Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

The Laramie Project

By Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project

Creative team:

Directed by Kate Gleason (She/Her/Hers) and Rodney Lizcano (He/They/El)

Lynne Collins, Artistic Director (She/Her)

Tina Anderson - Scenic Design (She/Her)

Nicole Watts - Costume Design (She/Her)

Jon Olson - Lighting Design (He/Him)

Max Silverman - Sound Design (He/Him)

Garrett Thompson - Projection Design (He/Him)

Christine Moore - Production Stage Manager (She/Her)

Melissa J. Michelson - Assistant Stage Manager (She/Her)

Sylvia Gregory, CSA - Casting (She/Her)

Photos by Amanda Tipton- Photographer

September 29 - November 5, 2023

When gay college student Matthew Shepard was found brutalized and tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, his death made people across the country take a hard look within. Twenty-three years after its World Premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Laramie Project still resonates today. As America continues to grapple with hate crimes, we dive deep into a very human story of the prejudice, hatred, conflicts and contradictions revealed by Matthew’s death.

Patchworked together from hundreds of interviews, The Laramie Project explores the reactions of sixty real-life characters at the epicenter of one of the country’s most heinous anti-gay crimes, examining the depth of human hatred and the heights of compassion and love.

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