🎬 Sam Shepard

About

Sam Shepard (1943–2017) was an American playwright, actor, and director, widely regarded as one of the most important voices in 20th-century American theatre. His plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child (1979) and True West, explore the American myth, family dysfunction, and existential crisis. He was also known as a film actor, notably in The Right Stuff (1983).