Monica
Rose
Slater
Hunter Carrico Photography
About Me
I'm Monica Rose, a Brazilian-American, non-union actor, singer, writer, and educator based in San Francisco.
My heart lives in many homes: I grew in Virginia, spent long stretches of my childhood with family in Brazil, and recently relocated to San Francisco. As a performer, I live primarily in musical theater and opera, and occasionally, commercial and film.
Education
I graduated with Master's in Voice Performance at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in May 2023. While at SFCM, I was Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito directed by James Darrah and Raviv Ullman, Marmee in the musical Little Women, as well as the Shepherdess, Country Lass, and Widower Bat in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges.
In 2021, I graduated with a Bachelor of Music from James Madison University, where I sang Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Pamina, and the title role in Iolanthe. While at JMU, I also produced, directed, and starred in Domitila, a Brazilian chamber opera by João Guilherme Ripper (and this remains the most challenging and rewarding project I've had to date!)
My performance career has been enriched by some other wonderful, rewarding rabbit holes. In 2019, I attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz to study Lieder with the Hillcrest Scholarship from the James Madison University Honors College and in 2021, I was a Fulbright Semi-Finalist for the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Award in Budapest.
At JMU, I also studied Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication, which I have applied as a reading and writing educator, technical writer, and Portuguese-English translator.
When not performing or teaching, you'll find me around town or in my studio apartment trying to keep up with too many hobbies (there are just too many wonderful things to do in this life!). It's possible to find me dancing, cooking, skating, biking, strolling, yoga-ing, reading, painting, knitting, cooking some more, and trying, very, very hard to become fluent in German, and occasionally, doing all these things at once.
