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Oct 12, 2023 · 25 years ago, in the tight-knit town of Laramie, Wyoming, a young gay man named Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, chained to a fence, and left to die in a homophobic hate crime.
The Laramie Project is a 2000 American play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project (specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, writer-director; Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins) about the reaction to the 1998 ...
Feb 25, 2020 · The Laramie Project, drawn from 200 interviews conducted by Artistic Director Moisés Kaufman and members of his Tectonic Theater Project in the year following Shepard’s murder, is now routinely studied in schools as a method for teaching prejudice and tolerance.
The Tectonic Theater Project, led by their founder Moisés Kaufman, traveled to Laramie in the aftermath of the murder with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with horrible, hate-fueled violence.
Stephen Belber is a member of the Tectonic Theater Project and one of the interviewers for The Laramie Project. Stephen’s interviewees include the workers at the Fireside Bar and the limousine driver Doc O’Connor.
Denise Hingle (Alison Mears, Romaine Patterson, Stephen Belber, Narrator) is “totally stoked” to be playing Romaine Patterson, with whose activism she feels a strong kinship.
Sep 6, 2023 · The Laramie Project: Then & Now. (l-r) James Asher, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, and Amanda Gronich in the opening moments of The Laramie Project. As we examine the legacy of Matthew Shepard, it is clear that The Laramie Project has played a vital role in educating communities about Matt’s story, while affording people an opportunity to ...
