Angelica Generosa is from South River, New Jersey. She studied on scholarship at the School of American Ballet and Princeton Ballet, and she attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, Chautauqua Summer Program, and New Jersey Ballet. She also studied with Gina Forcella in Sayreville, New Jersey. In 2011, Ms. Generosa joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice. She was promoted to corps de ballet in 2012, soloist in 2016 and principal in 2020 

Ms. Generosa was the recipient of the Youth American Grand Prix Regional Hope Award in 2005, and she was a YAGP New York finalist in 2007. She also was the recipient of the School of American Ballet Mae Wien Award for Outstanding Promise. 

Ms. Generosa has performed as a guest artist with the Vail International Dance Festival, American Academy Ballet, and the Chautauqua Alumni Dance Festival. Some of the leading roles she has performed in her career include the principal role in George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Princess Aurora in Ronald Hyde’s The Sleeping Beauty, William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Tarantella by George Balanchine, Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker and Justin Peck’s Year of the Rabbit.