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[Letter from A'Lelia Bundles to Sterling Houston - December 29, 1990]
Letter from A'Lelia Bundles to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. It appears there was a woman, A'Lelia Walker, who inspired Mr. Houston to write a stage play. Ms. Bundles writes to praise Houston on the play and inform him of other news in theatre.
Date:
December 29, 1990
Creator:
Bundles, A'Lelia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Arturo Madrid to Sterling Houston - September 27, 1995]
Letter from Arturo Madrid of Trinity University to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to invite him to a reception and dinner for Judith F. Baca, an artist-in-residence at the university, at Magnolia Gardens Restaurant. He asks that he please RSVP as soon as possible.
Date:
September 27, 1995
Creator:
Madrid, Arturo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Aubrey to Sterling Houston - January 23, 1996]
Letter from Aubrey to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes thanking him for participating in an exhibition titled Emerging from the Shadows: One City's Perspective on Homelessness. She includes two responses from attendees, who write positively about the show and share personal stories.
Date:
January 23, 1996
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Boyd Vance to Jump-Start Performance Company - April 6, 1998]
Letter from Boyd Vance, artistic director of Pro Arts Collective, to Jump-Start Performance Company. He writes to express his excitement for an upcoming collaboration. He also expresses concern for promotion and publicity.
Date:
April 6, 1998
Creator:
Vance, Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Boyd Vance to Jump-Start Performance Company - April 9, 1998]
Letter from Boyd Vance, artistic director of Pro Arts Collective, to Jump-Start Performance Company. He writes to express his excitement for an upcoming collaboration. He also expresses concern for promotion and publicity. In this photocopied version, Mr. Vance has included a check he wrote to the company for three-hundred dollars as well as a fax cover sheet.
Date:
April 9, 1998
Creator:
Vance, Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Bruce Morrow to Sterling Houston - June 27, 1995]
Letter from Bruce Morrow, associate director of the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to thank him for sending his story, Moan Your Mourners, but has declined to include it in an anthology of short stories he is editing.
Date:
June 1995
Creator:
Morrow, Bruce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Bruce Tyler to Sterling Houston - March 1, 1994]
Letter from Bruce Tyler of the Social Security Administration to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. The letter was sent to notify Sterling of a phone interview to review and update his social security benefits. A request form is included as a second page.
Date:
March 1, 1994
Creator:
Tyler, Bruce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dan Laurence to Sterling Houston - September 7th, 1996]
Typed letter from Dan Laurence to Sterling Houston. He writes thanking him for a recent note and pointing to an enclosed reading - which was not provided. Letter was written on Laurence's letterhead.
Date:
September 7, 1996
Creator:
Laurence, Dan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dianne Monroe to Sterling Houston - September 1, 1995]
Letter from Dianne Monroe to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to congratulate him on a recent play, On the Pulse of the Morning. She shares recent updates in her life, including a book she co-wrote titled Scattered Children, and hopes that the two can get together again. A second letter written by Sterling is included along with an envelope, but it goes unmentioned in Dianne's letter.
Date:
September 1, 1995
Creator:
Monroe, Dianne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dr. Charles A. Taylor to Sterling Houston - August 28, 1995]
Letter from Dr. Charles A. Taylor, president of St. Philip's College, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He informs him that he would be pleased to host a reception to one of Houston's adaptations - On the Pulse of the Morning by the world-renowned poet Maya Angelou - before the production goes up. However, he is unable to provide additional funds to underwrite the event.
Date:
August 28, 1995
Creator:
Taylor, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - July 10, 1990]
Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the San Antonio Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. He writes informing him of his candidacy for an Individual Artist Grant. The rest of the letter details what is to come and how the decision will be made in the upcoming weeks.
Date:
July 10, 1990
Creator:
Diaz, Eduardo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - July 23, 1990]
Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs in San Antonio, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. Mr. Diaz writes to inform Mr. Houston that he is one of eleven other local artists to receive a grant and that confirmation of his grant will take place in the upcoming months.
