Sam Shepard - Wikipedia Sam Shepard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other people with similar names, see Sam Shepard (disambiguation). Sam Shepard Shepard in 2004 Born Samuel Shepard Rogers III (1943-11-05)November 5, 1943 Fort Sheridan, Illinois, U.S. Died July 27, 2017(2017-07-27) (aged 73) Midway, Kentucky, U.S. Education Duarte High School Alma mater Mt. San Antonio College Occupation Actor playwright author screenwriter director Years active 1962–2017 Works Filmography Spouse(s) O-Lan Jones ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1984)​ Partner(s) Jessica Lange (c. 1982; sep. 2009) Children 3 Parent(s) Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr. Jane Elaine (née Schook) Awards Full list Website www.sam-shepard.com Signature Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century.[1] He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most won by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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."[2] Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society.[3] 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.[4] Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Writing 2.2 Acting 2.3 Directing 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Archives 6 Bibliography 7 Filmography 8 Awards and nominations 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links Early life[edit] Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.[5] He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr., but was called Steve Rogers.[6] Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr. (1917–1984)[7] was a teacher and farmer who served in the United States Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot during World War II. Shepard characterized his father as "a drinking man, a dedicated alcoholic".[8] His mother, Jane Elaine (née Schook; 1917–1994),[9] was a teacher and a native of Chicago.[10] Shepard worked on a ranch as a teenager. After graduating from Duarte High School in Duarte, California, in 1961, he briefly studied animal husbandry at nearby Mt. San Antonio College.[8][11] While at college, Shepard became enamored of Samuel Beckett, jazz, and abstract expressionism. He dropped out to join a touring repertory group, the Bishop's Company. Career[edit] Writing[edit] Shepard at age 21 Shepard moved to New York City in 1963 and found work as a busboy at the Village Gate nightclub. The following year, the Village Gate's head waiter, Ralph Cook, founded the experimental stage company Theater Genesis, housed at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village. Two of Shepard's earliest one-act plays, "The Rock Garden" and "Cowboys", debuted at Theater Genesis in October 1964. It was around this time that Steve Rogers adopted the professional name Sam Shepard.[12] In 1965, Shepard's one-act plays Dog and The Rocking Chair were produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.[13] These were the first of many productions of Shepard's work at La MaMa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1967, Tom O'Horgan directed Shepard's Melodrama Play alongside Leonard Melfi's Times Square and Rochelle Owens' Futz at La MaMa.[14] In 1969, Jeff Bleckner directed Shepard's science fiction play The Unseen Hand at La MaMa.[15] The Unseen Hand would later influence Richard O'Brien's musical The Rocky Horror Show.[citation needed] Bleckner then directed The Unseen Hand alongside Forensic and the Navigators at the nearby Astor Place Theater in 1970.[16] Shepard's play Shaved Splits was directed at La MaMa in 1970 by Bill Hart.[17] Seth Allen directed Melodrama Play at La MaMa the following year.[18] In 1981, Tony Barsha directed The Unseen Hand at La MaMa. The production then transferred to the Provincetown Playhouse and ran for over 100 performances.[19] Syracuse Stage co-produced The Tooth of Crime at La MaMa in 1983.[20] Also in 1983, the Overtone Theatre and New Writers at the Westside co-produced Shepard's plays Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife at La MaMa.[21] John Densmore performed in his own play Skins and Shepard and Joseph Chaikin's play Tongues, directed as a double bill by Tony Abatemarco, at La MaMa in 1984.[22] Nicholas Swyrydenko directed a production of Geography of a Horse Dreamer at La MaMa in 1985.[23] Several of Shepard's early plays, including Red Cross (1966) and La Turista (1967), were directed by Jacques Levy. A patron of the Chelsea Hotel scene, he also contributed to Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta! (1969) and drummed sporadically from 1967 through 1971 with the psychedelic folk band The Holy Modal Rounders, appearing on their albums Indian War Whoop (1967) and The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968). After winning six Obie Awards between 1966 and 1968, Shepard emerged as a screenwriter with Robert Frank's Me and My Brother (1968) and Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970). Cowboy Mouth, a collaboration with his then-lover Patti Smith, was staged at The American Place Theatre in April 1971, providing early exposure for Smith, who became a well-known musician. The story and characters in Cowboy Mouth were loosely inspired by Shepard and Smith's relationship. After opening night, he abandoned the production and fled to New England without a word to anyone involved.