Maritza is a Brooklyn-based improviser, improv teacher, and bookseller originally from California's San Joaquin Valley. She taught and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Training Center up until the pandemic settled in. 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. Before that, she performed on Harold Night for two years with At Last! and Party City, and on Lloyd Night for two years with seventeen and the Nightmare.