Date:
July 23, 1990
Creator:
Diaz, Eduardo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - May 14, 1999]
Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. His department has benefited from a one hundred thousand dollar allocation by the Community Revitalization Action Group. The funds were given with the intention of supporting art and cultural programs in neighborhoods, and the letter asks of Sterling to participate in a meeting to decide on guidelines for funding and selecting projects.
Date:
May 14, 1999
Creator:
Diaz, Eduardo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - November 8, 1995]
Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is writing on behalf of Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright, so that he may be awarded a fellowship with the Center. Diaz notes that Houston has been instrumental in establishing alternative theater and wholeheartedly recommends him to their program.
Date:
November 8, 1995
Creator:
Diaz, Eduardo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Frank R. Aqueno to Sterling Houston - October 15, 1992]
Letter from Frank R. Aqueno to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to invite Houston to his provocative one-man performance piece titled Queer Pier. He encloses a xeroxed newspaper clipping from The Advocate about his play. A third clipping shows a portrait of the writer wearing sunglasses, shorts, and an American flag bandana in front of a chain-link fence.
Date:
October 15, 1992
Creator:
Aqueno, Frank R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Frederick to Sterling Houston - August 16, 1998]
Letter from Frederick to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes about his chemotherapy and upcoming school schedule. He hopes to begin a clinical internship in the future.
Date:
August 16, 1998
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Henry B. Gonzalez to Sterling Houston - April 22, 1991]
Letter from Henry B. Gonzalez, member of the House of Representatives, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. Houston wrote to Gonzalez in a prior correspondence about Out of a Time of Plague, one of his stage plays, fearing censorship. Mr. Gonzalez promises to continue to support funding for the National Endowment of the Arts and artistic expression.
Date:
April 22, 1991
Creator:
Gonzalez, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Glines to Sterling Houston - June 15, 1999]
Letter from John Glines of The Glines, a non-profit organization for gay arts, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes thanking him for showing an interest in The Glines, but that they are not looking for new material to produce.
Date:
June 15, 1999
Creator:
Glines, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Minton to Sterling Houston - 1999]
Letter from John and Amy Lisabeth Minton to Sterling Houston. They thank him for his friendship and monetary contribution to the Firelight Players organization.
Date:
1999
Creator:
Minton, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joyce Lambrecht - June 1995]
Letter from Joyce Lambrecht, special projects chairman of the Alamo Theater Arts Council. She writes to invite photograph submissions by local theater groups for the 1995 Globe Awards, an event celebrating achievements by San Antonio theaters. She would also like presenters and asks for volunteers.
Date:
June 1995
Creator:
Lambrecht, Joyce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Judith Zaffirini to Sterling Houston - May 24, 1993]
Letter from Judith Zaffirini, state senator from Texas, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes back as a response to a letter by Houston, noting that she, like Sterling, fully supports funding for the arts. This includes funds for the Texas Commission on the Arts and the SB 778 bill, which she co-sponsored with twenty-seven other members.
Date:
May 24, 1993
Creator:
Zaffirini, Judith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Kate Martin to Sterling Houston - August 6, 1992]
Letter from Kate Martin, project management specialist of the Cultural Arts Board, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to inform Mr. Houston that he has been selected to receive a three thousand dollar grant.
Date:
August 6, 1992
Creator:
Martin, Kate
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Kate Martin to Sterling Houston - August 6, 1992]
Letter from Kate Martin, project management specialist from the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She sends word of Houston's approval for an award of three thousand dollars. Selected by the Cultural Arts Board, the award notice has been sent to the City Council for final approval. It is the final approval that Houston awaits.
Date:
August 6, 1992
Creator:
Martin, Kate
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Kitty Felde to Sterling Houston - June 9, 1999]
Letter from Kitty Felde to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes from Los Angeles to send word of her most recent play, Erdemovic. It tells the story of a young man who forcibly murdered during the fall of a United Nations post in the former Yugoslavia. She includes a copy of her resume and a synopsis of Erdemovic.
Date:
June 9, 1999
Creator:
Felde, Kitty
System:
The Portal to Texas History