Ângela Rocha attended the General Arts professional course at Escola Artística António Arroio. She has a diploma in Theatre, in the course of Set Design, from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and was awarded a scholarship from the Leonardo Da Vinci Program, in Rome at the Matéria Viva Company.
She was an assistant scenographer and costume designer at Artistas Unidos theatre company.
She signed scenography and costume design works for directors such as Cláudia Gaiolas, Guilherme Gomes, Gonçalo Waddington, João Pedro Mamede, Madalena Marques, Maria João Luís, Raquel Castro, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Silvio Vieira, Teresa Coutinho, Tiago Guedes, Tiago Rodrigues, among others.

She was present in several national and international festivals, namely at the Festival D’Avignon, with the play “António e Cleópatra” by Tiago Rodrigues. She is co-founder of Condomínio – Festival of local culture in housing spaces, in a total of 8 editions. In 2019 she won the SPA award for Best Scenography for the show “Sweet Home Europa”, a production of Teatro D. Maria II. She was Portugal’s official representative at the Prague Quadrennial 2023 – PQ23, one of the largest international exhibitions of the performing arts. She was awarded the PQ Kids Prize.

In her work she seeks to deepen a sincere relationship between the plastic potential intrinsic to the materials, their repetition and the path of invocation more than a realistic aspect. Keeping always in mind the dialogue permeable to the individual place of the public. She is also characterized by the construction of many of his conceptions, which allows her a place of permanent learning of means and forms.