A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye, Diana Tanaka

Tea - Acting Edition

Literature & Fiction

Velina Hasu Houston

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

THE STORY: Yasako, a young Japanese mother, struggles to adapt to the very foreign culture of the United States. Feeling hopeless after discovering her husband's infidelity, Yasako feels that oyako shinju, or parent-child suicide, is her onl

Kokoro (True Heart) - Acting Edition

In this pathbreaking volume, Velina Hasu Houston gathers together eleven plays that speak in "hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent - and often dissent." These writers resist the bigotry that targets them solely as people of color as well as the homogenizing tendencies of a multiculturalism that fails to recognize the varied make-up of Asian American experience while demonstrating the different styles and thematic concerns of individual playwrights.

But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise: New Asian American Plays

Temple University Press

Most writing books are how-to manuals for writing a play or story. Playwright Velina Hasu Houston's new book avoids instruction and instead mentors via writing exercises designed to jump-start the imagination. No matter what your creative writing genre, if you fully invest yourself in these writing exercises, chances are they will either lead you to something that carries your current work to its next phase or take you to entirely new places, providing you with unexpected, fresh material. Writers, teachers, and actors can benefit from this new book from a twenty-year mentor of playwrights. It can help you wake up your muses, enrich your sensory apparatus, spark a new point of departure for a character or idea, and-clear the deadwood and make room for flights of fancy!

"Writer's Block" Busters 101 Exercises to Clear the Deadwood and Make Room for Flights of Fancy

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Smith & Kraus

LIVING AND WRITING ON AMERICA S LEFT COAST: Contemporary Women's Plays is an anthology of diverse and brilliant cutting-edge drama that fills a significant need to hear the voices of women as interpreters of the human experience in the US and beyond. Selected by nomination, the works are penned by five critically acclaimed playwrights as well as an emerging playwright whose vision and literary fortitude prove that theatre thrives on the Western edge of the United States of America. The collection is introduced in a panoptic foreword by Jon Klein, playwright and head of the Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting program at Catholic University, Washington DC. As Nicholas Kristof, co-author with Sheryl Wudunn of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they re the solution. This new collection offers views into the varied lives of women characters as they navigate a world in which women are still only one percent of the world's landowners.

Living and Writing on America's Left Coast: Contemporary Women's Plays

Marianne McDonald

Paula Cizmar

Laura Shamas

Naomi Iizuka

Stephanie Swirsky

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