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AUDITIONS! The Laramie Project
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Directed by Janet Haley, Associate Professor of Theatre
a poetic docu-drama with image and music created from interviews with the Laramie, Wyoming community reflecting on the murder of one of its residents - a young gay man named Matthew Shepard
“THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.”- Dramatists Play Service
Produced in partnership with UM-Flint’s Center for Gender and Sexuality
Roles open for 8-25 UM-Flint students – No acting experience required.
All UM-Flint students are welcome – all majors/minors, identities, ages, abilities.
This production requires a diverse company of humans to tell the story.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 14 – all arrive at 7:00 for check-in and announcements, then we proceed to auditions; end time is 9:00p.
WHERE: Meet in UM-Flint Theatre Lobby (next to French Hall, corner of Kearsley St and Wallenberg St)
WHAT TO PREPARE: No prepared material is required; we will provide you script selections at the audition. If you would like to share a monologue, song, poem/rap, etc. you are welcome to do so.
If you play an instrument confidently, please feel free to play something for us!
Register today at: https://go.umflint.edu/laramieprojectauditions
PRODUCTION INFO: Preliminary conceptual meetings and rehearsals begin the week of January 21. Rehearsals are scheduled in accordance with the company’s availability. This production will perform on the UM-Flint Mainstage April 17, 18, 19. Excerpts from the production will tour to local high schools in late April thru May; only a select few company members will be needed for the high school experiences.
QUESTIONS?
Would you like access to a perusal copy of the script?
Please contact director Janet Haley by email: jehaley@umich.edu
ABOUT THE PLAY
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. – Dramatists Play Service
ABOUT MATTHEW SHEPARD
“Matthew Shepard: The murder that changed America”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45968606
Matthew Shepard Foundation
https://www.matthewshepard.org/about-us/our-story/