Reflections on the Laramie Project by Nora Matthews, Director

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists’ Play Service, Inc.

*** Tickets are not required but there will be a free will offering after each performance ***

“In October 1998 a twenty-one-year old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming.  His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.  Moíses Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard.  They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town.  Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case and others were citizens of Laramie.  THE LARAMIE PROJECT chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder.  Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences.  THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.”

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Cast & Crew

Ted Andrzejczuk - Stephen Belber, Doc O’Connor, Phil LaBrie, Father Roger Schmit, Detective Sgt. Rob DeBree, Aaron Kriefels, Harry Woods

René Andrzejczuk - STAGE MANAGER

Diane Ellis - Rebecca Hilliker, Baptist Minister’s Wife, Waitress, Mormon Spiritual Advisor, Newsperson in Act 2 “Essential Facts” and “Homecoming”, Barbara Pitts

Gordon Ellis - Matt Galloway, Anonymous Friend of Aaron McKinney, Bill McKinney, Fred Phelps, Murdock Cooper, Rulon Stacey, Jon Peacock

Lynn A. Grenier - Reporter in Act 1 “A Definition”, Marge Murray, Trish, Steger, Shadow, Sherry Johnson, Foreperson, Gov. Geringer, Sherry Aenonson

Nora Matthews - DIRECTOR

Sue Meisner - Narrator, Newsperson 4 in Act 2 “ Gem City of the Plains,” Jeffrey Lockwood

Mike Boucher - Greg Pierotti, Sgt. Hing, Jedadiah Shultz, Baptist Minister, Kerry Drake, Cal Rerucha, Newsperson 2 in Act 2 “ Gem City of the Plains”, Judge

Jolene Miceli - Amanda Gronich, Eileen/Gil Engen, Alison Mears, Email Writer, Tiffany Edwards, Dr. Cantway, Kristin Price, Shannon, Conrad Miller, Catherine Connolly

Tony Massarelli - MoÍses Kaufman, Stephen Mead Johnson, Andrew Gomez, Aaron McKinney, Jonas Slonaker

Bonnie Plourde - April Silva, Leigh Fondakowski, Zubaida Ula, Reggie Fluty, Jen, Newsperson 1 in Act 2 “ Gem City of the Plains,” Baliff, Lucy Thompson, Romaine Patterson

Ken Sullivan - Andy Paris, Dennis Shephard, Doug Laws, Matt Mickelson, Russell Henderson, Philip DuBois

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