"The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later"

Theater director (and Not In Our Town activist) Barbara Williams staged one of 150 performances of the premiere of "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" October 12, 2009. The epilogue of "The Laramie Project," a play about the reaction of the townspeople of Laramie, Wyoming, to the hate crime murder of Matthew Shepard, captures Laramie ten years after Shepard's death. Williams, a retired high school teacher, used the original play seven years ago with her students at Newark High School when a local transgender teen was murdered -- a story The Working Group captured in the documentary "Not In Our Town Northern California." Williams says her experience directing the sequel reinforced her desire to recommit to the Not In Our Town movement and anti-hate work.

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• Laramie Project
• not in our town
• NIOT
• Barbara Williams
• newark high school
• Matthew Shepard
• lgbt