About Roger

I met Roger in 1987 through a mutual friend. We soon started dating and were together for 3 years. Roger was handsome, and had a sharp, and sometimes acerbic, wit. He was an aspiring playwright, and he introduced me to the downtown theater scene. We saw a lot of Off Off Broadway shows at places like PS 122, Dixon Place, La Mama, Theater for the New City, and Wow Cafe.  We went to see live music at local venues like the Gas Station, Webster Hall, the Pyramid Club and even the 6BC Garden. The East Village in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a relatively inexpensive place, and we could go out to eat a good meal at the Indian Restaurants on East 6th St. and the Ukrainian and Polish restaurants in the East Village. Yafa Cafe, Cafe Mogador, Sidewalk Cafe, 7A and Life Cafe were also popular places for us to go for brunch. After we broke up, we still enjoyed going to theater and concerts, although there were gaps where we didn't see much of each other.  In more recent years, we would  occasionally meet up at the Boiler Room or the Phoenix Bar, some of Roger's favorite haunts. The past 2 years, Roger often came to my house to cat sit while I was traveling. He enjoyed getting out of his studio apartment and coming to my place to enjoy the backyard garden. He was an avid gardener, and a longtime member of the garden at 6 and B. He sometimes brought me seeds to plant. I'm glad I have some perennials in my garden to remember him by. I had read a couple of Roger's works when he was alive and seen his play "Pressures of the Flesh" which was really good, but it was only after he passed in February, 2025 that I found out he had written a number of other pieces. I'm glad to be involved in helping to preserve and share his writing with this website. 

Steve Herrick