Sam Shepard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sam Shepard

American playwright and actor

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1943

Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jul-2017

Profession: screenwriter, actor, playwright, author, dramaturge, stage actor, film director, theater director, percussionist, film actor, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sam Shepard

  • Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century.
  • He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most won by any writer or director.
  • He wrote 44 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."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.

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