Carla Pinza (b. 1942) is a Puerto Rican dancer and actress.
She appeared in The Believers (with Martin Sheen), the fictitious Charlie Parker biopic, Sweet Love, Bitter, the ABC after school special Santiago’s Ark (with Reuben Figueroa), and roles on Sesame Street, The Equalizer, Guiding Light, and Law & Order.
She also served as the lead dancer for the Butlerloff Dance Company at the age of fourteen, and was invited by Truman Capote to play a role in a revival of his musical House of Flowers (where she wrote the dialogue for her character).
She went on to feature in several Broadway shows, originating the role of Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (with Raúl Juliá). Pinza also wrote the stage play Shakespeare Give Us a Clue, wrote a screenplay called Bring Back the Clowns, and penned the three book series Ziggy’s Mundo. Founder of Luminous Visions Inc, she’s also a journalist, talk show host, producer, and director.
In the late 1970s, Carla ran a reading series at New Federal Theatre as the Latinos Playwrights Reading Workshop.
| Credit Type | Production | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Actor | Twenty Year Friends | 1983-84 Season |