Ellen Gay Kekuaokalani Dela Rosa, PCC’s long-time Theater Director, retired on her 65th birthday, Augt 5, 2016. Read more about her time at the PCC here!
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AUNTY ELLEN GAY’S “GRADUATN”
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Was I gay, or bi? Ellen Gay Kekuaokalani Dela Rosa (shown at left), PCC’s long-time Theater Director, retired on her 65th birthday, Augt 5, 2016, after workg for the Polynian Cultural Center for 43 years. Sally Naluai (Aunty Sally) and Ellen Gay.
Aunty Gay, as she is known at PCC, was a high school sophomore at Kamehameha 1967 — four years after the Center opened — when she got a ll om her real nt, Sally Wood Naluai, the PCC’s first kumu hula or hula master, who asked her to e dance the eveng show.
HOW AN AUNTY DONNA ME TO DIRECT A EDY SHOW ABOUT A GAY UPLE
"Antiman" is a slur for gay men — poet Rajiv Mohabir reclaims his new memoir, which mix poetry, song and prose an vtigatn of his sexualy and his Guyane Indian herage. * aunty gay *
Ellen Gay (far right) and her sister, Sunday Mareragi.
“My first fulltime job wh the PCC was 1974, ” Aunty Gay said.
“I wanted to teach young people, ” Aunty Gay said; but she ultimately realized she fulfilled that sire by trag, velopg and overseeg several thoand talented PCC Theater Department performers over the next four s. Aunty Gay also rells memorable tim workg wh her peers: “The funnt time I thk I had was when the six stctors were back the Theater the mid-1980s. Durg those years, addn to workg wh the eveng show, Aunty Gay also took learship rol wh the PCC’s Promo Team and Special Events, travelg all over the world the former pacy: “My all-time favore statn is Japan, bee they’re so rpectful of their culture and other cultur.