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Sam Shepard.
In: Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2021-07-31, S. 3
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American playwright, screenwriter, and prose writer. Samuel Shepard Rogers VII has been compared to Eugene O’Neill in theatrical range and power. He is the son of Army Air Force bomber pilot Samuel Shepard Rogers and Jane Schook Rogers. Between 1943 and 1955, the family moved often from army post to army post, including a stay in Guam. They finally settled in California, residing during Shepard’s teenage years on an avocado and sheep ranch in Duarte. Shepard found some aspects of the ranching life attractive but chafed against the ordinariness of his relationship with his parents and the tedium of rural society. He became enamored of motion pictures and their heroes, took up jazz drumming, and read Beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. In 1962 he auditioned for the Bishop’s Company Repertory Players and began a six-month tour as an itinerant actor, ending up in New York City’s East Village in 1963. There he secured a job at the Village Gate, which introduced him to the country’s best jazz musicians and to Ralph Cook, who launched the Theatre Genesis, as well as Sam Shepard’s career, in the 1960’s. {$S[A]Rogers, Samuel Shepard, VII;Shepard, Sam}
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Sam Shepard.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Luckett, Perry D. ; Strecker, Trey |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2021-07-31, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | Nachschlagewerk |
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