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Sam Shepard's When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable), co-written with
Joseph Chaikin, appeared in last season's A.R.T.
New Stages series and will appear on tour at the Moscow Art Theatre in
Russia March 28-31 and in Singapore June 9-11. Mr. Shepard, who won the
1979 Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child, is also the author of the Obie-award-winning
plays Chicago, Icarus Mother, Red Cross, Forsenic
and the Navigators, Melodrama Play, The Tooth of Crime,
Action, Curse of the Starving Class, and Fool for Love,
A Lie of the Mind (New York Drama Critics Circle Award), and the
recent States of Shock, which premiered at the New York Shakespeare
Festival and moved to the Royal
Court theatre in London. Mr. Shepard wrote the screenplays for Antonioni's
Zabriskie Point, Altman's Fool for Love, and Wender's Paris,
Texas. As an actor, he appeared in Days of Heaven, Resurrection,
Raggedy Man, The Right Stuff, Frances, Country,
and Fool for Love. In 1986 Mr. Shepard was inducted into the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, where in 1992 he was awarded its Gold Medal
for Drama.
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