The Laramie Project Selected as Alternate for
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

For the second year in a row, a Domino Players production has been selected for the Region II Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The Region II festival was held in January at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pa.

The Laramie Project, directed by Jeffrey Lentz ’85 and performed in May 2009 on the Wachovia Theatre stage, has been selected as an alternate. The Laramie Project is based on 200 interviews with people from the town of Laramie, Wyo., conducted by Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project. Kaufman and his crew went to Laramie five weeks after the brutal beating death of gay college student Matthew Shepard in October 1998. The play is a chronicle of life in the town one year after the murder.

Last year, Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Julia Matthews, Ph.D., and performed in Nov. 2008, went to the regional festival in Philadelphia. In April 2007, the cast of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, directed by Lentz, was one of four shows selected from hundreds of college and university productions from across the country to perform at the National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Each year the Region II festival invites only nine shows and two alternates to perform from college theatres in seven states and the District of Columbia.

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