[24] Shortly thereafter, Shepard relocated with his wife and son to London. While in London, he immersed himself in the study of G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, a recurring preoccupation for much of his life. Returning to the United States in 1975, he moved to the 20-acre Flying Y Ranch in Mill Valley, California, where he raised a young colt named Drum and rode double with his young son on an appaloosa named Cody.[25][26][27][28][29] Shepard continued to write plays and served for a semester as Regents' Professor of Drama at the University of California, Davis. Shepard accompanied Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975 as the screenwriter for Renaldo and Clara that emerged from the tour. However, because much of the film was improvised, Shepard's work was seldom used. His diary of the tour, Rolling Thunder Logbook, was published in 1978. A decade later, Dylan and Shepard co-wrote the 11-minute song "Brownsville Girl", included on Dylan's 1986 Knocked Out Loaded album and on later compilations. In 1975, Shepard was named playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where he created many of his notable works, including his Family Trilogy. One of the plays in the trilogy, Buried Child (1978), won the Pulitzer Prize, and was nominated for five Tony Awards.[30] This marked a major turning point in his career, heralding some of his best-known work, including True West (1980), Fool for Love (1983), and A Lie of the Mind (1985). A comic tale of reunion, in which a young man drops in on his grandfather's Illinois farmstead only to be greeted with indifference by his relations, Buried Child saw Shepard stake a claim to the psychological terrain of classic American theater. True West and Fool for Love were subsequently nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.[31][32] Some critics have expanded the trilogy to a quintet, including Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind. Shepard won a record-setting 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing between 1966 and 1984. In 2010, A Lie of the Mind was revived in New York at the same time as Shepard's new play Ages of the Moon opened there.[33] Reflecting on the two plays, Shepard said that the older play felt "awkward", adding, "All of the characters are in a fractured place, broken into pieces, and the pieces don't really fit together," while the newer play "is like a Porsche. It's sleek, it does exactly what you want it to do, and it can speed up but also shows off great brakes."[34] The revival and the new play also coincided with the publication of Shepard's collection Day out of Days: Stories.[35] The book includes "short stories, poems and narrative sketches... that developed from dozens of leather-bound notebooks [Shepard] carried with him over the years."[34] Acting[edit] Shepard began his film acting career when cast in a major role as the doomed land baron in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), opposite Richard Gere and Brooke Adams.[31] This led to other important film roles, including that of Cal, Ellen Burstyn's character's love interest in Resurrection (1980), and, most notably, Shepard's portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). The latter performance earned Shepard an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. By 1986, Fool for Love was adapted by Robert Altman with Shepard in the lead role; A Lie of the Mind was being performed Off-Broadway with an all-star cast (including Harvey Keitel and Geraldine Page); and Shepard was working steadily as a film actor. Together, these achievements put him on the cover of Newsweek. Over the years, Shepard taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. Shepard was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[36] In 2000, Shepard demonstrated his gratitude to the Magic Theatre by staging The Late Henry Moss as a benefit for the theatre, in San Francisco. The cast included Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, and Cheech Marin. The limited, three-month run was sold out. In 2001, Shepard played General William F. Garrison in the film Black Hawk Down. Although he was cast in a supporting role, Shepard enjoyed renewed interest in his talent for screen acting. Shepard performed Spalding Gray's final monologue, Life Interrupted, for the audiobook version, released in 2006. In 2007, Shepard contributed banjo to Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on her album Twelve. Although many artists had an influence on Shepard's work, one of the most significant was Joseph Chaikin, a veteran of The Living Theatre and founder of The Open Theater.[12] The two worked together on various projects, and Shepard has stated that Chaikin was a valuable mentor. In 2011, Shepard starred in the film Blackthorn. His final film appearance is Never Here, which premiered in June 2017 but had been filmed in the fall of 2014.[37] Shepard also appeared in the television series Bloodline between 2014–2017.