Biography

A graduate of the Groundlings School, Maria has been published in The New Yorker's Shouts and Murmurs, Slackjaw, and Points in Case. She's the recipient of a writer-in-residence award at Vermont Studio Center and St. Nells Humor Writers.

As a comedic performer, she was featured as mob mistress "Skinnie Minnie" in the independent film Sharkskin (2015), directed by Dan Perri. You can also see her as Detective Bloomfield a "gruff, grizzled woman of the law in pursuit of a mysterious serial killer known only as the Dickripper," in the short film DickRipper (2016). Other credits include MTV's "Girl Code", Lifetime's "My Crazy Ex", and National Geographic's "The Numbers Game".

A co-founder of the HBO Women in Comedy Festival, Maria wrote and performed stand-up and sketch at UCB LA and NY, Groundlings, Comedy Central Stage, Friars Club NY, PIT NY, and lots of dive bars with sticky floors.

Now she lives in the woods of Maine and writes short humor pieces on very small scraps of paper that she finds around the house.
- IMDb mini biography by: Maria Ciampa