performed the THE LARAMIE PROJECT, at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center, and The Union Square Theater in NY. He is the head writer of THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE. He and his collaborators received the Will Glickman Award for best New American play. He performed the play at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Perseverance Theater, and The Guthrie. As a writer/actor he has developed and/or performed original and classical work at Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, The Magic, The Atlantic Theatre Com- pany, The Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah, New York Theatre Workshop, and the NYTW summer writer’s lab at Dartmouth. Most recently, he is collaborating on Laramie + 10, a new epilogue of THE LARAMIE PROJECT which revisits the town ten years later. Greg has taught theater and Tectonic Theater Project’s moment work at high schools and colleges around the country and in Naropa University’s MFA program in contemporary performance. Andy Paris has made a career of developing new works for the stage and screen, including THE LARAMIE PROJECT (EMMY Nomination), GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE, by Moises Kaufman, Lucie Tiberghien’s THE QUIET ROOM, and INNOCENTS, by Rachel Dickstein. As a writer/director Andy created THE FANMAKER’S INQUISI- TION, adapted from the novel by Rikki Ducornet. He also developed GOLDSTAR OHIO, by Michael Tisdale, directing the stage version at The Cleveland Public Theatre, and the short film starring Bill Irwin, Alison Pill, Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Emerson. Currently he is writing THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, an Epilogue to THE LARAME PROJECT. For The Women’s Project he wrote THE CORPORATE CARNIVAL, which was presented in the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center. Andy was invited to participate in The Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2008. As an actor he has performed in countless plays in New York, Regionally, and in Europe. Regionally, he has been seen at Playmaker’s Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Theatre Virginia, Berkeley Rep and La Jolla Playhouse. His upcoming acting work includes OR, by Liz Duffy Adams, which will be coming to The Women’s Project in November. He has also been the recipient of two AUDIE Awards for his audiobook narra- tions. As an original member of Tectonic Theatre Project, Andy has worked under the mentorship of Mr. Kaufman, and now teaches the techniques which he and Tectonic developed over the past seventeen years. He has taught workshops at New York University, DePaul University, Naropa Institute and in Osaka, Japan, among others. Andy was invited to be a participant in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2008. Andy grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a graduate of NYU. Stephen Belber’s plays include GEOMTERY OF FIRE (Rattlestick), FAULT LINES (Naked Angels/Cherry Lane), A SMALL, MELODRAMATIC STORY (LAByrinth Theater Company), MCREELE (Roundabout), MATCH (Broadway, Tony nomination for Frank Langella), Tape (Naked Angels--NYC/LA/London) and THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Associate Writer). As a screenwriter, he wrote TAPE, directed by Richard Linklater (Sundance; Berlin); THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Associate Writer) for HBO Films (Sundance, Emmy nomination for screenwriting); and DRIFTING ELEGANT, directed by Amy Glazer. He recently wrote and directed his first feature, MANAGEMENT, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. He is currently developing screenplays based on MCREELE (for Will Smith’s Overbrook production company), and MATCH. TV credits include RESCUE ME and LAW & ORDER SVU (staff writer). He has received commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theater, Arena Stage and Philadelphia Theater Company. Jimmy Maize (Dramaturg) is an award-winning playwright, director, and actor who has been a member of Tectonic Theater Project since 2003. His interview-based play IN ONE ROOM was the recipient of the first annual Bailiwick playwriting award, the David Nord Award, and has been performed nationally. He assistant directed 33 VARIATIONS with Jane Fonda on Broadway, and most recently BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGDAD ZOO (Center Theatre Group). Other directing credits include LUCKY PINK WONDERLAND (People’s Improv Theatre); QUANTUM LOVE STORY, SONGS FOR THE PAC-MAN (Bureau Theater) and writing/directing credits include MAKING TIME and IN THE BELLY (Bureau Theater). He is a graduate of Whitman College, Artistic Director of the New York-based Bureau Theater, and a current MFA directing candidate at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is also proud to be the Literary Manager and an Artistic Associate at Tectonic Theater Project. The International Community Convocation of The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later, is made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and the support of these Partners:

Grand Performances, Los Angeles, California Fullerton College, Fullerton, California Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California UA Presents, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska Reston Community Center, Reston, Virginia Choregus Productions LLC, Tulsa, Oklahoma Miami University Performing Arts Series, Oxford, Ohio Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico Celebrity Series of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts Hope Theatre Company, Salford, United Kingdom The Baptist Temple @ Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Jesuit High School, Portland, Oregon Cal Poly Arts, San Luis Obispo, California Kansas City Repertory, Kansas City, Missouri Acknowledgments Special thanks to: Arch Thomas, Natalie Dollison, Ted Sprague, and Adam Mendelson for providing production assistance. Also thanks to the UW Student Union for the use of the stools for tonight’s production. PANEL MEMBERS (CONT.) Keith Reynolds Dale Stadler Student, Spectrum President and Newcomer to Laramie Chief of Police, City of Laramie

