Roxy Ventola; Television Scriptwriter, AIDS Activist

Roxy Ventola, 47, a television scriptwriter who chronicled her family’s struggle with AIDS. Mrs. Ventola wrote the Lifetime television movie “And Then There Was One,” describing the period leading to the deaths of her husband, Vincent Ventola, and infant daughter, Miranda Rose, of complications of AIDS. She also wrote “After the Bomb,” a play about a post-AIDS world, which was presented this year at the Open Fist Theatre in Hollywood. Her other plays included “AIDS Us: Women” and “Silent No More.” A strong activist in the AIDS fight, she served as president of the board of Women at Risk and was a co-founder of Women Being Alive. She had earned a local Emmy for her KCET documentary titled “Art Therapy.” On Nov. 14 in Los Angeles of complications of AIDS.