Rosa Lee is a performance artist and instructor who has been involved with a variety of theatre arts projects over the past twelve years. She created her first one-woman show during the fall of 2004 and has since performed in front of thousands of hearing and Deaf onlookers all over the country to rave reviews. Rosa Lee incorporates all aspects of her artistic talents and her experiences as a Deaf woman from a Deaf family into her shows, which include music, video, and performance art.


Rosa Lee began her artistic career in 1993 in the prominent "Pah Side Story" (an adaptation of "West Side Story"). In 1997, she co-founded the performance arts group "Dangerous Signs" in Rochester, NY, hosted NTID's talk show "Chatting About..." and was a dancer for the touring company Deafywood. She narrated "Love Thy Neighbor," directed by Shanny Mow, and also directed the Northwest Theatre for the Deaf's play "Death of Silence" in Portland, Oregon.

Rosa Lee prominently appears on various DVDs, CD-ROMs, and VHS tapes. She is a featured poet on "ASL Poetry: Selected Works of Clayton Valli", a narrator in DeafHope's, "Till Domestic Violence Do Us Apart", ASL Rose's "Have You Ever Seen an ASL Handshape DVD/Book?", "Do? TELL! Kids Against Child Abuse" and a language model for "American Sign Language Video Dictionary and Inflection Guide CD-ROM".

As a teacher and instructor, Rosa Lee has guided students in the art movement and drama at the Indiana School for the Deaf, for Pah! Deaf Youth Theater Camp, and The Magical Literacy Camp. She also worked as a skit coordinator for the Youth Leadership Retreat 2005 in Peacable Kingdom, Texas.

Currently, she lives in New England with her two cats and her partner in crime.