Tricia Devereaux

I grew up in the Midwest, where I graduated from college with a bachelor's degree and started graduate school. After getting married, I started stripping at a DejaVu to help pay the bills. I immediately loved the attention, especially since I had been pretty much a nerdy wallflower in high school! I met a lot of porn stars while at DejaVu, most of whom encouraged me to start doing videos. My husband wasn't too thrilled at how much I liked doing videos right from the start, and neither was my graduate school. So I left both of them behind, and moved out to LA. I was pretty naive, and looking back I wonder if maybe I didn't push hard enough, or market myself enough, but I was having fun at least. I fell in love again, this time to director Rob Black. We almost got married, but he told me I'd have to quit doing porno. He had already limited me to only making videos with him. So once again, I moved on to new things. I was succeeding in the video business, stripping as dance club feature, and doing magazine layouts in the fall of 1997. I even won Best All-Girl Sex Scene with Jeanna Fine and PJ Sparxx at the AVN Awards in January 1998. Then, later that week, I found out that I had somehow gotten HIV. I didn't know from who or where, but I was of course devastated. (It was later discovered that it was most likely Marc Wallice who had infected at least 4 or more porn girls.) I had a lot of emotional support from friends and fans, but decided to move home to be close to my family. I stayed in touch with a few good friends back in LA. This included a new friend, John Stagliano. John and I kept in touch over the next few months and agreed to meet in Chicago. I can't speak for him, but I think after I got over my nervous high-school jitters, we hit it off from the start. (And the sex wasn't too bad either!) Anyway, after a few visits to each other and lots of phone calls, John asked me to move back to California. I did in August 1999, and have been loving it. Currently, I work in the office at Evil Angel on DVD production and sales. I was at the July 1999, January 2000, and July 2000 conventions and was relieved to see all of my old fans again. I love to travel whenever I get the chance. I still do magazine layouts from time to time, dance at a few clubs around the nation, and in November 1999 I did another hardcore scene, with John for Buttman's Toy Stories. I think it was one of my best scenes ever, partly because the emotions were completely real. The video won Video of the Year from the XRCO awards. I'm looking forward to directing for the first time with John helping me. In the meantime, I'm learning how to edit video while I'm running the DVD department. As for my health (since I get a lot of inquiries about that), I feel great (as does John) and see my doctor regularly, who tells me I'm doing terrific. I'm not sure what the future holds, but right now John and I are ultra-busy with our new daughter. For almost all of 2002, I worked on The Fashionistas, John's new 35mm film. We started pre-production in early 2002, but shooting started late May 2002. The VHS was released in September 2002 and the DVD in January 2003. Now I'm back at Evil Angel DVD and trying to find time again for my own projects, which is really difficult, but I keep hoping I'll find the time! I co-produced a vignette video for Evil Angel called Buttman Comics Presents... Tales From the Crack which came out in September 2004, and on DVD in January 2005. It won Best Vignette Movie at the 2005 AVN Awards. I directed Buttman Comics Presents... Vault of Whores, which was my first movie as a director. David Lord was the co-director. Now I'm getting ready to work on Fashionistas 2 with John this year. Tricia Devereaux