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Chapters (12)
  1. Cover
  2. Acclaim forTHE LARAMIE PROJECT
  3. Other Books by This Author
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. INTRODUCTIONby Moisés Kaufman
  8. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  9. ACT I
  10. ACT II
  11. ACT III
  12. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Other directing credits include Women in Beckett, a collection of Samuel Beckett’s short plays for women, performed by actresses sixty-five to eighty; In the Winter of Cities, his adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s later one-acts; The Nest by Franz Xaver Kroetz, named by The Village Voice as one of the top 10 theatrical works of 1994–95; and Marlowe’s Eye by Naomi Iizuka. Moisés is a member of Thespis, the foremost experimental theater company in his native Venezuela. In June 1999 he was named Artist of the Year by Venezuela’s Casa del Artista, a national award voted on by artists from a wide variety of fields.

LEIGH FONDAKOWSKI (Head Writer) has been a member of Tectonic Theater Project since 1995. As head writer for The Laramie Project, she has been involved in all phases of development since its inception in 1998, including the world premiere at the Denber Center Theater Company, the Off-Broadway production at Union Square Theatre in New York, and the film adaptation for HBO. Other projects with Tectonic include workshops of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and the production of Naomi Iizuka’s Marlowe’s Eye. As writer and director, her most recent original work, I Think I Like Girls, received its world premiere in San Francisco coproduced by Encore Theater Company and Black Sheep, of which she is cofounder. Other original work includes: Letters to Myself, Happenings, and The Resurrection Invention, cowritten with Maxwell Fraser. Directing credits include: Jean Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine for Quantum Theater, Gwen John (adapted from the novel by Jane Warrick) with the Lincoln Center Theater Directing Lab, and Agatha by Marguerite Duras. She was the assistant director for the productions of The Laramie Project at the Denver Center Theater Company and Union Square Theatre and was responsible for remounting the original production at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse.