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Maritza is a Brooklyn-based improviser, improv teacher, and bookseller originally from California's San Joaquin Valley, with over ten years of experience teaching and coaching improv.

She has taught and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Training Center, Squirrel Comedy Theatre, and Stone Street Studios, a conservatory of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Maritza has taught corporate workshops, crafted and led specialized workshops at universities, and coached improv in NYC middle schools and high schools.

At UCB, she improvised with weekend house team The Law Firm and with Living Room: The First Generation, an improv show based on stories about growing up in immigrant households as first generation Americans. She previously performed on Harold Night and Lloyd Night with teams At Last!, Party City, seventeen, and the Nightmare.

Maritza previously hosted the long-running indie improv show Kaleidoscope, and has acted in videos for Disney+, MTVNews, and Fusion. She studied improv, sketch, and characters at UCB Theatre, as well as history, creative writing, and Spanish literature at New York University.