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Velina Hasu Houston
Velina Hasu Houston’s literary career began Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club, expanding globally, including over 41 commissions and numerous honors. In opera, she has nine commissions, which include LA Opera and Hawai’i Opera Theatre. Her play Tea was designated a theater canon classic by Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, and HERO Theatre, Los Angeles.
Honored by several organizations such as the Kennedy Center, Japan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, her archives are at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; San Marino, California.
At the University of Southern California, she founded graduate playwriting and co-founded Asian American cultural studies in the early 1990s, and she is a presidentially appointed USC Distinguished Professor of Theatre and USC Resident Playwright. She is affiliated faculty with East Asian Studies and American Studies & Ethnicity; and associated faculty with the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions & Culture. A Fulbright scholar, she served on the State Department’s Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.
She’s taught and been a guest artist/scholar at universities nationwide and in Japan. She is on the board of trustees for Berklee College, Boston; an associated artist with Writers’ Odyssey, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles; an associated artist of New Circle Theatre Company, New York; a member of The Writers Group, New York; and a member of the advisory councils for HERO Theatre’s and Directors Lab West.
VelinaHasuHouston.com
Representation
Agent: Jack Tantleff, Paradigm Talent Agency
Entertainment Attorney: Michael C. Donaldson, Esq.; Donaldson Callif Perez
Photo by Monique Yamaguchi
Honored by several organizations such as the Kennedy Center, Japan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, her archives are at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; San Marino, California.
At the University of Southern California, she founded graduate playwriting and co-founded Asian American cultural studies in the early 1990s, and she is a presidentially appointed USC Distinguished Professor of Theatre and USC Resident Playwright. She is affiliated faculty with East Asian Studies and American Studies & Ethnicity; and associated faculty with the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions & Culture. A Fulbright scholar, she served on the State Department’s Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.
She’s taught and been a guest artist/scholar at universities nationwide and in Japan. She is on the board of trustees for Berklee College, Boston; an associated artist with Writers’ Odyssey, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles; an associated artist of New Circle Theatre Company, New York; a member of The Writers Group, New York; and a member of the advisory councils for HERO Theatre’s and Directors Lab West.
VelinaHasuHouston.com
Representation
Agent: Jack Tantleff, Paradigm Talent Agency
Entertainment Attorney: Michael C. Donaldson, Esq.; Donaldson Callif Perez
Photo by Monique Yamaguchi