[38] Directing[edit] At the beginning of his career, Shepard did not direct his own plays. His early plays had a number of different directors, but were most frequently directed by Ralph Cook, the founder of Theatre Genesis. Later, while living at the Flying Y Ranch, Shepard formed a successful playwright-director relationship with Robert Woodruff, who directed the premiere of Buried Child (1982), among other plays. During the 1970s, Shepard decided that his vision for his plays required him to direct them himself. He directed many of his own plays from that point on. With only a few exceptions, he did not direct plays by other playwrights. He also directed two films, but reportedly did not see film directing as a major interest. Personal life[edit] When Shepard first arrived in New York City, he roomed with Charlie Mingus, Jr., a friend from high school and the son of jazz musician Charles Mingus. He then lived with actress Joyce Aaron. From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, Shepard was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith, who remained unaware of Shepard's identity as a multiple Obie Award-winning playwright until it was divulged to her by Jackie Curtis. According to Smith, "Me and his wife still even liked each other. I mean, it wasn't like committing adultery in the suburbs or something."[39] Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with Shepard during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In "Coyote" she recounts Shepard's seduction of Mitchell at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with the tour manager Christine O’Dell with the lines “He’s got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway.” [40] Shepard met Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they were both acting. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009.[41] They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987). In 2003, Shepard's elder son, Jesse, wrote a book of short stories, and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at City Lights Bookstore.[42] In 2014 and 2015, Shepard dated actress Mia Kirshner.[43][44] Despite having a longstanding aversion to flying, Shepard allowed Chuck Yeager to take him up in a jet plane in 1982, in preparation to play the pilot in the film The Right Stuff.[45][46] Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother.[47] He went through an airliner crash in the film Voyager, and apparently vowed never to fly again after a turbulent trip on an airliner returning from Mexico in the 1960s.[48] In the early morning hours of January 3, 2009, Shepard was arrested and charged with speeding and drunk driving in Normal, Illinois.[49] He pleaded guilty to both charges on February 11, 2009, and was sentenced to 24 months probation, alcohol education classes, and 100 hours of community service.[50] On May 25, 2015, Shepard was arrested again, this time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for aggravated drunk driving.[51] Those charges were later dismissed as having no likelihood of success at trial.[52] His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld.[53] A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year.[54] Death[edit] Shepard died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Kentucky, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).[5][55][56] Patti Smith paid homage to their long collaboration in The New Yorker.[57] Archives[edit] Sam Shepard's papers are split between the Wittliff Collections of Southwestern Writers at Texas State University, comprising 27 boxes (13 linear feet)[58] and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, comprising 30 document boxes (12.6 linear feet).[59] Bibliography[edit] Plays 1964: Cowboys 1964: The Rock Garden 1965: Chicago 1965: Icarus's Mother 1965: 4-H Club 1966: Red Cross 1966: Fourteen Hundred Thousand 1967: La Turista 1967: Cowboys #2 1967: Forensic & the Navigators 1969: The Unseen Hand 1969: Oh! Calcutta! (contributed sketches) 1970: The Holy Ghostly 1970: Operation Sidewinder 1971: Mad Dog Blues 1971: Back Bog Beast Bait 1971: Cowboy Mouth (with Patti Smith) 1972: The Tooth of Crime 1974: Geography of a Horse Dreamer 1975: Killer's Head 1975: Action 1976: Angel City 1976: Suicide in B Flat 1977: Inacoma 1978: Curse of the Starving Class 1978: Buried Child 1978: Tongues (with Joseph Chaikin) 1979: Seduced: a Play in Two Acts 1980: True West 1981: Savage/Love (with Joseph Chaikin) 1983: Fool for Love 1985: A Lie of the Mind 1987: A Short Life of Trouble 1987: The War in Heaven 1987: Baby Boom[citation needed] 1991: States of Shock 1993: Simpatico 1996: Tooth of Crime (Second Dance) 1998: Eyes for Consuela+ 2000: The Late Henry Moss 2004: The Notebook 2004: The God of Hell 2007: Kicking a Dead Horse 2009: Ages of the Moon 2011: Blackthorn 2012: Heartless 2014: A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) Collections 1973: Hawk Moon, Black Sparrow Press; ISBN 0-933826-23-0 1983: Motel Chronicles, City Lights; ISBN 0-87286-143-0 1984: Seven Plays, Dial Press, 368 pages; ISBN 0-553-34611-3 1984: Fool for Love and Other Plays, Bantam Books, 320 pages; ISBN 0-553-34590-7 1996: The Unseen Hand: and Other Plays, Vintage Books, 400 pages; ISBN 0-679-76789-4 1996: Cruising Paradise, Vintage Books, 255 pages; ISBN 0-679-74217-4 2003: Great Dream of Heaven, Vintage Books, 160 pages; ISBN 0-375-70452-3 2004: Rolling Thunder Logbook, Da Capo Press, 176 pages (reissue); ISBN 0-306-81371-8 2004: Day out of Days: Stories, Knopf, 304 pages; ISBN 978-0-307-26540-1 2013: Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, University of Texas Press, 400 pages; ISBN 978-0-292-76196-4 Novels 2017: The One Inside, Knopf, 172 pages; ISBN 978-0-451-49458-0 2017: Spy of the First Person, Knopf, 96 pages (published posthumously); ISBN 978-0-525-52156-3 Filmography[edit] Main article: Sam Shepard filmography Awards and nominations[edit] Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard See also[edit] List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature List of playwrights from the United States References[edit] ^ Shewey, Don (1997). Sam Shepard. Perseus Books Group. