Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard’s latest plays Ages of the Moon (2009) and Kicking a Dead Horse (2007) were premiered by the Abbey Theatre at the Peacock.. He had his first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden produced by Theater Genesis in 1963. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theatre groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Eleven of his plays have won Obie Awards including Chicago and Icarus’s Mother (1965); Red Cross and La Turista (1966); Forensic and the Navigators and Melodrama Play (1967); The Tooth of Crime (1972); Action (1974) and Curse of the Starving Class (1976). He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as well as an Obie Award for his play Buried Child (1979). Fool for Love (1982) received the Obie for Best Play as well as for Direction. The critically acclaimed production of True West, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, opened in New York in 1984. A Lie of the Mind (1985) won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1986 and the 1986 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding New Play. States of Shock premiered at the American Place Theater in 1991 and Simpatico premiered at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1994. When the World was Green (Chef’s Fable), written with his long-time collaborator Joseph Chaikin and commissioned by Seven Stages in Atlanta, premiered at the Olympic Arts Festival. Buried Child, revived under the direction of Gary Sinise, opened on Broadway in April 1996 and won a Tony Award nomination. Signature Theater Company devoted its 1996-1997 season to his work. Eyes for Consuela premiered at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1998 and in 2000 The Late Henry Moss premiered at the Magic Theater in San Francisco before opening in New York the following year. The God of Hell received its world premiere in New York during 2004, at the same time as Sam appeared in the New York premiere of Caryl Churchill’s A Number at New York Theater Workshop. Sam wrote the screenplays for Zabriskie Point, Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas and Robert Altman’s Fool for Love, a film version of his play of the same title. As writer/director, he filmed Far North and Silent Tongue in 1988 and 1994 respectively. As an actor, he has appeared in the films The Assassination of Jesse James, Days of Heaven, Resurrection, Raggedy Man, The Right Stuff, Frances, Country, Fool for Love, Crimes of the Heart, Baby Boom, Steel Magnolias, Bright Angel, Defenseless, Voyager, Thunderheart, The Pelican Brief, Safe Passage, Hamlet and Don’t Come Knocking, also co-written with Wim Wenders.
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