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
PLAYWRIGHTS' ARENA 2014
PLAYWRIGHTS' ARENA 2014
PLAYWRIGHTS' ARENA 2014
CINNAMON GIRL, PLAYWRIGHTS' ARENA 2014, Photos by Blake Boyd
"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, 2014
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.
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
The playwright and family with Ikumi and Hiroshi Yanagisawa; Kyoto, Japan, June 2009
The playwright's parents, Lemo Houston and Setsuko Takechi, 1952, Tokyo, Japan.
The playwright's parents, Kamakura 1955
Setsuko Takechi, the playwright's mother; Matsuyama, Japan, 1947
The playwright, her mother, and sister. Kansas.
All photographs used by permission of The Velina Avisa Hasu Houston Family Trust. For permissions please contact via email at greenteagirlorangepekoecountry@gmail.com.