Maria Baltazzi

Who is Maria Baltazzi?

Maria Baltazzi is a Los Angeles-based television producer, known for her work on a variety of unscripted, action-adventure shows. Some of her credits include working as one of the original four producers on CBS's Emmy award winning show, Survivor and Executive Producer on TLC's record breaking Sarah Palin's Alaska, which debuted at 5 million viewers. The first episode of this eight-part series was the most watched program launch in the network's history.

Maria has done a variety of shows that have aired on CBS, History, TLC, Discovery, and A&E. In 2001, she received an Emmy for the first two seasons of Survivor. That same year she was also Emmy nominated for Eco Challenge: Borneo.

After seven seasons, Maria left Survivor to begin developing shows and showrunning. In 2009, in association with Mark Burnett, Maria developed and Executive Produced History Channel's critically acclaimed Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone. Then, she went on to produce TLC's hit series, Sarah Palin's Alaska in 2010.

Maria's production banner is called "Sojourn".