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The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia (see the Shepard article for more on the incident). The play is a compilation of over 200 interviews conducted by the theater company with inhabitants of the town. The play premiered at the Civic Center, Denver in February 2000 and was then performed in the Union Square Theater in New York City before a November 2002 performance in Laramie itself.

As a result of the play's success, HBO commissioned a 2002 film of The Laramie Project, also written and directed by Kaufman, starring Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Camryn Manheim, Bill Irwin, Summer Phoenix, Joshua Jackson, Clea Duvall and Janeane Garofalo. The film employs a documentary style but includes actual events re-enacted by actors. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2002 and was broadcast on HBO in March 2002.

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