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The Laramie Project Stephen Belber’s plays have been produced on Broadway and in over 25 countries. They include Match, Tape, Don’t Go Gentle, Dusk Rings a THE LARAMIE PROJECT Bell, McReele, Finally, Geometry of Fire, Fault Lines, Carol Mulroney, A Small, Melodramatic Story, One Million Butterflies, The Power of Duff and The Muscles In by Moisés Kaufman Our Toes. Theaters where he has been produced include Roundabout, Atlantic, MCC, Primary Stages, Naked Angels, Labyrinth, Rattlestick, The Huntington and and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project The Geffen. He was an Associate Writer on The Laramie Project, and co-writer on The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Movies include Tape (directed by HEAD WRITER Richard Linklater), The Laramie Project(Associate Writer), Drifting Elegant, Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, and Match, starring Patrick Leigh Fondakowski Stewart, the last two of which he also directed. Television credits include Rescue Me, Law & Order SVU, and pilots for F/X, Amazon, The History Channel, FTVS and ASSOCIATE WRITERS HBO. Upcoming films include O.G., starring Jeffrey Wright. Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Stephen Wangh Greg Pierotti joined Tectonic Theater Project as an actor in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde in 1996. He was an actor and an associate writer DRAMATURGS on The Laramie Project. He was co-writer of the HBO teleplay The Laramie Amanda Gronich, Sarah Lambert, John McAdams, Project, for which he and fellow company members share a Humanitas Prize and Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, Barbara Pitts, Kelli Simpkins an Emmy nomination. He was a co-writer on Laramie: Ten Years Later. As a writer and actor with Tectonic he has performed and developed original work at La The US West World Premiere was produced by The Denver Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center, Minetta Lane, Union Square Theater, Alice Tully Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Arena Stage, The Magic, The Atlantic Theatre Center Theatre Company, Donovan Marley, Artistic Director Company, Sundance Theater Lab, and NYTW’s lab at Dartmouth. He has been a in association with Tectonic Theater Project, Moisés Kaufman, master teacher of Moment Work since 2004. He was head writer on Leigh Artistic Director. Fondakowski’s The People’s Temple. He has developed his plays Apology and B More at Berkeley Repertory’s Ground Floor, The Orchard Project, The University of Originally produced in New York City at the Union Square California–Davis, and at Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes, France, where he was a Theatre by Roy Gabay and Tectonic Theater Project in Brown Fellow. He is a nominee for the Alpert Award in the arts in the category of association with Gayle Francis and the Araca Group Associate theater. His latest research explores cross-pollinations between theater and Producers: Mara Isaacs and Hart Sharp Entertainment. anthropology. He uses theatrical devising techniques to help ethnographic writers create performance or to re-engage the empirical data they have The Laramie Project was developed in part with the support of collected in field research as they write. He is an assistant professor in the MFA of The Sundance Theatre Laboratory. generative dramaturgy at the University of Arizona. Stephen Wangh, has been a playwright, director, and teacher of acting. He is the author of An Acrobat of the Heart, a physical approach to acting inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski (Vintage, Random House, 2000) and of The Heart of Teaching: Empowering Students in the Performing Arts (Routledge, The Laramie Project will be performed with one ten-minute 2012). He is the author of 15 plays and was one of the writers of The People’s intermission. Temple (Glickman award: Best play in the Bay Area, 2005). He was Associate Writer for The Laramie Project (Emmy nomination 2002), and dramaturg of Time: 1998-1999 Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency, the three trials of Oscar Wilde (1997). For 20 years Steve taught acting in the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. Then, Setting: Laramie, Wyoming for seven years he was Guest Faculty at the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University where he taught physical acting and pedagogy. THE AUTHOR’S AUTHOR' NOT Moiss aufman is a Tony and mmy nominated director and playwright. His by Moisés Kaufman play 33 ariations, starring ane Fonda, was nominated for five Tony awards The Laramie Project was written throuh a unique including one for Ms. Fonda. Before that, Mr. Kaufman directed the Pulitzer and Tony award-winnin play I m My Own Wife, earning him an Obie award collaboration by Tectonic Theater Project. Durin the year-and- for his direction as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille a-half development of