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  1. Shepard, Sam Shepardnoun

    United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)

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  1. Sam Shepard

    Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.

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  1. sam shepard

    Sam Shepard, born Samuel Shepard Rogers III, was an esteemed American playwright, director, screenwriter, and actor. He was regarded as one of the most important playwrights of his generation in the American theater, known for his works that center on modern societal issues. Shepard also had a successful career in Hollywood, acting in various films and shows. He was notably famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Buried Child" and his role in the film "The Right Stuff," which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Shepard was born in 1943 and passed away in 2017.

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  1. Sam Shepard

    Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sam shepard in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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    The numerical value of sam shepard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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