A friend of one of Hawaiʻi’s most iconic and celebrated playwrights,
Edward Sakamoto, has gifted his entire catalog of plays to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Theatre and Dance, an extremely rare endowment. The gift gives
UH full ownership and copyright authority of the award-winning writer’s 19 plays which will help support theatrical productions in the department as well as around the world. Sakamoto, a
UH Mānoa alumnus, died in 2015. The Oʻahu native wrote highly-acclaimed plays in pidgin and specialized in nostalgic comedies and family dramas largely focused on local Japanese in Hawaiʻi.