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The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote
The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote is more than a portrait of one of America’s most celebrated writers—it is a haunting exploration of ambition, obsession and the terrible price of creating a masterpiece. Please make a contribution today to take this play to the AACT National Theatre Festival.
About the Wind Is Us
Discover the Award-Winning Play About the Life and Times of Truman Capote
The Wind Is Us: The Death That Killed Capote explores the turbulent final years of Truman Capote—an extraordinary writer celebrated for his brilliance, wounded by betrayal and ultimately consumed by the world he helped create. Written by internationally produced playwright Mike Broemmel, starring Eddie Schumacher, and directed by Bobby Pearlman, this intimate theatrical portrait has captivated audiences across the United States, Off-Broadway, and abroad.
Now entering its fifth year in production, The Wind Is Us received the 2024 United Solo Best Actor Award at Theatre Row in New York City and was honored by the 2026 Colorado Theatre Festival with awards for Outstanding Overall Production and Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role. Poignant, witty and unflinchingly human, the play looks beyond Capote’s carefully cultivated persona to reveal the lonely and complicated man behind the legend.
Reviews and Media About The Wind Is Us
United Solo at Theatre Row (Off Broadway)
Colorado Actor’s Rare Theatrical Journey from Denver to the World
Curtain Up Review - Lavender Theatre Festival
The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote by Mike Broemmel, follows the life of author Truman Capote from his days researching his iconic “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood until his death in 1984. The play stars Eddie Schumacher as Truman Capote and is drawn from first-person accounts of Capote’s time in Kansas researching the murders of the family at the heart of his masterpiece In Cold Blood.
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Curtain Up Review - Lavender Theatre Festival
Colorado Actor’s Rare Theatrical Journey from Denver to the World
Curtain Up Review - Lavender Theatre Festival
Truman Capote lived as though the world were his stage—glittering, performative, and always one breath away from collapse. In The Wind Is Us: The Death that Killed Capote, playwright Mike Broemmel and actor Eddie Schumacher resurrect that complicated figure with haunting intimacy. Schumacher, who earned the Best Actor Award at the United Solo Theatre Festival Off‑Broadway for this role, channels Capote’s lilting voice, brittle charm, and slow unraveling with uncanny precision. The result is a portrait of a man who dazzled America with Breakfast at Tiffany’s and reshaped nonfiction with In Cold Blood yet ultimately found himself undone by the very society he longed to captivate.
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Colorado Actor’s Rare Theatrical Journey from Denver to the World
Colorado Actor’s Rare Theatrical Journey from Denver to the World
Colorado Actor’s Rare Theatrical Journey from Denver to the World
Well-known Colorado actor Eddie Schumacher is doing things that rarely occur in the local Denver theatre scene, extending performances beyond typical runs, earning national and international acclaim, and reshaping expectations for how regional theatre can evolve, travel, and endure.
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