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-30680-770-1. He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III and called Steve, although if he were royalty his name would have been Samuel Shepard Rogers VII. ^ Wetzsteon, Ross (November 11, 1984). "The Genius of Sam Shepard". New York. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2015. ^ "Wim Wenders à propos de Sam Shepard (Video)" [Wim Wenders on Sam Shepard]. Institut national de l'audiovisuel (in French). May 2, 1984. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ Bloom, Harold (2009). Harold Bloom's Major Dramatists: Sam Shepard. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-43811-646-4. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2015. ^ a b Brantley, Ben (July 31, 2017). "Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Actor, Is Dead at 73". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ Bloom, Harold (2009). Sam Shepard. Infobase Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4381-1646-4. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2016. ^ Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr., Sam Shepard's father ^ a b O'Mahony, John (October 11, 2003). "The write stuff". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on April 14, 2017. ^ Jane Elaine (Schook) Rogers (1917 - 1994), Sam Shepard's mother ^ "Sam Shepard biography". Film Reference. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008. Retrieved November 25, 2008. ^ Shirley, Don (January 14, 1979). "Searching for Sam Shepard". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 16, 2018. ^ a b Botting, Gary (1972). The Theatre of Protest in America. Harden House. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2015. ^ "Production: 'Two One-Act Plays by Sam Shepard' (1965)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Times Square, Melodrama Play, and Futz (1967)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Unseen Hand, The (1969)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Two By Sam Shepard (1970)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Shaved Splits (1970)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Melodrama Play (1971)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Unseen Hand, The (1981)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Tooth of Crime, The (1983)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife (1983)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Tongues and Skins (1984)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ "Production: Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1985)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018. ^ Blackburn, John (May 1, 1996). "III. Cowboy Mouth". Portrait of the Artist: Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity. University of Virginia. Archived from the original on December 6, 2015. ^ "The Flying Y Ranch". San Rafael Daily Independent Journal. August 19, 1963. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.com. The Flying Y Ranch above Mill Valley is a popular place throughout the year with 4-H groups and Southern Marin Horsemen's Assn. members... ^ Oldenburg, Chuck (July 2001). "Where is Homestead Valley?". Mill Valley Historical Society. Retrieved August 16, 2018. ^ Oldenburg, Chuck (August 2013). "4-H Valley Riders". Mill Valley Historical Society. Retrieved August 16, 2018. ^ "Jesse Mojo Shepard". Sam Shepard.com. Retrieved August 16, 2018. ^ Benson, Heidi (February 21, 2003). "Sam Shepard's kid in writing game / Like his father's, Jesse's stories are filled with horses". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 16, 2018. ^ Chan, Stella; Thomas, Megan (August 1, 2017). "Sam Shepard, playwright and actor, dead at 73". CNN. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ a b "Sam Shepard: US actor and playwright dies aged 73". BBC News. July 31, 2017. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ Lee, Ashley (August 1, 2017). "Broadway to Dim Lights in Memory of Sam Shepard". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. ^ Brantley, Ben (February 19, 2010). "Theater Review: Home Is Where the Soul Aches". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 25, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ a b Healy, Patrick (February 13, 2010). "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard's New Velocity". The New York Times. Retrieved February 13, 2010. ^ Kirn, Walter (January 17, 2010). "Sam Shepard: The Highwayman – Review of Day out of Days: Stories by Sam Shepard". