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Velina Hasu Houston

Internationally acclaimed playwright Velina Hasu Houston has written over thirty plays including sixteen commissions in a career that began Off-Broadway with her play Tea at Manhattan Theatre Club and American Dreams at Negro Ensemble Company.

Her plays have been produced at important theatres around the globe including Manhattan Theatre Club, Old Globe Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Smithsonian Institution, Whole Theatre (Olympia Dukakis, producer), NHK (Japan nationwide), Pasadena Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Los Angeles Opera, Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices, Silk Road Theatre Project, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Playwrights’ Arena, and others including in the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and Malaysia.

The recipient of many honors, Houston also writes opera, television, and film and is a published poet and essayist.

Her current projects include three commissions, one of them multi-national