Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Monika began modeling internationally in high school until she realized she likes food and smiling. Improvising since she was a teenager, she has toured with The Second City, and has been on house teams at UCB, The Second City and Nerdist. Monika has toured internationally doing improv and sketch, most recently in China where she directed shows and performed her solo improv show. You can catch her weekly show at UCB, The Teacher's Lounge, and at a number of indie comedy theatres in LA where she performs the only one woman improv show in Los Angeles.
Recurring on Blunt Talk, was a series regular on Who Gets The Last Laugh?, and can be seen on Newsreaders, Newsroom, The Joe Schmo Show, Two And a Half Men, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Disaster Date Series Regular, Players, and in sketches on The Tonight Show, Conan, and Arsenio. Monika has written for shows on TBS, MTV, Funny Or Die, and wrote and starred in the Yahoo series Holly On Top. She can also been seen in some commercials, some Funny or Die videos, and more than a two handfuls of unseen network pilots.