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Lisa
Matsumoto held a B.A. in Drama and Theatre and an M.F.A. in Youth
Theatre with an emphasis in playwriting from the University of
Hawai'i at Manoa. She was the creator and playwright of the award-winning
Once Upon One Time trilogy which includes: Once Upon
One Time, Once Upon One Noddah Time and Happily
Eva Afta. Additional works include: Das How Come, The
Princess and the Iso Peanut, On Dragonfly Wings (which was selected as one of four musicals for the 12th Annual ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles in 2007) and
‘Ohi‘a Productions' Educational Road Shows. She also wrote and
co-directed The Wizard of Oz: Local Style a local concert
adaptation of the popular story for The Honolulu Symphony.
Lisa
received Po'okela awards for: leading actress for her role
as Da Wicked Queen in Once Upon One Time, original script
for Happily Eva Afta, Das How Come, and The Princess
and the Iso Peanut, and a special adjudicator's award "for
her outstanding contribution to O'ahu's theatres". She also received
the Elliot Cades Award for Literature 2000 which goes to "a proven
writer who has published a significant body of work of exceptional
quality". Her plays have been voted Hawai'i's favorite locally
written plays and her work has merited feature stories in Midweek,
Malamalama, Honolulu Weekly, Honolulu Magazine, Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
and The Honolulu Advertiser.
Lisa
was also the author of How the B-52 Cockroach Learned to Fly
(1996 Ka Pala Pala Po'okela award for Excellence in Children's
Books), Wailana the Waterbug (2000 Ka Pala Pala Po'okela
award for Excellence in Children's Books) and local bestsellers
Beyond 'Ohi'a Valley: Adventures in a Hawaiian Rainforest,
The Adventures of Gary and Harry: A Tale of Two Turtles and The Christmas Gift of Aloha.
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Michael
Furuya is a graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco
with a B.F.A. in Illustration. Michael's credits include: brochure
covers for First Hawaiian Bank, an illustrated cover of GTE Hawaiian
Tel's 1990 Phone Book Series; illustrations in various publication
including Honolulu, Aloha, HMSA's Island Scene,
and Hawai'i Investor Magazine; illustrations for Western
Publishing; illustrations for the book, America's Children; illustrations
for Meredith Corporation's Christmas books; a illustrated cover
for a Hawai'i Opera Theatre program; and illustrations for Hawai'i
Nature Center and Ala Moana Shopping Center children's activity
books.
He
is the illustrator for the award winning children's books How
the B-52 Cockroach Learned to Fly and Wailana the Waterbug,
and local bestseller Beyond 'Ohi'a Valley: Adventures in a
Hawaiian Rainforest, The Adventures of Gary and Harry:
A Tale of Two Turtles and The Christmas Gift of Aloha. His theatre credits include: Puppet
Designer/Constructor, Puppeteer, Scenic Painter, Set Designer/Constructor,
Costume Designer/Constructor and Technical Director.
Michael
received a Po'okela award for his costume designs for Happily
Eva Afta. Michael has designed sets and costumes for the educational
road shows, Fun with Fables, I Wish…Wishing Tales from
Around the World, Legends of the Pacific, Voices
of the Rainforest, In the Clear Blue Sea, Under
the Hawaiian Sky, Beneath the Ocean Blue and Wings
of the Islands, as well as many of Kipapa Elementary Performing
Arts Program productions, including Winnie the Pooh and
Deep in a Hawaiian Rainforest. Puppet credits include Little
Shop of Horrors and On Dragonfly Wings.
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