Whitefish Theatre Company holds auditions for a black curtain production of “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” Monday.

Auditions start at 7 p.m. at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave., Whitefish. Please arrive early to the green room to fill out an audition application and review the script.

“The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later,” written by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project, is an epilogue to the original play “The Laramie Project” that was created as a reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. A decade later, a few members of the Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie to see if this tragedy had long-term impacts on the community, as well as the nation. 

“The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” is a poignant play that resulted from hundreds of interviews with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries and published news reports. 

The cast will be composed of eight to 12 actors portraying almost 60 characters of various ages in a series of short scenes. As a black curtain production, actors will remain on book and there is no set. No preparation is required for the audition.

Jesse DeVine, Whitefish Theatre Company’s artistic director, is the director for this production. Total time commitment for this production is three to four weeks, including a technical rehearsal and two performances.

Performance dates are May 4 and 5.

For more information, call Whitefish Theatre Company at 862-5371.