Sam Shepard: podcast appearances and interviews

Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author, and musician whose career spanned five decades. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record ten Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. In 1994, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. His work is characterized by its bleak, poetic, and surrealist elements, often incorporating black comedy and featuring rootless characters living on the margins of American society. Shepard's theatrical style evolved from the absurdism of his early Off-off-Broadway plays to a more realistic approach in later works such as Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class. The New York magazine called him