Key Characters

Key Characters



Dr. Cantway – Emergency Room Physician at Ivinson Memorial Hospital (where Matthew Shepard is first taken after he is discovered.)

Rob DeBree – Detective for the Albany County Sheriff’s Department and chief investigator in Shepard’s murder.

Reggie Fluty – Policewoman who is first on the scene when Matthew Shepard is discovered.

Matt Galloway – Bartender at the Fireside.

Romaine Patterson – out lesbian friend of Matthew Shepard

Father Roger Schmit – Catholic priest

Jedadiah Schulz – University student

Moises Kaufman – member of Tectonic Theater Project

Amanda Gronich – member of Tectonic Theater Project

Rulon Stacey – CEO of  Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins (where Matthew Shepard is transferred to for medical treatment before his death.)

Catherine Connolly – Out lesbian professor at the University of Wyoming.

Rebecca Hilliker – Head of theatre department at University of Wyoming.

Aaron McKinney – one of the two young men who murder Matthew Shepard

Dennis Shepard – father of Matthew Shepard

Russell Henderson – one of the two young men who murder Matthew Shepard

Sherry Johnson – Administrative assistant at the University of Wyoming.









http://www.cord.edu/faculty/luther/principia/film/Laramie_Project.html



-People From the Film-

While the people portrayed in the interviews are supposed to be real accounts will real people,  most of these people remain anonymous beyond anything after the film. Whether that be for personal reasons or that they just don't come up on google searches I'll never know. Some people though I could find like that of Doctor Cantway a practicing doctor still in Laramie. Jedadiah Schultz spoke about the film and play in a news piece in 2009. Rebecca Hilliker is still a teacher in drama program at the University of Wyoming. Romaine Patterson is still fighting for gay rights as well as being an author a book about her time in Laramie.