The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

NARRATOR – Played by various company members as needed.
GREG PIEROTTI – Member, Tectonic Theater Project; early forties.
BETH LOFFREDA – Professor, University of Wyoming; author of the book Losing Matt Shepard; early forties.
MOISÉS KAUFMAN – Artistic Director, Tectonic Theater Project; early forties.
STEPHEN BELBER – Member, Tectonic Theater Project; early forties.
LEIGH FONDAKOWSKI – Member, Tectonic Theater Project; late thirties.
MATT MICKELSON – Former owner of the Fireside Bar; forties.
MARGE MURRAY – Mother of police officer Reggie Fluty; late sixties.
JEFFREY LOCKWOOD – Laramie resident; fifties.
JEDADIAH SHULTZ – Laramie native; University of Wyoming theater student now living in NYC; early thirties.
REBECCA HILLIKER – Theater professor, University of Wyoming; fifties.
ZACKIE SALMON – Laramie resident, originally from Texas; advocate for domestic partner benefits on campus; fifties.
ANDY PARIS – Member, Tectonic Theater Project; late thirties.
COWBOY – Laconic man on the street; late forties.
RENTAL CAR AGENT – Retired military; early seventies.
REGGIE FLUTY – Police officer who found Matthew Shepard at the fence; retired; late forties.
JONAS SLONAKER – Openly gay Laramie resident; late forties.
DEB THOMSEN – Editor of the Laramie Boomerang, local Laramie newspaper; early fifties.
GOVERNOR FREUDENTHAL – Governor of Wyoming; fifties.
DAVE O’MALLEY – Retired Laramie police officer, lead investigator on the Matthew Shepard case for Laramie Police Department; early fifties.
CATHERINE CONNOLLY – Out lesbian professor, University of Wyoming; member of the Wyoming Legislature; fifties.
ROB DEBREE – Lead investigator on the Matthew Shepard case for the Albany County Sheriff’s Department; early fifties.
JIM OSBORNE – Friend of Matthew Shepard; Laramie resident; mid-thirties.
FRIEND #1 – Friend of Jim Osborne; early thirties.
GRANDMA – Grandmother of Friend #1; late seventies.
MOM – A Laramie housewife; early forties.
DENNIS SHEPARD – Father of Matthew Shepard; fifties.
JERRY PARKINSON – Dean of the law school, University of Wyoming; advocate for domestic partner benefits; late forties.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL – Late fifties.
FATHER ROGER – Catholic priest at the Catholic Newman Center in Laramie at the time of Matthew Shepard’s murder; sixties.
LUCY THOMPSON – Grandmother of convicted murderer, Russell Henderson; seventies.
BOY – Current student at University of Wyoming; late teens.
GIRL – Current student at University of Wyoming; late teens.
STUDENT – Another student at the University of Wyoming.
JAN LUNDHURST – Laramie resident; late forties.
20/20 NARRATOR – Newscaster; late thirties.
GLENN SILBER – Producer, 20/20; early fifties.
ROMAINE PATTERSON – Friend of Matthew Shepard; gay activist; early thirties.
BOOMERANG EDITOR – Played by actor who plays Deb Thomsen; early fifties.
FRIEND #2 – Friend of Jim Osborne; early twenties.
JOHN DORST – Professor, University of Wyoming; folklorist and Laramie resident; mid-fifties.
GEORGE – Laramie resident; guest at potluck dinner party; fifties.
BEN – Laramie resident; guest at potluck dinner party; forties.
JIM – Laramie resident; guest at potluck dinner party; forties.
SUSAN SWAPP – University of Wyoming professor and Laramie resident; mid-fifties.
NIKKI ELDER – Teacher, Laramie High School; early thirties.
RUSSELL HENDERSON – Convicted murderer of Matthew Shepard; early thirties.
CLERK – Chief clerk in Wyoming Legislature; mid-thirties.
PETERSON – Republican representative in Wyoming Legislature; late sixties.
DESK MATE – Catherine Connolly’s desk mate in the Legislature; early forties.
CONSERVATIVE COLLEAGUE – Catherine Connolly’s colleague in the Legislature; early fifties.
CHILDERS – Conservative representative in Wyoming Legislature; early seventies.
REPUBLICAN MAN – Catherine Connolly’s colleague in Wyoming Legislature; early fifties.
OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF WYOMING LEGISLATURE – Voting on Resolution 17.
AARON MCKINNEY – Convicted murderer of Matthew Shepard; early thirties.
JUDY SHEPARD – Mother of Matthew Shepard; fifties.