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8 unusual facts about Sam Shepard


Alkek Library

These holdings include The Witliff Collection housed on the Library's seventh floor, the King of the Hill archives, major work of significant writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Sam Shepard, and the Lonesome Dove collection.

Christopher McCann

He has starred in several Broadway and Off-Broadway roles including the original Vince in Sam Shepard's Buried Child, Mihai in Mad Forest produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club Stage, Richard III at Theater at St. Clement's Church, and Dr. Miklos Nyiszli in The Grey Zone at the MCC Theater.

Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking is a 2005 film, a comedy-drama road movie directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard.

Red Clay Ramblers

The Red Clay Ramblers continued to perform steadily, including an Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Lie of the Mind in 1985-86.

The Holy Modal Rounders

For a time the band also featured prolific and famous playwright and actor, Sam Shepard.

After leaving the Fugs, the Rounders reformed with Sam Shepard and Lee Crabtree to record their third album (Indian War Whoop), and to appear in Shepard's play Forensic.

Tooth of Crime

The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1997 production of Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime.

William Frankfather

Frankfather received six DramaLogue awards for acting and producing and, as artistic director of Theatre 40, produced works by playwrights such as Medoff and Sam Shepard.


Abbey Theatre

The Abbey also developed a relationship with the Public Theater in New York, where it has presented two new plays; Terminus by Mark O'Rowe and Sam Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse.

Antony Root

As Head of International Drama he oversaw three movies for A&E in the United States - Murder in a Small Town and The Lady in Question, both starring Gene Wilder, and Dash and Lilly, starring Sam Shepard and Judy Davis.

Claire van der Boom

She played 'Karen' in David Rabe's An Early History of Fire (The New Group) and took over the role of 'Sally' (originally played by Julianne Nicholson) in the extended season of Sam Shepard's Heartless (Signature Theatre).

Gordon Kurtti

Kurtti also drew a spot-on caricature of Sam Shepard for the 1984 La Mama presentation of Shepard Sets, a series of three short plays: Suicide in B Flat, Angel City and Black Bog Beast.

Jake Whittenberg

Highlights include reading lines with Academy Award-winner Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard on the film, “Don't Come Knocking,” and serving as an assistant to Dave Matthews on a music video, “Gravedigger.” Jake made several films of his own, and earned "Best Fiction Film of the Year" in 2004 at the Montana Tracy Awards.

Niklas Kohrt

2009: True West (Sam Shepard / director: Sabine Auf der Heyde / role: Austin)

Providence Black Repertory Company

Mainstage productions have included plays by Amiri Baraka, Aisha Rahman, Athol Fugard, Federico García Lorca, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Cheryl West, María Irene Fornés, and August Wilson, as well as original stage adaptations of the poetry of Langston Hughes and Kevin Young (poet).

South Village

These South Village establishments were frequented by some of the most significant players in these cultural movements, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, James Agee, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sam Shepard and Jackson Pollock.

T with the Maggies

They were commissioned to record the folk song "Two Sisters" by Sam Shepard for his play Ages of the Moon, which opened in New York and Dublin, starring actors Stephen Rea and Seán McGinley.

The Gunfighter

Bob Dylan referenced scenes from The Gunfighter in his song Brownsville Girl, co-written by playwright Sam Shepard.

Ziad Hamzeh

He directed and or produced over sixty major award winning stage productions, among them Roxy Ventola’s After The Bomb, Brecht’s Baal, Sam Shepard’s True West, Arrabel’s Car Cemetery, Hamlet, Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre, Nicholas Kazan’s Blood Moon, Poor Murderer, The Architect and Empress of Assyria, Cinders, Low Level Panic, and Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi.


see also

Basil H. Johnston

By Reingard M. Nischik; Sam Shepard; Basil Johnston; Tom Clark; Richard Brautigan; Jayne Anne Phillips; T Coraghessan Boyle; Ray Bradbury; William Saroyan; Charles Johnson

Richard Schechner

With The Performance Group Schechner directed many productions including Dionysus in 69 based on Euripides' The Bacchae (1968), Makbeth based on Shakespeare's Macbeth (1969), Commune group devised piece (1970), Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime (1972), Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (1975), David Gaard's The Marilyn Project (1975), Seneca's Oedipus (1977), Terry Curtis Fox's Cops (1978), and Jean Genet's The Balcony (1979).