Maria Corina Ramirez is an actress, writer, director and producer who earned her B.F.A from New World School of the Arts. Her original screenplay, One Day, was a 2022 top ten finalist for the Tribeca Film Festival Untold Stories grant. Her debut feature film, Bridges, premiered to sold-out audiences and much acclaim at the 25th UrbanWorld Film Festival, the 38th Miami International Film Festival, and the 20th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. It was dubbed "one of the most accurate film portrayals of what immigrant youths withstand in this country" by the L.A times and "must-see cinema" by Remezcla. Prior, Ramirez starred in and co-wrote Complex Network's first-ever scripted series, Grown, which was a co-production with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Pearl Street Films and an HBO Project Greenlight winner. Her solo theatre piece, Supa'Nova, won an artist residency at Miami Theatre Center and a producer's scholarship for the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival in L.A. In 2019, she was invited to participate in the Thread creative writing intensive at Yale University.