By Moisés Kaufman
and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project

Directed by Jade Ansell

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Rehearsal dates:

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 9 pm

Starting at the First UU Church of Milford

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Performance dates:

Friday, June 6 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, June 7 at 2 pm & 7:30 pm

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IPA is seeking one male-presenting actor to join our cast of The Laramie Project. Rehearsals begin Monday, March 31, and will run weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays. Due to the director's schedule, we request that you please email a video submission to us at infinityperforming@gmail.com with your full name and "The Laramie Project" in the subject line. Sides and our audition form can be downloaded under the summary below.

 

Please record yourself performing both monologues; these do not need to be memorized, as we want to see your best and most comfortable self! Audition forms can be filled out using any online PDF filler.

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In October 1998, in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was tied to a fence post, severely beaten, robbed, tortured, and left alone to die. His body - battered, bloody, and barely clinging to life - was discovered eighteen hours later. He was rushed to the hospital and put on life support. He died five days later. The reason for this brutal crime? Matthew Shepard was gay.

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The hate crime attracted vast attention worldwide, bringing sexual discrimination and violence to the forefront of public discourse. The Tectonic Theater Project, led by their founder, Moisés Kaufman, traveled to Laramie in the aftermath of the murder with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with horrible, hate-fueled violence. Over the course of a year and a half, the group interviewed over 200 subjects, some directly related to the case and some regular citizens of Laramie. The Laramie Project was born from these interviews, journal entries, and found texts. Hailed as one of the most captivating and encompassing pieces of contemporary theatre, the play shocks, challenges, and moves all who watch it as it reveals the lowest depths of hatred and most incredible heights of compassion that lie within all human beings in any seemingly average community.​