LEIGH FONDAKOWSKI: Marge wished us luck, and when we asked her how Laramie would feel seeing a play about itself, she said:

MARGE MURRAY: I think we’d enjoy it. To show it’s not the hellhole of the earth would be nice, but that is up to how you portray us. And that in turn is up to how Laramie behaves.

GREG PIEROTTI: As we were getting off the phone she said to me:

MARGE MURRAY: Now, you take care. I love you, honey.

STEPHEN BELBER: Doc asked me if I wanted to ghostwrite a book about the whole event. Galloway offered me or anyone else a place to stay if and when we come back to Laramie. He also seemed interested as to whether there’d be any open auditions for this play.

ANDY PARIS: We left Laramie at about seven in the evening. On the way to Denver, I looked in my rearview mirror to take one last look at the town.

FATHER ROGER SCHMIT: And I will speak with you, I will trust that if you write a play of this, that you say it right. You need to do your best to say it correct.

ANDY PARIS: And in the distance I could see the sparkling lights of Laramie, Wyoming.

END OF PLAY

MOISÉS KAUFMAN is the founder and Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project, a New York City-based theater company. For Tectonic he wrote and directed Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, which ran for over six hundred performances in New York. He also directed it in Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum), San Francisco (Theater on the Square), Toronto (Canadian stage), and London’s West End (Gielgud Theatre). The play has been produced in over forty cities in the U.S. and in dozens of cities abroad. For Gross Indecency, Moisés won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, the Garland Award (Los Angeles) for Best Play, the Carbonell Award (Florida) for Best Play, the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Direction, the GLAAD Media Award for New York Theater, and the prestigious Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction given by his peers in the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Tectonic Theater Project also won an Outer Critics Circle Award as original producers of the play, and the published version of Gross Indecency won the Lambda Book Award.

His most recent work, The Laramie Project, opened at the Denver Center Theater Company in February 2000 and moved to New York in May 2000. It was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. In November 2000, Mr. Kaufman took his company to Laramie, Wyoming, to perform the play there. He is currently directing his film adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO.