The Gateway Regional Arts Center in Mount Sterling, Kentucky is casting a non-union production of "The Laramie Project" by Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project. All actors will be paid a stipend rate.

AUDITIONS: 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday, March 26th at the Gateway Regional Arts Center, 101 East Main St, Mt. Sterling, KY 40353. 

Audition Preparation: Please prepare a 1-minute contemporary dramatic monologue in the style of the show (a monologue in the category of “dramady” will also be accepted)

AUDITION SLOT FORM: Please sign up for a 5 minute audition slot at the link below.

REHEARSALS: Actors should be available for evening rehearsals, likely on Tuesdays and Thursdays, during the months of April and May 2024. 

PERFORMANCES: Actors must be available for evening performances on May 31 and June 1, 2024. 

SEEKING: The Director is seeking a diverse cast of performers age 18+ for this production. Seeking actors of all ages, ethnicities, races, backgrounds and gender identities. The cast will perform as narrators, townspeople, news media and local Laramie officials. A few performers will be asked to perform dialogue that is hateful and bigoted, so a comfortability with harsh and abrasive will be required, at auditions please let the production staff know if you are opposed to performing this dialogue. As an actor ensemble, all actors will be playing many characters including the narrator. The following breakdown is just a blueprint based on the first production of The Laramie Project. Our production will have more actors; this is shared to give auditioners an idea of which characters might be played by one actor.

Roles available include: 
Actor 1: Stephen Belber, Doc O’Connor, Matt Galloway, Anonymous Friend of Aaron McKinney, Bill McKinney, Andrew Gomez, Fred Phelps, Mormon Spiritual Advisor, Conrad Miller

Actor 2: portray Amanda Gronich, Eileen Engen, Marge Murray, Baptist Minister, Trish Stiger, Shadow

Actor 3: Reggie Fluty, Rebecca Hilliker, Debbie the Waitress

Actor 4: Moisés Kaufman, Philip Dubois, Stephen Mead Johnson, Murdock Cooper, Jon Peacock, Dennis Shepard, Harry Woods

Actor 5: Andy Paris, Jedadiah Schultz, Doug Laws, Dr. Cantway, Matt Mickelson, Russell Henderson, Aaron McKinney, Philip Dubois, Kerry Drake

Actor 6: Greg Pierotti, Detective Sergeant Hing, Phil LaBrie, Father Roger Schmit, Rulon Stacey, Detective Sergeant Rob DeBree, Jonas Slonaker

Actor 7: Barbara Pitts, Catherine Connolly, April Silva, Zub

Play Synopsis: In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. "The Laramie Project" is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.