia's dream jobs outside of performing are being a vegan cake decorator, a life coach or a therapist.
* Some of Alicia's dream roles include Veronica Sawyer in *Heathers*, Lydia Deetz in *Beetlejuice*, Regina George or Janis Sarkisian in *Mean Girls*, and Mimi Marquez or Maureen Johnson in *RENT*.
* Alicia's go-to shower-song is Tori Kelly's version of *Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing*, but she also enjoys riffing and singing whistle notes.
* Alicia is in a metal band with their dad called Murder in Greenvale.
	+ The name of the band is inspired by a video game they used to play together in which there was a murder in a town called Greenvale.
	+ So far, they have released five songs entitled *Falling*, *Butterflies*, *Into the Night, STAY* and *Start Again.*
* As a solo artist, Alicia releases music under the name Alicia Tyra. So far, they have released two singles titled *SoulM8* and *White Sheets*.
* Alicia was meant to be a guest performer at *Six*'s "Queens Uncrowned" concert alongside Vicki Manser, Grace Mouat, Renée Lamb, and Maiya Quansah-Breed, as well as the 2019-20 UK Tour cast. However, the concert was ultimately cancelled due to COVID-19.
* Alicia was featured in the 9th episode of *The Queendom Podcast - A SIX: The Musical Podcast*.
	+ They were also featured in the 16th episode of the podcast, which was a reunion episode of the first Bliss Cruise cast.
	+ They were also featured in the 20th episode of *Three's Not A Crowd* podcast.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B08Cg6Dn1GB/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.spotlight.com/3032-0193-2055
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQnyM5mnPWF/
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CUCj2DAoRm6/
5. ↑ https://instagram.com/dinkie\_donkies
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX4yR\_48WK8
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFgxqwtJso