The first rule in writing an artist’s program bio is to find some interesting and unique detail that will catch the reader’s interest. This tidbit need not be directly relevant to the production at hand or even to the artist’s ostensible talent, so long as it’s, as the journalists like to say, “hooky.”

Which is why La Cieca is simply beating herself up right now since this definitively hooky bio detail is already taken:

“A self-confessed egomaniac, he once went blind while living in the Chelsea Hotel, New York, addicted to crystal meth.” [Times Online]