August 16 + 17, Doors open 7:00PM, 7:30PM performance Woodbox Theatre, 3rd Floor
Directed by Kerri Lynn Kratz
Assisted by Aria Grace Kratz
Cast:
Dijae Bradley Crouch
Jared Crouch
Jacob Kaiser
Taylor Tedesco
Amanda Hooks
Justin Garrow
Patricia Crowe
Peter Mark Raphael Aria Grace Kratz
About the Laramie Project
The Laramie Project (2000) is an American play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project. The play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members’ own journal entries, and published news reports. It depicts a community’s response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming.
The murder brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed in October 2009, and signed into law by President Barack Obama. Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.”