UALR is honoring one of its own with a memorial celebration of the life of Warren E. Law, who spent nearly three decades designing lights for UALR productions big and small.

The service will be held at at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, in the Haislip Theatre at UALR.

Law was born on Feb. 2, 1950 in Little Rock and passed away unexpectedly at his home on Dec. 1, 2014. He was the face of theatrical lighting design in Central Arkansas for most of his life.

At the time of his death, he was the lighting designer for Robinson Auditorium and the Little Rock School District.

Law graduated from Central High School in 1968 and joined the Navy, serving aboard the USS Enterprise in the Tonkin Gulf for 18 months during the Vietnam War. Always proud of his military service, he taught his theatre production students to “clean a dance floor like you clean the deck of a ship.”

He received his B.A. degree in accounting from UALR and joined the UALR Department of Theatre and Dance in 1973.

For the next 28 years, he designed and hung the lights for nearly every show, big or small, that was produced in the UALR theatre. He served as the technical director for Artspree, taught classes in lighting design, and lit countless dance recitals and other shows.

He used students as his crew for all of these jobs, providing them with invaluable field training and giving many of them their only source of income. Many grew to have national careers in theatrical production.

Law became the lighting designer for Ballet Arkansas in the late 1980s lighting “The Nutcracker,” among other productions, every year. He worked with the UALR Trojan Pep Band, Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, and the Arkansas Arts Center over the years, as well.