Writer, director, native New Yorker, current Co-Chair DGA Eastern Diversity Steering Committee, Venosta began his career in the theater and dance world, appearing with the Joffrey Ballet, Maurice Bejart’s Ballet du XXe Siècle, the Puerto Rican Dance Theater, and the Louis Falco Dance Company which led to his role as a principal dancer in Alan Parker’s ‘Fame”. A proud alumni of Míriam Colón’s Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Playwrights Unit, he’s written screenplays for all the major Hollywood studios including ‘The Last Dragon’ and ‘Bird on a Wire’ starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. Venosta’s film directing debut, ‘The Coriolis Effect’ premiered at Sundance before winning the Silver Lion for best short at the Venice Film Festival in 1994; his television directing debut came in 2017 on Grey’s Anatomy, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’. Venosta splits time living/working in New York City and Jalisco, Mexico.