We did The Laramie Project while still in manuscript form in 2001, shortly after 9/11...very intense.  Our production was invited to perform at the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Lincoln Nebraska...scary for a two-year program but also very exciting.  On our campus there were no gay people until we did "laramie". lol.  For the first time a dialogue began and it hasn't stopped in the eight years since.  We established a GLBT club and we have consistently done plays with gay characters or themes since.  We have established a GLBT Safe Space project.  We will bring back 9 of the original cast members for the Epilogue...it will be a joy to see them and see where they are "eight years later"..  The fact that they are coming from as far away as Chicago and Denver and that we all are still in contact with each other says something about the power of the original experience.  I am sure we are not alone.