Aliza Pearl is an actress and writer of African American and Puerto Rican descent originally from Newark, NJ. Trained in theatre, on-camera acting, improv, and music, Aliza does improv and sketch throughout LA. As a writer, her focus is on socially aware grounded comedy and dramedy, sci-fi, and fantasy, being heavily influenced by Tina Fey, Joss Whedon, and Star Trek. After studying and performing drama and musical theatre at Princeton University, Aliza toured nationally in musical theatre, and was a cast member of the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston’s blues musical “Polk County” which debuted on the east coast at McCarter Theater and on the west coast at the Berkeley Repertory Theater.

In television and film, Aliza has appeared on “Days of Our Lives”, season 2 of Showtime’s “House of Lies”, is a recurring guest on musical improv series “Show Offs” on BYUtv, and has shot many indie films, including the Wong Fu Productions feature “Everything Before Us”, and “Something is Killing Tate” starring Jocko Sims, which garnered multiple festival awards. Most recently she acted in the feature films “Newly Single”, “Anderson Falls”, Lone Suspect’s indie feature film “Faith Based”, as well as acted in, improvised, and associate produced Ripley Improv’s completely improvised anthology series “As We Go Along.”