On October 12, 2009, Pisces Moon
Productions premiered a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to The
Laramie Project, the highly acclaimed play about the repercussions from a
gay hate crime -- the murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard --
on a community and ultimately, the world.
The
epilogue included new interviews with Matthew's mother,
Judy Shepard, and Mathew's murderers, Aaron
McKinney and Russell Henderson, who are serving two consecutive life sentences.
Pisces Moon was invited, along with 100 other
theaters in all fifty states, as well 50 more in Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Hong Kong and
Australia, to participate in the play's debut, an international event
of simultaneous stage readings that were linked via live webcasts and an interactive online community.
The Santa Cruz performance included returning cast
members of Pisces Moon's 2008 production of The Laramie Project,
as well as acclaimed theater artist Wilma Marcus, renowned activist
Bettina Aptheker, Tobin Keller, and Dinah Phillips. Dinah Phillips and Gail
Groves were the first same sex couple to be married in Santa Cruz
County.
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