Bio


     
Maria performs stand up comedy in Boston, mostly.  She also performs in New York clubs sometimes, a few times at the historic Friars Club to a room full of the best geriatric audience a comedian could ask for, at comedy festivals all over the nation, and recently at a lovely college in California, Pennsylvania, which she was delighted to learn existed.  

She also auditions for tons of stuff, and sometimes she wins a commercial job like this Bertucci's commercial, in which her torso and voice are big stars, or this Maine Lottery one, in which she gets pelted in the face with potato chips.

Maria recently hosted a segment on Chronicle, in which a magician magically made two balls just appear from thin air in her left hand. It really was a moment to remember. Two balls!

As co-director and creator of the Women in Comedy Festival, Maria has performed with some of her favorite comedians, like Morgan Murphy and Maria Bamford, a coincidental name twin. 

Twice nominated Best Stand up Comedian by Boston Phoenix, Maria was Comic in Residence at the Comedy Studio, and a semi-finalist in the Magner's Comedy Festival and the Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival. Maria is an alumna of Improv Asylum's Mainstage, where she wrote sketch and performed improv and sketch, did corporate shows and training, and taught  comedy. 

Right now she leads stand up workshops sometimes at ImprovBoston, where she also co-hosts her favorite weekly stand up show in the universe, Stand up Sundays, every Sunday at 9 pm.

Word on the Street!

“Maria consistently kills at Mottley's, and is one of our most-requested hosts. She's incredibly easy to work with and always has some new, solid material. She's a total pro.”  

-Tim McIntire, Owner, Mottley’s Comedy Club in Faneuil Hall, Boston

“Maria is one of Boston’s best stand up and improv comedians.  She’s incredibly talented and I always know she’ll bring energy to any show I book.”

-Rick Jenkins, Owner, Comedy Studio, Harvard Square, Cambridge

“When I saw her onstage, Maria struck me as a comedian that is not only hilarious, but someone who really has it all together.  You can tell she takes comedy seriously.”

-Ian Cohen, New Wave Entertainment, CA


“Exciting Newcomer!”

-The Boston Herald


“When Maria does stand up, I love it, because it’s like she’s saying all these things that I think to myself when I’m high, and can never articulate afterwards.”

-Ken Breese, Comedian, ImprovBoston


“Maria’s pretty hot.  I like her hairdo most of the time.”

-Justin Carr, Maria’s husband