Scott Crim Participates in "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later"

2017 Mar 27

Scott Crim will be part of the McKendree University Theatre Department's production of "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" at the Hettenhausen Center for the Arts on campus, March 30-April 2. Scott is the set foreman..

The play is an epilogue to the original Laramie Project, which was performed on campus a decade ago. "It asks us to take stock of where we are now, ten years after our production and almost 20 years after Matthew Shepard's murder," said Director Michelle Radke-Magnussen, associate professor of theatre at McKendree. Shepard was a 21-year-old gay college student whose brutal murder in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, was characterized as a hate crime. Members of the Tectonic Theatre Project wrote and produced the first "Laramie Project" 17 years ago. They traveled to Wyoming a month after Shepard's murder and through interviews with local citizens, company members' journal entries and other available texts, wrote "The Laramie Project." In 2008 the group met again with local townspeople to see what changes had occurred on a social and legislative level over ten years. The result was a second play, "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later."