Aliza Pearl

Actor, writer, producer, & your “go to” space geek.

In addition to playing heroines, villains, love interests, and rebels with Ripley Improv, Aliza Pearl is an actor, writer, Trekkie, gamemaster, and content creator originally from Newark, NJ. Of African-American, Puerto Rican, and Afro-Caribbean heritage, Aliza explores identity and split cultural ties through scifi, comedy and genre storytelling. Having gotten her start in musical theater, she regularly performs narrative improv with Ripley Improv, and the improvised Star Trek inspired show “The Improvised Generation”. On-screen acting credits include: Showtime's "House of Lies", "Days of Our Lives", recurring guest on BYUtv's "Show Offs!" feature films "Newly Single" "Darkness Falls" "Everything Before Us" and "Faith Based," award winning indie feature “Something is Killing Tate” (Starz), plus various short films ("Beached" with Nic Collins, "The End" with Matthew Philip Smith) and viral videos with YouTube giants WongFu Productions, Black and Sexy TV, and Comediva's popular webseries "BAMF Girls Club.” (alizapearl.com/acting) As a writer, Aliza has a sketch comedy background, and received the Best Teleplay writing award at the Urbanworld Film Festival for TV pilot “Whitehall.” (alizapearl.com/writing)

Soon after guest GMing "Weave Society" on Geek & Sundry in 2018, Aliza became the Game Master of "Overlight: Fractured Paradox," a 6-episode campaign, also on Geek & Sundry. In December 2020 she moved from a player's seat to the GM chair in the all-Klingon Star Trek Adventures campaign "Blood of the Void," streaming monthly on the last Monday of the month at 6:30pm PT on Queue Times (twitch.tv/QueueTimes). In addition to Weave, Overlight, and Star Trek Adventures, Aliza has GMed private and streamed games in various other tabletop systems, including Dungeon World, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cat Power, Star Trek Adventures, and Dungeons & Dragons 5e. (alizapearl.com/gaming)

Aliza has hosted for Nerdist, Geek & Sundry, and Pop Culture Hero Coalition (Chase Masterson’s anti-bullying nonprofit). She was a host and RPG performer in a "Carnival Row" docuseries "Into Carnival Row" and its accompanying RPG tabletop game, "The Heist on the Row", all in partnership with Nerdist, Legendary TV, and Amazon. She's appeared on panels at Star Trek Las Vegas (STLV), San Diego Comic Con, Los Angeles Comic Con, Long Beach Comic Con, and Geek Girl Con in Seattle.

Twitter: @alizapearl
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