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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 ...
The Keller school district’s decision to cancel “The Laramie Project,” a play that looks at reactions to the 1998 murder of a gay college student has led to nationwide criticism.
Keller Timber Creek students who spent months preparing to perform “The Laramie Project” got welcome news when the superintendent reversed a decision to cancel the performance. Parents from ...
People in the entertainment industry expressed outrage and responded in various ways to the attack, and Ellen DeGeneres spoke at Shepard's memorial services in Washington, D.C. [2] Three narrative films were made about the Shepard story: The Laramie Project (2000, based on the play of the same name), The Matthew Shepard Story (2002), and ...
Young actors and families had to acknowledge the disturbing subject matter portrayed in the play about Matthew Shepard before they could participate.
The group came into the national spotlight in 1998, when it was featured on CNN for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Laramie, Wyoming, who was beaten to death by two men allegedly because of his homosexuality. [1] WBC later picketed productions of The Laramie Project, a play based on Shepard's murder.
Actors associated with Strawshop have won Genius Awards as Individual Artists in Theatre including Gabriel Baron (2005), and Amy Thone (2007). Composer/designer John Osebold—who designed The Laramie Project at Strawshop—was the Stranger Theatre Genius in 2012. The award is given to only one person or individual in each category every year.
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