 At age 17, Liccione was awarded a scholarship to Marymount Manhattan College where she went on to major in dance.While attending college, Liccione started to take acting and comedy improv classes, speaking on stage for the first time.She was cast as the lead in a number of college productions including the role as The Evil Step Mother in the musical Cinderella Ragtime, the role of the Blue Queen in "The Chess Game" and the role of the Wolf in Peter and the Wolf.