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Moisés Kaufman

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 21 November 1963

Ethnicity: Romanian, Ukrainian Jewish

Nationality: Venezuelan

Occupation: Theatre director, playwright, entrepreneur 

- George by Alex Gino: An adorable middle grade novel about a trans girl who still goes by her birth name, George, as she tries to come to get comfortable with her identity, how to tell the ones she loves, and how to play Charlotte in their school’s production of Charlotte’s Web

- The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moises Kaufman: A play made up of interviews of the citizens of Laramie, Colorado in the direct aftermath of the Killing of Matthew Shepard, and a play following up on many of those same interviewees a decade later

- The 57 Bus: The True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater: An in-depth look at the key players and the events leading up to an assault on an Oakland bus, when a teenage boy set a nonbinary passenger's skirt on fire. 

- Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager: Amazingly well-researched accounts of LGBT+ historical figures, some famous, some more obscure

Sep. 13, 2018

Tectonic Theater Project announced today that Michael Emerson, Danny Burstein, Purva Bedi and Andrew Keenan-Bolger have joined the cast of LARAMIE: A LEGACY, a reading of The Laramie Project honoring the life and legacy of Matthew Shepard for the 20th anniversary of his death, on Monday, September 24th at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.

More info on Broadway World 

Plot: After the vicious murder of a young gay man by two of Laramie, Wyoming’s inhabitants, a theatre group descend on the town with a view to telling peoples stories in their own words, to show how the events affected everyone.

Review: In 1998, an American man called Matthew Shepard was taken to a remote field and beaten to death by two men, simply for being gay. The crime led to wider shock and outrage, and a great deal of soul-searching in the city where it took place: Laramie, Wyoming.

This made for TV movie is based on the play of the same name, where Moises Kaufman - writer and director of the film - and his colleagues in a theatre group give voice to the ordinary people of Laramie. To their shock, their anger, their existential angst, all resulting from Shepards murder. It’s quite powerful stuff, made even more powerful by a strong cast, including Steve Buscemi and Christine Ricci amongst many other recognizable faces and names. And it is incredible to see so many people struggle to come to terms with events.

Of course the film asks many meaningful questions about treatment of homosexual people in a town such as Laramie, and indeed the wider United States. But what it also shows is just how much hatred is spread by various forms of the church. That once people begin to question things for themselves, when confronted with something so horrific, they feel empathy and reject that hatred. It’s something which people still have to deal with today, twenty years after the events in Laramie.

What happens when a US Lieutenant Colonel turns over a photograph album compiled by an SS administrator at Auschwitz to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum? See 'Here There Are Blueberries' to find out.

The cast of Here There Are Blueberries (Matthew Murphy) Here There Are Blueberries, now in its third extension at New York Theatre Workshop, is a many-layered, superb production running until June 30. Stylized and theatricalized as a quasi-documentary that travels back and forth from present to past to present by enlivening characters in various settings, the play unravels the mysteries centered…