Eliza Ventura

Eliza Ventura is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of CAP21. She is an actor and producer. Off Broadway and Regional absolute favorite acting credits include: opposite Rosemary Prinz in KILLING LOUISE, directed by Michael Montel (CAP21), Tom Riis Farrell in LAUGHING WILD (Capital Rep Co.), Robert Lupone in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Martin LaPlatney in AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND and Sam Coppola in Jerry Mayer’s ASPIRIN AND ELEPHANTS (American Stage Co.), Mark LaMura in MALICE AFORETHOUGHT (Boston’s Chiswick Theatre) opposite Oni Faida Lampley in POLICE BOYS (Playwrights Horizons), EVE IS INNOCENT by Leonard Melfi (The Writers and Directors Theatre), UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS (Circle Repertory Co.), Samm-Art Williams’ BRASS BIRDS DON’T SING, (Manhattan Theatre Club), ANDROMACHE opposite Joanne Camp (The Pearl Theatre), Michael Weller’s FISHING (The Westbeth Theatre Center), CLYTEMNESTRA opposite Joanna Merlin (Cubiculo), opposite Don Silva in DOMINO COURTS AND COMANCHE CAFE (Westside Mainstage Theatre) and in Steven Sater’s ASYLUM directed by Adam Davidson (Naked Angels). In TV: she played principal roles in: NEW YORK NEWS opposite Gregory Harrison, LAW AND ORDER with Richard Brooks, and in AS THE WORLD TURNS, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, and THE GUIDING LIGHT opposite John Glover, Marisa Tomei, Margaret Colin, and Anna Horsford. She was a series regular on the improvisational NEW CANDID CAMERA. In Film: Tallulah Bankhead in Francis Ford Coppola’s THE COTTON CLUB, and co-starred opposite Anne Pitoniak in the feature PRODIGAL CHILD, Executive Produced by Milos Foreman’s Columbia Project.