Draft:Brooke deRosa

Brooke deRosa is an American composer, conductor, vocalist and filmmaker.

DeRosa was born in New York, and graduated from Washington and Lee University with a double major in music and theater, with an emphasis on vocal performance .

Her first opera, “The Monkey’s Paw” premiered in 2017 in Los Angeles with Pacific Opera Project. .

In 2018 she orchestrated and conducted Rossini’s opera “La Gazzetta” for Pacific Opera Project. The production included her re-creation of the opera's “missing quintet."

Her 2019 operetta “Gunfight at the Not-So-OK Saloon”, a musical comedy set in the old Wild West, premiered in the Hollywood Fringe Festival. “Gunfight” garnered three awards: “Pick of the Fringe”, “The Encore Producer’s Award” and “The John Raitt Award for Best Music and Lyrics.”

Her opera "Alice in Wonderland" premiered in April of 2024 at The Ebell of Los Angeles.

DeRosa has conducted on TV’s “Scandal”, the scores for “Luke Cage” ,“Queens”, “Run This Town”, “Maggie Simpson’s Playdate With Destiny”, and albums for Amazon Music, Linear Labs, and Snoop Dogg.