Velina+Hasu+Housto

= = =Velina Hasu Houston =

Velina Hasu Houston, born Velina Avisa Hasu Houston, (on May 5, 1957) is an award winning American playwright, essayist, poet, author, editor, and screenwriter. She has had many works produced, presented, and published, with some drawing from her experience of being multiracial, as well as from the immigrant experiences of her family and those she encountered growing up in Junction City, Kansas. Her work in general focuses on the shifting boundaries of identity with regard to gender, culture, and ethnicity, often embracing a transnational view of identity based upon her own Japanese and American background. Her works' themes also have extended beyond these issues to explore stories related to women in society. She is best known for one of her most popular plays Tea which portrays the lives of Japanese war brides who move to the United States with their American servicemen husbands. Her plays are widely studied in the US, Asia, and Europe in high schools and in colleges and universities. She is the only American playwright to amass a body of work that explores the transnational US-Japan relationship through various stories that include a bilateral, global view of identity and belonging. The former Honorable Consul General of Japan of Los Angeles Kazuo Kodama paralleled Houston’s work in drama to the work of Isamu Noguchi in fine art, both being offspring of one Japanese parent and one American parent.  Houston is an internationally acclaimed playwright of over twenty plays as well as a published poet and essayist, and screenwriter. She has published two anthologies of Asian American drama, one of them being the first anthology of plays by Asian American women. Houston's body of work focuses on transnational themes that explore the shifting boundaries of identity, particularly with regard to immigrants, women, and persons of the Asian, African, or Latin Diasporas. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velina_Hasu_Houston) = = ==

=Plays Written By: Velina Houston =

American Dreams Asa Ga Kimashita(Morning Has Broken) Calling Aphrodite Christmas Cake Confusion of Tongues, The Eyes of Bone Father, I Must Have Rice House of Chaos, The Kokoro(True Heart) Last Resort, The Morning Has Broken My Life Is A Loaded Gun <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Necessities <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Shedding The Tiger <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tea <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Thirst

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http://theatre.usc.edu/faculty/houston.html [] [] []

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