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LEIGH FONDAKOWSKI
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Leigh Fondakowski is a playwright and director and long-time member of Tectonic Theater Project. She was the Head Writer of THE LARAMIE PROJECT, an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of LARAMIE for HBO, and a co-writer of THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER. Her other original plays include, THE PEOPLE's TEMPLE, which was performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Theater Company, and The Guthrie Theater, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005; I THINK I LIKE GIRLS, which premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate; and SPILL, inspired by events in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, which had its world premiere in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in March 2014 and will be in Chicago with TimeLine Theater in the fall of 2015. Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a 2009 Macdowell Colony Fellow, and a 2010 Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of Minnesota, where she lectured and developed CASA CUSHMAN, a work-in-progress about 19th-century American actress Charlotte Cushman. She recently co-directed THE LARAMIE CYCLE with Moises Kaufman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the University of Minnesota Press released STORIES FROM JONESTOWN, her first creative non-fiction book. As a director, she has developed new work with playwrights Zina Camblin, Colman Domingo, Laura Eason, Julia Jordan, Lisa Ramirez, and Bobby Ryan. She is currently a teaching artist at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.
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Laramie Project, The: Ten Years Later SpillLaramie Project, The: Ten Years Later
On November 6, 1998, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard left the Fireside Bar with aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. the following day he was discovered on a prairie at the edge of town, tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close to death. Six days later Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. On November 14th, 1998, ten members of Tectonic theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming and conducted interviews with the people of the town. Over the next year, the company returned to Laramie six times and conducted over 200 interviews. these texts became the basis for the play the Laramie Project. Ten years later on September 12th, 2008, five members of Tectonic returned to Laramie to try to understand the long-term effect of the murder. they found a town wrestling with its legacy and its place in history. In addition to revisiting the folks whose words riveted us in the original play, this time around, the company also spoke with the two murderers, McKinney and Henderson, as well as Matthew's mother, Judy Shepard. the LaRaMIe PROJeCT: TeN YeaRS LaTeR is a bold new work, which asks the question, "How does society write its own history?"
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Written by Moises Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris And Stephen Belber
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Gay/Lesbian, historical characters
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Based on interviews with people caught up in the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.
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