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Aliza Pearl is an actress and writer of African American and Puerto Rican heritage from Newark, NJ. Trained in theatre, on-camera acting, improv, and music, she performs improv and sketch comedy throughout Los Angeles. As a writer, Aliza specializes in socially conscious grounded comedy and dramedy, as well as sci-fi and fantasy genres. After studying drama and musical theatre at Princeton University, she toured nationally in musical theatre and was part of the original cast of Zora Neale Hurston's blues musical "Polk County," which premiered on the East Coast at McCarter Theater and on the West Coast at Berkeley Repertory Theater.
In film and television, Aliza has appeared on "Days of Our Lives," season 2 of Showtime's "House of Lies," and is a recurring guest on the musical improv series "Show Offs" on BYUtv. She has also appeared in numerous indie films, including "Beached" by Nic Collins & Sean Godsey (SXSW 2020), "The End" by Matthew Smith (screened at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, earning nominations for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Score, Best Screenplay, and Best Short Film), Wong Fu Productions' feature "Everything Before Us" directed by Wesley Chan and Philip Wang, and "Something is Killing Tate" by Leon Lozano starring Jocko Sims, which received multiple festival awards. More recently, she acted in the feature films "Newly Single," Lone Suspect's indie film "Faith Based," "Darkness Falls," and contributed as an actor, improviser, and associate producer on Ripley Improv's fully improvised anthology series "As We Go Along."
Aliza has starred in numerous online series, Twitch RPG gaming shows, and promotional projects. Recently, she hosted and performed in an RPG for the "Carnival Row" docuseries "Into Carnival Row" and its related tabletop RPG game "The Heist on the Row." She spent two years writing for Nerdist's daily pop culture news show "Nerdist News," as well as the video sketch series "Nerdist Presents" and "Team Nerdist." She has been a regular cast member on popular RPG shows such as "Shield of Tomorrow" and "Callisto 6" on Geek and Sundry, and "Rat Queens" on Hyper RPG. Online, Aliza has appeared in various scripted web series including Comediva's "BAMF Girls Club" as Michonne (featured on Virgin America In-Flight Entertainment), Black and Sexy TV's "Yellow" and "Hello Cupid," "The Silverlake Badminton and Adventurers Club," and "The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros," which was featured on Hulu.
In 2011, Aliza co-wrote the award-winning dramatic coming-of-age TV pilot "Whitehall," which won Best Teleplay at the BET Urbanworld Film Festival. She frequently participates as a panelist at comic conventions and continues to perform improv with her troupes: "The Improvised Generation," which creates hour-long improvised plays inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation; Ripley Improv, an all-female improv and film collective that uses narrative improv to explore various genres on stage and screen; and Essence Improv, an all-Black female long-form improv group. Aliza speaks Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and some Klingon, has studied Tae Kwon Do, and if not occupied with international espionage, hopes to one day either battle robots or command a starship.
