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VELINA HASU HOUSTON (1957 - ) |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Harden-Curtis Associates |
Since her work first appeared Off-Broadway when she was 22, Velina Hasu Houston, Ph.D., has been recognized as a Japan Foundation Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow (twice), Sidney F. Brody Fellow, and James Zumberge Fellow (thrice); been honored by Sidney Poitier and the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, and received thirteen commissions. "Tea" and Houston's other plays have been produced internationally throughout the U.S and Asia including at Manhattan Theatre Club, Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Smithsonian Institution, Whole Theatre (Olympia Dukakis, producer), NHK (Japan, nationwide), Negro Ensemble Company, Syracuse Stage, and others. She is Professor of Theatre, resident playwright, and creator and Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing program at the University of Southern California School of Theatre. Professional memberships include Writers Guild of America, west; Dramatists Guild. Her works are archived in The Velina Hasu Houston Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Three new plays will premiere this fall: "The Peculiar and Sudden Nearness of the Moon" at Sacramento Theatre Company, "Calling Aphrodite" at International City Theatre (Long Beach, CA) and "The House of Chaos" at Asian American Repertory Theatre (San Diego, CA). Her research includes plays, films, books, and poetry that investigates identity and belonging vis-à-vis culture, ethnicity, and gender; particularly in a transnational context with regard to Japanese immigrants in the U.S. and the Japanese and African diasporas. She founded the Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing program at the University of Southern California School of Theatre (Los Angeles) and its predecessor, the MFA in Playwriting Program in 1990. Professional memberships include Writers Guild of America, west; Dramatists Guild, and Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. Her works are archived in The Velina Hasu Houston Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Plays by Velina Hasu Houston
Albatross | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Globe | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106142 | |||
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American Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | Negro Ensemble Company, Off-Broadway, New York | 1984 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56181 | |||
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Synopsis: | An African American soldier brings his Japanese bride home after World War II to meet his family in New York only to discover that the American Dream is not all that it is purported to be. | |||||
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As Sometimes In A Dead Man's Face | ||
| 1st Produced: | East West Players, LA | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51247 | |||
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Asa Ga Kimashita (Morning Has Broken) | ||
| 1st Produced: | East West Players, Los Angeles, California | 1984 | ||||
Company: | East West Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | Temple University Press, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51244 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1946 Japan, a Japanese woman falls in love with an African American-Native American Indian soldier and in so doing challenges her father's ability to come to grips with Japan's loss in the war. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Broken English | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51246 | |||
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Calling Aphrodite | ||
| 1st Produced: | Scene Dock | 2003 | ||||
Company: | International City Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56182 | |||
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Synopsis: | Keiko Kimura, a Hiroshima bomb victim - one of the young women of the legendary Hiroshima Maidens Project - travels to New York for reconstructive surgery and meets the lead surgeon, Dr. Everett, whose brother was killed by the Japanese during the war. With both having volunteered for the project for very different reasons, their challenging association forces them to redefine post-war peace on very personal terms as they attempt to restore their faith in humanity. | |||||
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Christmas Cake | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kuma Kahua | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106143 | |||
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Confusion Of Tongues, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Augustine's By-The-Sea | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106144 | |||
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Cultivated Lives | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106145 | |||
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Synopsis: | The end of World War II brought more than an uneasy peace to Japan; for Misao Itamura, it ignited an inner struggle. With the help of a mysterious maid, this young heiress embarks upon a journey of renewal and discovery. Rebelling against suffocation by her domineering father, she becomes entangled with love, murder, the border between sexualities, and , ultimately, the search for the true meaning of a cultivated life. | |||||
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Eyes Of Bone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106146 | |||
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Synopsis: | A single defining moment sets an extraordinary woman on an unexpected search for true vision. This mystical new work focuses on a gifted surgeon who is forced to confront her identity as a healer. | |||||
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Father, I Must Have Rice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106147 | |||
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House Of Chaos, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Asian American Repertory Theatre, San Diego, California | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Asian American Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56183 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A native Japanese woman's fortune, legacy, and well-being are caught in a web of deceit and adultery that lead her to take unusual measures to save her honor. Inspired by Euripides' "Medea." | |||||
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Hula Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Honolulu, Hawaii | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Honolulu Theatre for Youth | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Eight Plays for Children, University of Texas press - available fromSamuel French, NY | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17271 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | This book provides the full texts of plays produced through The New Generation Play Project a consortium that included The Seattle Children's Theatre, The Children's Theatre Co. of Minneapolis, Louisville Children's Theatre and The Honolulu Theatre for Youth in 1989. | |||||
Synopsis: | A young boy moves from Hawaii to suburban California only to find that his love for the sacred rites of hula don't transfer quite as easily. As he struggles to preserve his old culture while still making a place for himself in his new life, the essence of what is truly important in life becomes clear to him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ikebana (Living Flowers) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | The Pasadena Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56184 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in 1957 Tokyo, the play focuses on Ayame Itamura, a reclusive heiress who devotes herself to her father, the esteemed Dr. Itamura. As he sets out to arrange a marriage for her, Ayame realizes that it is not her interests her father has at heart, but his own when Hanako, a beautiful and mysterious mixed-race stranger, arrives to work as their maid and disturbs the order of Ayame's life, an order as carefully constructed as the ikebana she loves to arrange. | |||||
