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. [1] He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.

List of Sam Shepard plays with descriptions, including any musicals by Sam Shepard, playwright. This Sam Shepard plays list includes promotional photos when available, as well as information about co-writers and Sam Shepard characters.

Pages in category "Plays by Sam Shepard" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

2017年7月31日 · Sam Shepard’s prize-winning plays and stories define a certain slice of America, an almost lone cowboy ethos, bleak and stark, sometimes surreal. His best-known plays came in the 1970s and...

Eleven of Sam’s plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, True West and Buried Child, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 1986, Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the ...

2025年3月20日 · Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, near Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.—died July 27, 2017, Midway, Kentucky) was an American playwright and actor whose plays adroitly blend images of the American West, Pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture.

A comprehensive source for the playwright's work and archives.

Over the past forty years, Sam has written over 45 plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for BURIED CHILD. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy.

Sam Shepard's Plays "Where do our feet think they're taking us?" Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier Sam Shepard: born to America in the early forties. Spent the next twenty or so years rummaging and ransacking its image stockpile. Shepard and his plays are as American as football, speed, coyotes, Hollywood, winning, Ma Rainey, Winchester

Throughout his career he, would win nine more Obie Awards for his plays, including Curse of the Starving Class (1977, Best New American Play), Buried Child (1979, Best Playwriting), and Fool for Love (1984, Best New American Play and Best Direction).