Alicia Payne is a professional actor, writer and facilitator whose acting credits encompass theatre, film, television and radio. Her professional memberships include ACTRA, CAEA, Dramatists Guild of America and Playwrights Guild of Canada, where she served as president.

She is an adaptive facilitator for arts organizations and has toured schools as a performer and facilitator for several theatres, including those that specialize in forum theatre, an interactive tool for social change. 

Alicia was heard weekly on "Where Am I?" a contest she developed for Metro Morning on CBC Radio. She is also a singer (mezzo soprano/alto) and was a member of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale for two seasons.

Alicia’s new play development experience includes being an actor/narrator in numerous workshops and readings and bringing new characters to life such as Fatima in A Tender Path and Gwen/Lateesha in Justice for Maurice Henry Carter.

As a writer, she participated in the 2022 Gros Morne Playwrights Residency; 2022 & 2023 Valdez Playwrights Conference in Alaska; and a workshop production of her on-act play PAZ was mounted in the 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival. Alicia is an Alumna of the Playwrights Collective at Theatre Passe Muraille, the Tapestry Opera Composer Librettist Laboratory and the BIPOC TV & Film Kids' TV Writing Bootcamp and Incubator.  

Artist educator credits include leading workshops for Uth Ink/Luminato, Lakeshore Arts graphic novel program SHAZAAM!, Tapestry Opera Youth INside Opera. the Conference of Independent Schools Drama Festival, and Play! A Symposium at the 14th World Festival of Children's Theatre.

Alicia is the audiobook narrator of Flower Diary by Molly Peacock and a co-founder of Arbez Drama Projects, an independent, not-for-profit theatre company with several projects at different stages of development.