Velina Hasu Houston is a nationally recognized and award winning author of plays, screenplays, poetry, critical essays, and drama anthologies. Her signature play Tea, which chronicles the lives of Japanese "war brides"-women who married U.S. military personnel after WWII and moved to the United States-has been produced internationally. Other plays include Necessities, Kokoro, As Sometimes in a Dead Man's Face, Asa Ga Kimashita, and others. She is currently the head of the playwriting program at the University of Southern California.

Literary rights are owned by Velina Hasu Houston. Her permission is necessary in order to photocopy any of her plays and for the publication of lengthy quotations.

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