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 18, 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2010. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter S" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2011. ^ "Feature Films: 'You Were Never Here'". Backstage. November 2014. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ "Bloodline". The Sam Shepard Web Site. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ Morrisroe, Patricia (1995). "Patti Smith and Sam Shepard". Mapplethorpe: A Biography – via Ocean Star. ^ David Yaffe, Reckless Daughter - A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, p204, 2019, Sarah Crichton Books ^ Johnson, Zach (December 19, 2011). "Rep: Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard Have Separated". Us Weekly. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2012. ^ Sullivan, James (April 26, 2003). "The Scene: Sam Shepard joins Jesse Shepard for a reading at City Lights". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2013. ^ Sam Shepard and girlfriend Mia Kirshner shopping in Soho rexfeatures.com, 23 November 2014 ^ Sam Shepard with girlfriend Mia Kirshner out and about, New York rexfeatures.com, 30 March 2015 ^ Kirn, Walter (May 13, 1996). "Tales of Two Hipsters". New York. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2013. ^ Lang, Peter (2007). Dis/figuring Sam Shepard. Brussels: P.I.E Peter Lang. p. 42. ISBN 978-9-05201-352-7. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2015. ^ Bottoms, Stephen J. (1998). The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis. Cambridge University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-52158-791-4. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2015. ^ Callens, Mark (1998). Sam Shepard V8, Part 4. Taylor & Francis. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-20398-989-0. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2015. ^ "Sam Shepard Arrested – Blows It Big Time". TMZ. January 3, 2009. Archived from the original on February 17, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2009. ^ "Sam Shepard Guilty of Very Drunken Driving". TMZ. February 11, 2009. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. ^ Mackie, Drew (May 26, 2015). "Actor/Playwright Sam Shepard Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges in Santa Fe". People. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. ^ Carrillo, Edmundo (December 17, 2015). "Playwright Sam Shepard's DWI charge dismissed". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved June 13, 2019. ^ DeMara, Bruce (March 7, 2013). "Shepard & Dark, a testament to friendship: review". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2013. ^ Shepard, Sam; Dark, Johnny (November 2013). Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-29275-422-5. ^ Hill, Libby (July 31, 2017). "Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 73". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017. ^ Desta, Yohana (July 31, 2017). "Sam Shepard, Prolific Playwright and Actor, Dies at 73". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 17, 2018. ^ Smith, Patti (August 1, 2017). "My Buddy". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 3, 2017. ^ "Sam Shepard Papers, 1972–1999". Texas State University - San Marcos. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. ^ "Sam Shepard: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center". University of Texas at Austin. Processed by: Liz Murray (2011), Daniela Lozano (2012). Retrieved September 4, 2017.CS1 maint: others (link) Further reading[edit] Radavich, David. "Back to the (Plutonian) Midwest: Sam Shepard's The God of Hell". New England Theatre Journal 18 (2007): 95–108. Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s". The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58. Shewey, Don (1997). Sam Shepard. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80770-1. Ryder Howe, Benjamin; McCulloch, Jeanne; Simpson, Mona (1997). "Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12". The Paris Review (142). Corrigan, Michael (May 12, 2015). "Cruising Paradise with Sam Shepard". Atticus Review. Retrieved September 4, 2017. Winters, John (2017). Sam Shepard: a life. Berkeley, California. ISBN 9781619027084. OCLC 960836493. External links[edit] Sam Shepardat Wikipedia's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Data from Wikidata Official website The Flying Y Ranch Sam Shepard Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin Sam Shepard at Bucknell University Sam Shepard on IMDb Sam Shepard at the Internet Broadway Database Sam Shepard at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Sam Shepard at the TCM Movie Database Sam Shepard at AllMovie Works by or about Sam Shepard in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Carol Benet collection of Sam Shepard research materials, 1970–1995 Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Shepard's page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections v t e Sam Shepard Filmography Awards Plays Icarus's Mother La Turista Oh! Calcutta! Cowboy Mouth The Tooth of Crime Geography of a Horse Dreamer Action Angel City Suicide in B Flat Curse of the Starving Class Buried Child Tongues True West Fool for Love