Pic of Michael at Hawaii Pacific University

Here is another pic of Michael this time from Hawaii Pacific University. I copied it from a pdf file (URL below) where he's on page 13.

web1.hpu.edu/images/UniquelyHPU/HPUToday/HPU_TodaySum07_LR_wbleed_a18624.pdf



Yay for me! I finally figured out how to post pictures here!!

Here's the text:

Hawai‘i Pacific University had a brush with Hollywood this spring
when members of the cast of the ABC series “Lost” performed at
a benefit for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY).
On March 4, Matthew Fox (Jack), Michael Emerson (Ben),
Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Elizabeth Mitchell
(Juliet), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), and Terry O’Quinn (Locke)
performed a staged reading of scenes from HTY’s 2007-08
season. It included two pieces written by HPU’s John Kearns,
Ph.D., associate vice president for academic programs.

At the March 4 “Lost” benefit, longtime HTY powerhouse BullDog
performed Kearns’ monologue Hanuchriskwanzobon, about
a boy who invents a holiday for a friend who doesn’t celebrate
Christmas. The highlight of the evening came when “Lost” actors
stepped on stage to read the opening scene of Maui vs. Hercules,
another play HTY has commissioned from Kearns, premiering
this fall. Michael Emerson (creepy Ben, leader of the “Others”)
played Maui, who fished the island of Lo‘ihi out of the ocean so
he can escape from all future hula lessons. Matthew Fox (heroic
but troubled doctor Jack Shephard) played Hercules, fresh from
a shipwreck and hoping he can escape to the apparently deserted
island and never have to recite poetry again. And that’s when
Maui meets Hercules with explosive and comic results, since
neither one is willing to leave. Emerson brought the house down
when he revealed a natural talent for dialects: Maui
speaks Pidgin, and with some coaching from HTY
actor BullDog, so did Emerson.

After the show,
Kearns had an opportunity to visit with the cast.
HTY artistic director Eric Johnson was thrilled
by the results. “We’re fortunate that new board
member Annie Wood, former artistic director
at London’s prominent Polka Theatre and actor
Cusick’s wife, thought an event like this would
be possible. Putting these accomplished actors
together with John Kearns’ characters is just great
fun. John’s plays and monologues have helped
make theater relevant to young people in Hawai‘i,
and HTY has benefited from John’s success.”