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Kapi'Olani's Faith | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kumu Kahua | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111308 | |||
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Kokoro (True Heart) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Japan Society, New York | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Theatre of Yugen/Japan Society | |||||
| 1st Published: | University of Illinois Press, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40432 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | The tragic loss of her daughter in a failed parent-child suicide attempt leaves a Japanese mother on trial for murder and grappling with the hardest challenge of all--not to die, but to live. | |||||
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Last Resort, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Usc | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111309 | |||
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Synopsis: | The impact of tourism threatens the charm of a Hawaiian resort town and the serenity of the locals. Hostilities regarding land and love intensify, shaking everyone's ideals to the core, and revealing the fragility of ambitions and dreams. A staged reading directed by Claudia Weill. | |||||
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Legend Of Bobbi Chicago, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Taper | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106148 | |||
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Lotus Of The Sublime Pond, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jewish Women's Theatre Project, Hudson Theatre, Hollywood, California | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Jewish Women's Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56185 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A feisty provincial maiden is chosen by the Emperor as his consort. Although the empire can't change her, the mayhem that ensues when she is taken to the imperial capital results in her changing the empire. | |||||
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Matsuyama Mirror, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Honolulu, Hawaii | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Honolulu Theatre For Youth | |||||
| 1st Published: | University of Texas Press, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56186 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | When her menses begins in the wake of her mother's death, a young girl tries to cope with change amid grief; and fight the desire not to grow up | |||||
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Morning Has Broken | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106149 | |||
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My Life Is A Loaded Gun | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106150 | |||
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Necessities | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Old Globe Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51245 | |||
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Synopsis: | A hard-edged, aging film executive decides to adopt a baby as a means for bringing meaning to her empty life. But as the babies become just more commodities to enhance her life, she begins to discover that the true necessities of life cannot be bought, leased, or acquired. | |||||
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Peculiar And Sudden Nearness Of The Moon, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sacramento Theatre Company, Sacramento, California | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Sacramento Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56187 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | When a white woman and her white husband give birth to a black baby, the woman is catapulted onto a journey to re-discover who she is and to come to grips with one of the deepest mysteries of life | |||||
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Petals and Thorns | ||
| 1st Produced: | UCLA | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106151 | |||
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Shedding The Tiger | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sacramento Theatre Company, Sacramento, California | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Sacramento Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56188 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Japan's high-flying bubble economy collapses, Minako Sakurai, a woman of breeding who has defined her entire life by her father's legacy, is forced to confront a daunting but compelling stranger--herself. Like the parable of the fox who dons the costume of the tiger to intimidate other animals as it passes through the forest, Minako finds her costume being pulled away by the prickly branches of economic reality and the challenges they bring to bear upon her marriage and relationships, leaving Minako exposed for all the world to see. Through adversity, Minako discovers her humanity. Set in Kyoto in 1998. | |||||
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Tea | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40431 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | L. A. Theatre Works. Audio Cassette 1983 | |||||
Synopsis: | Four women come together to clean the house of a fifth after her tragic suicide upsets the balance of life in their small Japanese immigrant community in the middle of the Kansas heartland. The spirit of the dead woman returns as a ghostly ringmaster to force the women to come to terms with the disquieting tension of their lives and find common ground so that she can escape from the limbo between life and death, and move on to the next world in peace-and indeed carve a pathway for their future passage. Set in Junction City, Kansas, 1968; and netherworlds. | |||||
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Thirst | ||
| 1st Produced: | Asian American Theatre Company, San Francisco, California | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Asian American Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56189 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | After the death of their mother, two sisters and their mixed-race half sister struggle with their grief and finally confront the dissonance that has kept them from being a real family. | |||||
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Tokyo Valentine | ||
| 1st Produced: | East West Players, LA | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106152 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Waiting For Tadashi | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | George Street Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | Alexander Street Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56190 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Tadashi Lane turns 50 and his long-term relationship disintegrates, he sets out on an odyssey to find the adoptive Japanese mother from whom he has been estranged for 20 years. As his history as a World War II orphan in Tokyo and as an immigrant struggling to acculturate in the U.S. interweave with his present-day odyssey, Tadashi's search for his mother ultimately becomes a desperate attempt to find and define himself. Set in Japan, Kansas, and California. 1945-Present. | |||||
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