The art of collective story telling.
by Keely Kwok
The Laramie Project is not for the faint of heart. The play tells the story of the aftermath in Laramie, Wyoming after the brutal beating and tragic death of twenty-one year old Matthew Shepard. He was Gay.
A theatre company known as the Tectonic Theatre Project, based in New York City and helmed by award-winning playwright Moisés Kaufman, traveled to Laramie a month after Matthew’s death in 1998 to interview the residents. From their mouths to our ears, those interviews resulted in The Laramie Project.
