Tectonic Theater Project

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With Moisés Kaufman at the helm, the Tectonic Theater Project explores the ways in which experimentation with form and structure can inform theme in contemporary drama.

Perhaps most widely known for The Laramie Project, a piece which examines the aftermath of the Matthew Shepard homophobic murder in Laramie, Wyoming by using actual interviews with townspeople to create the text of the play.

Other projects include "33 Variations" and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, both written by Moisés Kaufman and I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, all of which were created from historical and living records of actual events.

"33 Variations" dramatizes the latter period of Ludwig van Beethoven's life, and his composition of the "Diabelli Variations. The play also follows a modern-day musicologist afflicted with Lou Gherig's Disease -- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) -- as she tries to unravel the mystery of Beethoven's obsession.

Gross Indecency deals with the period of playwright Oscar Wilde's life when he was put on trial for 'gross indecency' -- homosexual sodomy -- due to his relationship with the Lord Alfred Douglas.

I Am My Own Wife won the Tony Award for best play in 2004. It explores the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite who survived both the Nazi and Communist governments in twentieth-century Berlin and founded the Gründerzeit museum.