"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
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Dylan Baker
Rulon Stacey
Tom Bower
Father Roger Schmit
Clancy Brown
Rob Debree
Steve Buscemi
Doc O'Connor
Jeremy Davies
Jedadiah Schultz
Clea DuVall
Amanda Gronich
Peter Fonda
Doctor Cantway
Janeane Garofalo
Catherine Connolly
Bill Irwin
Harry Woods
Joshua Jackson
Matt Galloway
Director
Moisés Kaufman
Screenplay
Stephen Wangh
Tagline
"Everyone carries a piece of the truth."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
HBO, Cane/Gabay Productions, Good Machine
CinemaSerf
July 2, 2026
If you're at all familiar with the television movie made about the brutal slaughter of Matthew Shepard from 2002, you'll already know why New York's Tectonic Theatre Company descended upon the town of Laramie. Home to just shy of 30,000 citizens, this town has been rocked by the recent homophobic attack on a twenty-one year old man by two young men who pistol whipped him before tying him to a fenc...
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