An autoBIOGRAPHY

A CUSTOM AND NECESSITY IN TODAY’S DAY & AGE

Maor was born and raised in Aventura, Miami, FL, USA. She of Sephardic Jewish descent on her father’s side, and Honduran on her mother’s side. Her mother is a convert to Judaism.

Maor attended Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami’s Design District, where she studied fine arts, photography, sculpture and digital arts - eventually becoming a recipient of the first-ever Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz scholarship to study for the summer at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, where she focused on Illustration.

After high school, Maor went on to attend Florida International University’s School of Communication + Journalism and majored in Broadcast Journalism, as the school did not have a film program available at the time. In 2016 she interned for VIACOM Miami.

In between journalism classes she snuck in electives for acting, theater, film studies and web design. In her free time, she balanced various part time jobs with her YouTube channel, where she experimented with video projects (many of her videos focused on her favorite childhood hobby of cosplay - but her love of narrative and comedy was beginning to show itself).

It was during these years that she fell madly in love with the craft of acting. She was featured in several Broward College and Miami-Dade College thesis films. Dissatisfied with the far and few in between roles that were available to her, she began trying her hand at screenwriting.

She trained at Miami’s Villain Theater, where she practiced improv, musical improv and stand-up comedy up to 6 nights a week - occasionally teaching improv workshops. She also became a founding member of VT-TV, Villain Theater’s digital content comedy sketch program. She also worked frequently as a product talent for pet retailer Chewy.com, thanks to her teleprompter skills from journalism school.

She moved to Los Angeles after being accepted to UCLA TFT’s MFA level Professional Program for Screenwriting (Class of 2020). She has since written and starred in various projects and was named a writer finalist for NBC Universal’s Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam for 2021. In 2023, she was named a Second Rounder for her first TV spec titled ‘Not So Easy Bake Oven’ based on FX’s What We Do In The Shadows, and wrote three original pilots that are currently being prepped for the upcoming mentorship season.

In her free time, she enjoys taking extracurricular classes at UCB, watching anime, and trying foreign snacks from international grocery stores.

Dreams for the future (work in progress, will get back to this)