Shepard's murder was the subject of the award-winning play and movie The Laramie Project.

* The Laramie Project ( 2002 )

The church has picketed, or threatened to picket, productions of The Laramie Project, a play based on the murder of Matthew Shepard, whose funeral they also picketed.

In February 2009, UK news sources discovered that WBC had announced on their website that they intended to picket a youth production of The Laramie Project to be held at Central Studio, Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke on February 20, 2009.

On December 12, 2008, the group picketed a production of The Laramie Project at the Boston Center for the Arts.

The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project ( specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins ) about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

The Laramie Project premiered at The Ricketson Theatre by the Denver Center Theatre Company ( Denver ) ( part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts ) in February 2000 and was then performed in the Union Square Theatre in New York City before a November 2002 performance in Laramie, Wyoming.

The holder of the royalties / rights to The Laramie Project is Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Matthew Shepard Foundation provides help and resource for those wishing to produce The Laramie Project or The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.

The Foundation's Laramie Project Specialist can help with media, historical context, creative consulting, and other resources and services at no charge to non-profit theatres and educational and religious institutions.

Notable actors / actresses who have performed in The Laramie Project include:

* Andrew Garfield-BAFTA award winning actor who recently appeared in the films Red Riding, Boy A and Lions for Lambs as well as the plays Romeo & Juliet, The Laramie Project, Kes and the Channel 4 show Sugar Rush, he recently played a main role in The Social Network and the title role in the 2012 release of The Amazing Spider Man

The premiere was on 16 March 2002 on NBC, the same day HBO showed another Matthew Shepard film entitled The Laramie Project.

Past performances include renditions of Metamorphoses, Cats, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Laramie Project, Les Misérables, Fiddler on the Roof, Urinetown and Beauty and the Beast.

* The Laramie Project, a 2000 play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman

* The Laramie Project ( film ), a 2002 film based on the play

* The Laramie Project ( 2002 )-Rebecca Hillicker