Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
Known For
81 titles
Felon
Klondike
In Dubious Battle
Out of the Furnace
Baby Boom
The Accidental Husband
Purgatory
Midnight Special
Streets of Laredo
Frances
Blackthorn
All the Pretty Horses
Hamlet
Blind Horizon
Crimes of the Heart
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Return
Raggedy Man
Resurrection
Don't Come Knocking
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Bright Angel
Safe Passage
Trudell
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