Dave O’Malley John Dorst Former and Retired Chief of Police, City of Laramie Professor, American Studies Commander and Lead Investigator for Matthew Shepard Jonas Slonaker Cathy Connolly Community member and character in the original THE Wyoming State Senator and Associate Professor, Women’s LARAMIE PROJECT Studies Tectonic Theater Project TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT (Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director, Greg Reiner, Executive Director, Jeffrey LaHoste, Managing Director, Dominick Balletta, General Manager) is an award-winning company whose plays have been performed around the world. Since 1992, TTP has produced innovative works that explore theatrical language and form, fostering an artistic dialogue with our audiences on the social, political and human issues of the day. The company has developed and produced works for theater and film, including: 33 Variations (nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Play), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; The The Cast Laramie Project (one of the most produced plays in the country, as well as an HBO movie written and directed by Kaufman); and I Am My Own Wife (2004 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for best play). Chaz Gilmore Ryan Archibald John O’Hagan Stephanie (Hanson) Long Tectonic has garnered numerous awards including the Humanitas Prize, the Obie, the Lucille Lortel Award, The Outer Critics Circle Linday Cozzens Tamara Lehner Award, the GLAAD Media Award, the Artistic Integrity Award from the Human Rights Campaign, and the Making a Difference Lindsay L’air Beamish Leigh Selting* Award from the Matthew Shepard Foundation. The film of THE LARAMIE PROJECT was also honored with four Emmy Nomi- Peter Parolin *Member, Actor’s Equity Association nations, The National Board of Review Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie and a Golden Bear Award from the Berlin Film Festival. In addition to creating theatrical works, TTP works in residence at universities around the country and hosts a New Cast members will be reading multiple roles in this production. York-based training lab for theater artists. This production is directed by Leigh Selting*. As a non-profit laboratory, we are grateful for the long-term support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greenwall Foun- dation, The Arcus Foundation, The Small Change Foundation, The Educational Foundation of America, Shawn Donnelley, Jeanne The Facts Sullivan, and Jeanne Donovan-Fisher. For more information on the company, visit www.tectonictheaterproject.org. Moisés Kaufman is a Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and award-winning playwright. His plays GROSS INDECENCY: On October 6, 1998, a gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, left the Fireside Bar with Aaron McKinney and THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE and THE LARAMIE PROJECT have been among the most performed plays in Russell Henderson. The following day he was discovered at the edge of town. He was tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close America over the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also directed the Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play I AM MY OWN WIFE, earning to death. him an Obie award for his direction as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations. Other recent By the following day, Matthew’s attack and the town of Laramie had become the focus of an international news story. On credits include: 33 VARIATIONS (La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage); MACBETH with Liev Schreiber (Public Theater); LADY WIN- October 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. DERMERE’S FAN (Williamstown Theater Festival); THIS IS HOW IT GOES (Donmar Warehouse); ONE ARM by Tennessee Williams (Steppenwolf Theater Company); and MASTER CLASS with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theater). As a writer/ di- Five weeks later, the members of Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the rector: GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Joe town. Over the course of the next year, they wrote the play THE LARAMIE PROJECT edited from those interviews. Callaway Award, GLAAD Media Award); THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk noms, GLAAD Media Award). Mr. Kaufman also directed the film adaptation of THE LARAMIE PROJECT for HBO, which was the opening night selection at Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie in June 2008 to try to observe what, if any, were the long- lasting effects of such a the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won the National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize, and a Special Mention for Best crime. The result is THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER: AN EPILOGUE, which is being read tonight, Oc- First Film at the Berlin Film Festival. The film also earned Mr. Kaufman two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best tober, 12, 2009, here in Laramie and in 150 other venues nationally and internationally. The production is a reminder that Writer. He is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Matthew Shepard’s story still reverberates. Leigh Fondakowski was the Head Writer of THE LARAMIE PROJECT and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since During this production, a 10-minute intermission will occur between acts. 1995. She is an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of THE LARAMIE PROJECT for HBO. Her latest work, THE PEOPLE’S TEMPLE, has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theater, American A 5-minute pause will occur immediately before the panel discussion. Theater Company and The Guthrie Theater, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005. Another original play, I THINK I LIKE GIRLS, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate. Other directing credits include: GERDA’S LIEUTENANT by Ellen Greeves and Bennett Panel Discussion Participants Singer (Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts) 3 SECONDS IN THE KEY by Deb Margolin (San Francisco Playhouse), THE MODERATORS PANEL MEMBERS LARAMIE PROJECT (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theater), LA VOIX HUMAINE by Jean Coc- Brandon Gellis Jeff Lockwood teau (Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh). Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights and is developing a play about 19th century actress Charlotte Cushman with About Face Theatre and Tectonic Theater Project. She is Supervisor, Institutional Publications Professor, Natural Sciences & Humanities, Philosophy an adjunct faculty member in the Masters in Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University.

Cici Aragon Kate Welsh Greg Pierotti was associate writer of THE LARAMIE PROJECT, for which he and his collaborators received a NY Drama Desk Assistant Professor, Theatre & Dance and Chicano Studies Chair of the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice & Associ- Award nomination and a Lucille Lortel nomination. They later adapted the play to the small screen for HBO. For the adaptation, ate Professor, Education he and his collaborators received an Emmy nomination for best writing of a film and were nominated for a GLAAD award. He