the play, members of the company and Lortel nominations. His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar I traveled to Laramie si times to conduct interviews with the Wilde and The Laramie Project have been among the most performed plays people of the town. We transcribed and edited the interviews, in America over the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also directed the film then conducted several workshops in which the members of the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO, which was the opening night company presented material and acted as dramaturgs in the selection at the Sundance Film Festival and won the National Board of creation of the play. Review ward, the Humanitas Prize, and a Special Mention for Best First Film at the Berlin Film Festival. The film also earned Mr. Kaufman two Emmy Award s the volume of material rew with each additional trip to nominations for Best Director and Best Writer. He is the rtistic Director of Laramie, a small writers roup from within the company bean Tectonic Theater Project and a Gugenheim Fellow in Playwritin. Other credits include Benal Tier at the Bahdad oo Mark Taper to work closely with me to further oranize and edit the material, Forum); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber Public Theater); This Is How It con duct additional research in Laramie, and collaborate on Goes Donmar Warehouse); One rm by Tennessee Williams Steppenwolf the writin of the play. This roup was led by Leih Fondakowski Theater Company); Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory as Head Writer, with Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti as Theater); and Lady Windermere’s Fan Williamstown Theater Festival. ssociate Writers. Leigh ondakowski was the head writer on The Laramie Project, a co-writer of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, and an mmy-nominated co- s we got closer to the play's first production in Denver, the screenwriter for the HBO adaptation of The Laramie Project. She has been a actors, including Stephen Belber and Gre Pierotti, turned their member of Tectonic since 994. Her original works as playwright/director focus to performance, while Leih Fondakowski continued to include SPILL (Swine Palace, TimeLine Theater, nsemble Studio Theatre, 2015 work with me on drafts of the play, as did Stephen Wanh, who Kilroy List); The People’s Temple Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Theater by then had joined us as an ssociate Writer and bench coach.” Company, the Guthrie Theater, Glickman ward for Best New Play in the Bay Area 5); and I Think I Like Girls Encore Theater, Bay rea Critics Circle nomination for Best Production, voted one of the top ten plays of 2002 by the DIRECTOR’S TE Advocate. Leigh was a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a 0 By Jessica Gaffney Distinuished isiting Chair at the University of Minnesota, where she lectured and developed Casa Cushman, a work-in-progress about nineteenth-century I feel a reat deal of pride for the students who worked so American actress Charlotte Cushman. s director, she headed the national hard to brin this production to you. This play ave us the tour of The Laramie Project and Laramie: Ten Years Later and co-directed The opportunity to see an event throuh different lenses and Laramie Cycle with Moisés Kaufman at the Brooklyn cademy of Music. She has directed and developed plays with playwrights nne Marie Cummings, throuh eyes other than our own. Workin on this production Colman Domingo, Laura ason, ulia ordan, Deb Margolin, Lisa Ramirez, llen opened dialoue and helped the students learn to have Gordon Reeves, and Bennett Singer. In 201, she released her first nonfiction empathy for people with fundamentally different opinions than book, “Stories from Jonestown,” and she is currently adapting it for film. Leigh is their own. This is one of the reat powers of the theatre. a teaching artist at New Orleans Center for Creative rts and Naropa University. Thank you for bein here. CAST ARTST STFF Director----------------------------------------------------------Jessica affney ssistant irector---------------------------------------------------Mara artin Stephen Belber, Doc O’connor,----------------------------------Jamie Lane Matt Galloway, ill cKinney, Stage anager--------------------------------------------------Jordan ively Andrew ome, Fred Phelps, nsemble Scenic esigner----------------------------------enamin Weinert-Lishner Amanda Gronich, arge urray,-------------------------------- le effer Costume esigner ------------------------------------------- Wes atchelder Trish Steger, Shadow, Sherry Johnson, Stephan Mead Johnson, nsemble Sound esigner-------------------------------------------Hannah Schneider Lighting esigner-----------------------------------------Hannah Schneider Reggie Flutty, ebecca Hilliker, ,------------------------Emma osenstein Baptist Minister, Waitress,
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