TLP:10-Auckland Season

THE LARAMIE PROJECT 10 YEARS LATER is the epilogue to the iconic LARAMIE PROJECT. Edited together from interviews within the community of Laramie, Wyoming following the murder of Matthew Shepherd in an apparant hate crime. The epilogue is 100% verbatim with 8 of Wellington's finest actors playing a multitude of roles, from cops to priests, mothers to criminals. Heartfelt, humorous and provoking - TLP:10 is a work that calls for talk about social change towards prejudice, violence and intolerance.

The story belongs to Laramie, but its message is Universal.

ALACRITY PRODUCTIONS is a collective of professionally trained theatre artists brought together by the desire to make work that focusses on the voice of the community we are performing for. The company uses performance and entertainment to ask social and culturally relevant questions of its audience in order to spark debate and further questioning. We are committed to developing work that is sustainable in the present climate and continue to push boundaries in form, purpose and growing of the audience-performer relationship.

Alacrity Productions is enlisting 8 professional actors and 4 crew members - graduates from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School and people who've worked in the industry for years. 

We want to make sure these people are getting paid to help them deliver a wonderful show. 

The aim is to raise $333.33 per week for each member, working full time for three and a half weeks. This is a grand total of $14000!

We are asking our PledgeMe friends to help us raise $5,500 towards this end goal.

In a precarious industry this money will mean all the difference to a committed theatre maker.

Meet some of our crew!

Katharine (Kate) McGill graduated from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School at the end of 2009. Since graduating, Kate has featured in films ‘Home By Christmas,’ ‘Separation City,’ and the recent Nashville Film Festival qualifying ‘Darryn Exists.’

A proud New Zealander, Kate has created, performed and produced numerous works including ‘Vunderbra!,’ ‘The Love of Your Life’ and directed award winning ‘A Love Tail,' BadJelly the Witch,’ ‘Bird Song’ 'Munted' and 'The Laramie Project:10 Years Later.'
In 2010, Kate participated in the GALSCO Piknik Theatre Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and went on to an internship at the prestigious TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT (creators of TLP and TLP:10,) where she understudied one of the lead actresses and was offered a job at the end of the internship.

Kate is about to be seen in the new comedy series 'Girl Vs Boy' and is looking forward to touring around NZ with 'Munted' and 'The Laramie Project:10 Years Later.'

Daniel Williams Graduated from the Performance Design Degree atToi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School in 2006. His theatre career has seen Daniel design Sets and Costumes for Samuel Beckett's 'EndGame', 'Please Don't Feed the Models', 'Angels in America' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. He designed the costumes for 'Moa Can't Fly' a Taki Rua produced show that toured nationally. He was nominated Weta Workshop Set designer of the Year at the 2007 Chapman Tripp Awards and then Won the following year in 2008 for his work on 'The Little Dog Laughed'. Daniel has been the Set and Costume Design Mentor for the 'Young and Hungry' Festival, and Production Designer for 'Jeff Koons', Mr. Marmalade' and 'Shining Armour' at Bats Theatre in Wellington. The past two years saw Daniel work in Theatre and Film in Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Prague and London, since returning to New Zealand he has worked on 'Long Cloud Youth Theatre's' Dutch season of 'Welcome to the Woods' and 'The Book of Everything' the world premiere of 'Sheep' and co-directed and designed 'The Laramie Project' at the Wesley Church in Wellington. Most recently he designed the set for 'The 39 Steps' at Centrepoint Theatre. He is recently designed the set for the international arts festival season off Taki Rua's 'Michael James Manaia'.

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