A Lie of the Mind Simpatico The God of Hell Kicking a Dead Horse Scripts Me and My Brother Zabriskie Point Renaldo and Clara Paris, Texas Far North Silent Tongue Don't Come Knocking See also Family Trilogy O-Lan Jones Jessica Lange Patti Smith Brownsville Girl Book v t e Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Authors Jesse Lynch Williams (1918) Eugene O'Neill (1920) Zona Gale (1921) Eugene O'Neill (1922) Owen Davis (1923) Hatcher Hughes (1924) Sidney Howard (1925) George Kelly (1926) Paul Green (1927) Eugene O'Neill (1928) Elmer Rice (1929) Marc Connelly (1930) Susan Glaspell (1931) George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1932) Maxwell Anderson (1933) Sidney Kingsley (1934) Zoe Akins (1935) Robert E. Sherwood (1936) Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1937) Thornton Wilder (1938) Robert E. Sherwood (1939) William Saroyan (1940) Robert E. Sherwood (1941) Thornton Wilder (1943) Mary Chase (1945) Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (1946) Tennessee Williams (1948) Arthur Miller (1949) Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950) Joseph Kramm (1952) William Inge (1953) John Patrick (1954) Tennessee Williams (1955) Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (1956) Eugene O'Neill (1957) Ketti Frings (1958) Archibald MacLeish (1959) Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1960) Tad Mosel (1961) Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (1962) Frank D. Gilroy (1965) Edward Albee (1967) Howard Sackler (1969) Charles Gordone (1970) Paul Zindel (1971) Jason Miller (1973) Edward Albee (1975) Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, James Kirkwood Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976) Michael Cristofer (1977) Donald L. Coburn (1978) Sam Shepard (1979) Lanford Wilson (1980) Beth Henley (1981) Charles Fuller (1982) Marsha Norman (1983) David Mamet (1984) James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (1985) August Wilson (1987) Alfred Uhry (1988) Wendy Wasserstein (1989) August Wilson (1990) Neil Simon (1991) Robert Schenkkan (1992) Tony Kushner (1993) Edward Albee (1994) Horton Foote (1995) Jonathan Larson (1996) Paula Vogel (1998) Margaret Edson (1999) Donald Margulies (2000) David Auburn (2001) Suzan-Lori Parks (2002) Nilo Cruz (2003) Doug Wright (2004) John Patrick Shanley (2005) David Lindsay-Abaire (2007) Tracy Letts (2008) Lynn Nottage (2009) Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2010) Bruce Norris (2011) Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012) Ayad Akhtar (2013) Annie Baker (2014) Stephen Adly Guirgis (2015) Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016) Lynn Nottage (2017) Martyna Majok (2018) Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019) Michael R. Jackson (2020) Authority control BIBSYS: 90065518 BNE: XX891183 BNF: cb12017326v (data) CANTIC: a11581165 CiNii: DA01264405 GND: 118812025 ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\049074 ISNI: 0000 0001 1032 2976 LCCN: n79151156 LNB: 000245326 MBA: b9afb910-1f9e-46fc-9806-df8f49015568 NDL: 00456349 NKC: jo20010086929 NLA: 35495142 NLG: 76837 NLK: KAC199625099 NSK: 000041248 NTA: 068724942 PLWABN: 9810687742705606 RERO: 02-A003827076 SELIBR: 207046 SNAC: w62f845v SUDOC: 027572994 ULAN: 500471723 VIAF: 108871266 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79151156 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&oldid=995816013" Categories: 1943 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male dramatists and playwrights American male film actors American male screenwriters American male short story writers American male stage actors Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Deaths from motor neuron disease Male actors from Illinois Male Western (genre) film actors Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Mt. San Antonio College alumni People from Fort Sheridan, Illinois Postmodern writers Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners Theatre of the Absurd 20th-century American male writers Screenwriters from Illinois The Holy Modal Rounders members Hidden categories: CS1 French-language sources (fr) CS1 maint: others Use mdy dates from August 2017 Biography with signature Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020 Articles with unsourced statements from January 2020 Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata Internet Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata Articles with IBDb links Internet Off-Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata Turner Classic Movies person ID same as Wikidata Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ICCU identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers AC with 25 elements Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Afrikaans العربية تۆرکجه भोजपुरी Български Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Galego 한국어 Italiano עברית ქართული Kiswahili Lëtzebuergesch Magyar Malagasy مصرى Nederlands 日本語 Norsk bokmål Polski Português Runa Simi Русский Shqip Simple English Slovenčina Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Tagalog Türkçe Українська 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 23 December 2020, at 01:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement