The Laramie Project

In October 1998 Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beated, tortured and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From those interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the brutal hate crime that shocked the nation. Through these interviews we hear the voices of middle America and are left with a complex look at humanity.

For the first time in history, our director chose to add a physical non-speaking Matthew in this production. Part memory, part spirt- Matthew is present onstage for the entire production.

Creative Team

Written by Moises Kaufman > The Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Natalie Villamonte Zito
Lighting > Set Design by Jak Prince
Costume > Sound Design by Natalie Villamonte Zito
Production Stage Management (Off-Off Broadway) by Gary Flowers
Production Stage Management (Capital Fringe) by Amelia Lembeck
Assistant Stage Management (Capital Fringe) by Daphne Liu > Steven Ali
Photography by Stephen Shadrach