![]() Works from this period include The Tooth of Crime (1972), which marked a stylistic departure from a From 1971 to 1973, the family lived in London, England, where Shepard continued Shepard married the actress O-Lan Jones in 1969, and they had a son, Jesse Mojo Shepard,ġ970. Musical involvement influenced his writing leading to what are referred to as "the Rock plays," which include the Obie Award winning Melodrama Play (1968), Operation Sidewinder (1970), and Mad Dog Blues (1971). Same year, Shepard began to play drums with the rock band The Holy Modal Rounders. He wrote his first full-length play, La Turista, in 1967, for which he also received an Obie Award. Watch." He went on to write several more one-act plays, including the Obie Award Off-Off-Broadway movement, being dubbed as "the one to He quickly attracted a following in what became known as the Shepard's first two plays, Cowboys (1964), and The Rock Garden (1964), were avant-garde one-act plays performed at There that Shepard met Ralph Cook, founder of the Theatre Genesis, who encouraged Legendary jazz musician, who helped him get a job at jazz club, The Village Gate. He shared an apartment with his old high school friend, Charles Mingus, Jr., son of In 1963, Shepard left the theater group and moved to New York to pursue an acting Traveling theater group, the Bishop's Company Repertory Players. After graduating in 1960, he attended MountĪntonio Junior College to study agriculture. ![]() Worked as a stable hand at a horse ranch. He began acting and writing poetry while in high school, The family lived inĭakota, Utah, Florida, and Guam, and eventually settled in Duarte, California, where The son of an army officer, he spent his childhood living on different militaryĪlong with his mother, who was a teacher, and his two sisters. Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers VII in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, on Novemberġ943. ![]()
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