Updated at 10:54 a.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Celebration set Monday for UH theater prof Roger Long
Advertiser Staff
A "celebration of life" for Roger Long, longtime director, actor and theater professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at Kennedy Theatre on campus.Long died April 30, at age 68, after a long illness. He was the former associate dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of Asian Theatre at the UH.
An eminent and innovative member of the theater community, Long had a lifelong passion for Indonesian wayang kulit, the Javanese shadow puppetry art form, and produced rarely performed Indonesian and Balinese dramas at Kennedy Theatre and earned Po'okela Awards for his direction of American dramas, including "Wit" and "Angels in America, Part I," at the Manoa Valley Theatre.
Friends will share their memories of Long — the joyous, the irreverent, the creative and occasionally the serious.
