Velina Hasu Houston
Professor of Theater
Director of Playwriting Program, USC School of Dramatic Arts
Resident playwright
Associate, Gender Studies Program
Contact at: (213) 740-1292 or greentea@usc.edu
Expertise:
- multiethnic identity and interracial
relationships
- Asian-American feminist dramatic literature
- Japanese studies
- playwriting
- screenwriting
- cinema and race
- Author of The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women
(1993); But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise: New Asian American Plays (1997);
Artistic and Discursive Voices of Multiethnic Asians (1997); and many
internationally produced plays, as well as screenplays, poetry and
critical essays
- Inaugural recipient of Remy Martin New Vision Award from Sidney Poitier and the American Film Institute for recognition of literary accomplishment and work that "contributes to the culture of our society and our world"
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