Evangeline Monroy

Evangeline Monroy is a filmmaker, producer, writer, and multi-hyphenate performer born on Naval Station Treasure Island, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She started performing at 4 years old studying ballet, tap, and playing piano by ear. Evangeline began acting in plays in the first grade, moving onto writing and directing her own plays in middle school, then started making short films in high school until college, as well as studying dance and performing hula and hip hop. After graduating from UCLA School of Theater on a Veterans Affairs scholarship, she spent two decades producing Academy Award winning VFX and Animated blockbuster movies for Digital Domain, Centropolis FX, and Sony Pictures. Following the massive layoffs at Sony in 2014, she returned to UCLA School of Theater, Film & TV to pursue her passion for original storytelling and writing for television. In 2016 she started performing stand up and musical comedy around LA as a featured comic for Rebels of Comedy, Yellow Fever's Super Off Broadway, and various shows at The Comedy Store, The "C" Word, Martin Harris Comedy Night, Best of Deez Nutz, and BITCH Comedy.

Evangeline is an avid surfer and snowboarder, as well as an activist for environmental education. She has served on the Speaker's Bureau at Heal the Bay, and promotes climate change action in collaboration with art & music nonprofit organizations like Reverb and Kokua Foundation. She's honored to come from multiple generations of awarded Navy and Army Veterans in her family. Her father's determination to immigrate from the Philippines to be of service to the U.S. Navy as a musician to escape third world poverty is why she is dedicated to giving back through art and culture.