Shoji Hidaka & Velina Hasu Houston at research exchange, Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku, Tokyo, June 2015
Shoji Hidaka, Yoshiko Yamaguchi (both of Kanagawa Daigaku), Mariko Hori Tanaka (Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku) with Velina Hasu Houston, Tokyo, June 2015
Shoji Hidaka & Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Tokyo, June 2015
TEA, WITH MUSIC Photos by Michael Lamont
"Cinnamon Girl," Book & Lyrics by Houston, Composer Nathan Wang; photos by Blake Boyd
"Cinnamon Girl"
"Cinnamon Girl"
"Cinnamon Girl"
"Cinnamon Girl"
"Like the Flow of A River" - Cast and Crew, April 2015, Playwrights' Arena, Los Angeles Theatre Center
THE AMERICAN WOMEN, The Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse, January 2015: Director Seema Sueko, volunteer production intern for Houston Samantha Emmer-Fink, Houston, actor Jeffrey Johnson; actresses Marshel Adams, Lorene Chesley, Deidre Henry, Fanshen Cox, and Karianne Flaathen
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Hollywood; Los Angeles artists at Playwrights' Arena's "Hot Night in the City" Gala 2015
"Jonah and the Whale," Los Angeles Opera
Actors and director from Playwrights' Arena's "Golden Tongues" festival at UCLA Clark, Los Angeles 2013
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, "Tea," 2007. Photo by Corky Lee.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, "Tea," 2007. Photo by Corky Lee.
"Kokoro (True Heart)," New York
Barber shop workers, Tokyo, 1950, including Chiyoko Denham.
The playwright with "Tea" cast of CSULA, 2010
The playwright with the Jabawockeez, the hip-hop dance crew that won "America's Best Dance Crew" in 2008.
The playwright with actor, director, and producer Tina Chen in New York. Ms. Chen directed Houston's "Kokoro," "Tea," and "Alabama Rain," all in New York.
The playwright on Santa Monica Beach as part of a literacy campaign (holding "Bulfinch's Mythology").
The playwright with playwright Migdalia Cruz, Toronto, 2008
With Sidney Poitier
The playwright and family with Ikumi and Hiroshi Yanagisawa; Kyoto, Japan, June 2009
Velina Hasu Houston's mother and cousin
Velina Hasu Houston's parents
Velina Hasu Houston's parents
Velina Hasu Houston's mother
Velina Hasu Houston's mother and sister
Velina Hasu Houston with her mother
With Iwao Yamamoto
All photographs used by permission of The Velina Avisa Hasu Houston Family Trust. For permissions please contact via email at greenteagirlorangepekoecountry@gmail.com.
