Rebecca Hilliker is the head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming and one of the theater company’s first contacts in Laramie. Rebecca introduces the interviewers to contacts in the town, including
Jedadiah Schultz. After
Matthew Shepard’s murder, Rebecca decides to stage
Angels in America at the University of Wyoming in order to try to expand the community’s awareness and encourage acceptance. Rebecca and her
Angels in America project show the audience the potential power of theater to change the views of a community— a power that the playwrights of
The Laramie Project clearly hope to channel in their own work.