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ECCT Brings 'The Laramie Project' to Stage Marking 25th...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the horrific 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a then 21-year-old college student in Laramie, Wyoming. The loss of Matthew and the impact of his death was felt by many, especially so in the LGBTQIA+ community, which birthed “The Laramie Project”. Shepard s. ....

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Interview: Greg Pierotti: THE LARAMIE PROJECT Co-Creator Directs Timely Revival, Talks Commemoration of Matthew Shepard's Passing

In this interview, we have the privilege of evoking Greg Pierotti's insights. He is a University of Arizona Theatre professor, a distinguished artist, and the co-author of THE LARAMIE PROJECT, which he now directs at the university. The script evolved from his work with Moisés Kaufman and the renowned Tectonic Theater Project in New York City. The company is best known for developing new plays using 'Moment Work,' a trademarked playwriting method that employs rigorous research and collaboration in a laboratory environment. The process is a significant part of Pierotti's work, which resides at the intersection of theater and anthropology. ....

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BSC Youth Theatre presents 'The Laramie Project' — a play 'still relevant today'


Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming, was robbed and beaten in the parking lot of a Laramie, Wyo., bar. His two anti-gay assailants then took him to a remote spot outside town where he was stripped naked, tied to a wooden fence, tortured and left to die. Shepard was found by two mountain bikers who delivered him to a hospital in Fort Collins, Colo., where he died six days later. Two men, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, were convicted of murder — Henderson also was convicted of kidnapping — and sentenced to life in prison.
Shepard’s murder rocked the nation and prompted calls for extending hate crime laws to cover violence based on an individual’s sexual orientation. And, indeed, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act — aka Hate Crimes Act of 2009 — bears Shepard’s name and the name of another hate crime victim, a Black man who was murdered by a group of Texas wh ....

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