Author(s): Sam Shepard

Education

Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today. -The New Yorker The greatest American playwright of his generation…the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society. -New York Magazine If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard. -Time Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage. -Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of ‘Night, Mother. One of our best and most challenging playwrights…his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape. -Newsweek His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable. -Esquire Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright. -The New Republic