Steve Monarque

Steve Monarque is an American actor, writer and director based in New York and Los Angeles. He grew up in the suburban New Jersey community of Pompton Lakes. Steve is best known as regular cast member "Johnny Ventura" from the syndicated series "Friday the 13th". The series (known in Europe and Canada under the title "Friday's Curse") has a loyal cult following and remains a favorite for many horror TV fans worldwide. Steve has appeared in well-known films including No Small Affair and Sixteen Candles. He starred in two award-winning TV movies, "ABC Afterschool Specials: Stoned", co-starring with Scott Baio, and "CBS Schoolbreak Special: The Day the Senior Class Got Married", co-starring with Paul Dooley. He also starred in the late-eighties romantic comedy film Under the Boardwalk, as tough guy surfer "Reef Yorpin". In 1985, he was the lead in a special MTV video for the popular song "25 or 6 to 4", by the rock band Chicago. After landing a role in the Chris Carter movie Fencewalker, he appeared on "Close to Home", "ER" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".

Founder of MonaVision Films, Steve wrote and directed the award-winning made-for-TV movie Simpler Times, starring comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in their last onscreen appearance together. Simpler Times is distributed and programmed by ShortsTV International. Other writing/directing credits include "Jersey Life", "SuperSam" and "Free Country" (Best Short, NYC Int'l Film Festival). His play Free Country won the 2009 Strawberry One Act Festival at the Riant Theatre, NYC and was subsequently published in the anthology "The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival: Volume Six". His play with original music, "Get A Life", is in development in NYC. Films in development include the feature length fantasy Clown Bound, sci-fi thrillers The Guardian Man and Stagg Road, and family films The Western Flyer and Let Go.