Alice was one of the first regulars on “Saturday Night Live”, playing “Peuta” with Jim Henson and the Muppets in “The Land of Gorch” for two seasons. She went on to perform on “Capt. Kangaroo” for three years on “The Adventures of Slim Goodbody in NutriCity”, playing a host of different characters as a puppeteer, actress and singer.
She designed and built Muppet-style puppets for television out of her studio in New York City, which was featured on the “Today” show and in New York magazine.
In Los Angeles Alice performed as a puppeteer with Shari Lewis and Lambchop, sang and performed on a Johnny Carson television pilot called “Wizzle Falls”, starring William Conrad, and on a kids’ weekly TV series called “The Kid-a-Littles”. Her adventures with Shari and others took her on location to Bermuda, San Francisco, back to NYC (to puppeteer on “Perry Como’s Christmas in New York”, starring Michelle Lee) and to St. Louis to tape Shari Lewis’s many shows for children.
As an actor Alice trained and performed in New York City, acting Off-Broadway and with The Circle Repertory Theater. At McCarter Repertory Theater in Princeton and at the Williamstown Summer Theater Alice acted with such luminaries as Dom deLuise and Olympia Dukakis. She acted on tour in countless dinner-theaters throughout the South.
Her passion is for connecting with nature – taking care of animals (a long-time volunteer at the Animal Refuge League, and running her own pet-care business out of Portland, Maine), growing things, and being outdoors – swimming, hiking, and finding and collecting amazing things along the way. “I love to make things, create things, whether it be in the garden or “at the easel”, so to speak”, she says, and this is reflected in her art.
Later on in life Alice performed two years of national service through the AmeriCorps VISTA and the AmeriCorps Promise Fellow programs, focusing on food security for the state of Maine, and publishing two books for DHHS on hikes for school groups in Maine, and gardening for children in Maine. The books were distributed to over 1000 schools and learning centers statewide. She tutored children in the public schools in Portland and in Gorham, and has taught puppetry and art classes to both children and adults in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Maine.
She lived in Costa Rica in recent years, graduating from TEFL International in Quepos, with a degree in ESOL. She came back to Maine and taught ESOL to refugees and immigrants here.
She was a DJ on the radio for years for both classical and rock stations, and also sang alto in the New England-based band and choir, “Rock My Soul”, touring with them for eight years.
Alice holds bachelor’s degrees from Antioch College in Ohio with a major in Theater Arts and from The University of Southern Maine with a major in Communications. She studies art at Maine College of Art (MECA) and at The University of Southern Maine.
Gardening, yoga and fur babies are Alice’s favorite hobbies “dujour”. She is from New York and Maine, and currently resides in rural Maine.