Annamaria Bellezza holds a BAT in the Teaching of French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MA in Italian Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.

She is co-author of Prego, An Invitation to Italian and Il reale e il possibile, An Intermediate to Advanced Reader. Ms. Bellezza brings her passion for the performing arts to the classroom, drawing on her training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the Tisch School of Drama at New York University  She is also a freelance script consultant and translator, and has written her first screenplay, currently being pitched to producers. She is the Academic Coordinator for the Berkeley Language Center, and the Organizer/Director of Words in Action, a multilingual student performance.