The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (Post Performance)

Last night, all over the world, at one hundred and fifty theaters, it happened. The reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later was quite an event. Our production went off without a hitch. The live feeds before and after the show were broadcast on a large screen behind the stage, and the show itself received a fairly good response. One of the characters I played, Romaine Patterson, closed the play with a lovely speech about defining her friend Matt Shepard in two ways, "There's Matt who I knew and the good friend I had, and then there's Matthew Shepard. And Matthew is very different from Matt. Matthew Shepard is this iconic hate crime that has happened in our history, and Matthew Shepard is not necessarily about Matt, it's about a community's reaction, it is about the media that followed, it is about the crime, but it's not about Matt..." When I finished the speech, and we all shut our notebooks, the audience stood up.
It was great to be part of a project with such magnitude and power. I am very proud of what we accomplished last night, and I'm honored to be part of this global community.