36-402: Karen Young may refer to: Karen Young (actress) (born 1958), American film and TV actress Karen Young (author) , American romance novelist of the late 20th / early 21st centuries Karen Young (American singer) (1951–1991), disco singer, one-hit-wonder of the late 1970s Karen Young (British singer) (born 1946), released several singles in
72-599: A Horse Dreamer at La MaMa in 1985. Several of Shepard's early plays, including Red Cross (1966) and La Turista (1967), were directed by Jacques Levy . A patron of the Chelsea Hotel scene, he also contributed to Kenneth Tynan 's Oh! Calcutta! (1969) and drummed sporadically from 1967 through 1971 with the band The Holy Modal Rounders , appearing on their albums Indian War Whoop (1967) and The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968). After winning six Obie Awards between 1966 and 1968, Shepard emerged as
108-596: A claim to the psychological terrain of classic American theater. True West and Fool for Love were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Some critics have expanded the trilogy to a quintet, including Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind . Shepard won a record-setting ten Obie Awards for writing and directing between 1966 and 1984. In 2010, A Lie of the Mind was revived in New York at the same time as Shepard's new play Ages of
144-433: A friend from Duarte High School and the son of jazz musician Charles Mingus . Shepard then lived with actress Joyce Aaron. From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones , with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (b. 1971). From 1970 to 1971, Shepard was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith , who remained unaware of his identity as a multiple Obie Award -winning playwright until it
180-419: A period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O'Dell with the lines: "He's got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway." Meanwhile, in "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", written during the same tour, Mitchell referenced the closeness between their birthdays, calling them "twins of spirit". Shepard met actress Jessica Lange on
216-559: A screenwriter with Robert Frank 's Me and My Brother (1968) and Michelangelo Antonioni 's Zabriskie Point (1970). Cowboy Mouth , a collaboration with his then-lover Patti Smith , was staged at The American Place Theatre in April 1971, providing early exposure for Smith, who would become a well-known musician. The story and characters in Cowboy Mouth were inspired by Shepard and Smith's relationship. After opening night, he abandoned
252-436: A turbulent trip on an airliner returning from Mexico in the 1960s, he apparently vowed never to fly again. Despite this longstanding aversion to flying, Shepard allowed Chuck Yeager to take him up in a jet in 1982 in preparation for playing the pilot in the film The Right Stuff . Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother . His character went through an airliner crash in
288-521: A young colt named Drum and rode double with his young son on an appaloosa named Cody. Shepard continued to write plays and served for a semester as Regents' Professor of Drama at the University of California, Davis . Shepard accompanied Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975 as the screenwriter for Renaldo and Clara that emerged from the tour. However, because much of the film
324-588: Is an American former film, television, and stage actress. Young was born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey on September 29, 1958. She graduated from Douglass Residential College at Rutgers University as an English major. After graduation, Young moved to New York City and became an actress. She was working as a waitress when she saw an advertisement in Backstage that read: "Wanted: 24-year-old Irish Catholic girl with long blonde hair." Young responded to
360-742: The Law & Order franchise . Her stage credits include roles in both New York productions of Sam Shephard 's A Lie of the Mind , playing daughter Sally in 1985 and mother Lorraine in Ethan Hawke 's 2010 production. Young and the rest of the cast were recognized as some of the "best performers of 2010" by Hilton Als in The New Yorker . Young married actor Tom Noonan in 1992, and they had two children together before their 1999 divorce. She married Ken Eisen in 2012. Sam Shepard Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017)
396-472: 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
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#1732941398007432-714: The Bishop's Company, a touring repertory group . Shepard moved to New York City in 1963 and found work as a busboy at the Village Gate nightclub. The following year, the Village Gate's head waiter, Ralph Cook, founded the experimental stage company Theater Genesis , housed at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in Manhattan. Two of Shepard's earliest one-act plays , The Rock Garden and Cowboys , debuted at Theater Genesis in October 1964. It
468-468: The Moon opened there. Reflecting on the two plays, Shepard said that the older play felt "awkward", adding, "All of the characters are in a fractured place, broken into pieces, and the pieces don't really fit together," while the newer play "is like a Porsche . It's sleek, it does exactly what you want it to do, and it can speed up but also shows off great brakes." The revival and the new play also coincided with
504-574: The Navigators at the nearby Astor Place Theatre in 1970. Shepard's play Shaved Splits was directed at La MaMa in 1970 by Bill Hart. Seth Allen directed Melodrama Play at La MaMa the following year. In 1981, Tony Barsha directed The Unseen Hand at La MaMa. The production then transferred to the Provincetown Playhouse and ran for over 100 performances. Syracuse Stage co-produced The Tooth of Crime at La MaMa in 1983. Also in 1983,
540-561: The Overtone Theatre and New Writers at the Westside co-produced Shepard's plays Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife at La MaMa. John Densmore performed in his own play Skins and Shepard and Joseph Chaikin 's play Tongues , directed as a double bill by Tony Abatemarco, at La MaMa in 1984. Nicholas Swyrydenko directed a production of Geography of
576-721: The United States Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot during World War II . Shepard characterized his father as "a drinking man, a dedicated alcoholic". His mother, Jane Elaine (née Schook; 1917–1994), was a teacher and a native of Chicago. Shepard grew up in southern California. He worked on a ranch as a teenager. After graduating from Duarte High School in Duarte, California , in 1961, he briefly studied animal husbandry at nearby Mt. San Antonio College . While at college, Shepard became enamored of Samuel Beckett , jazz , and abstract expressionism . He dropped out to join
612-522: The absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class . Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan, Illinois . He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. (1917–1984), but was called Steve Rogers. His father was a teacher and farmer who served in
648-757: The ad and ended up starring in Tony Garnett 's 1983 vigilante thriller Handgun , for which she had her hair cut off and in which she agreed to appear topless. She also appeared in films such as 9½ Weeks , Heat (1986), Jaws: The Revenge , Torch Song Trilogy , Night Game , The Wife , Daylight and Mercy . Young portrayed Sister Mary in The Orphan Killer (2011), and starred in many U.S. independent and foreign films including Heading South , Two Gates of Sleep and Conviction . On television, Young portrayed FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino on The Sopranos as well as various characters in
684-677: The film Voyager . In the early morning hours of January 3, 2009, Shepard was arrested and charged with speeding and drunk driving in Normal, Illinois . He pleaded guilty to both charges on February 11, 2009, and was sentenced to 24 months probation, alcohol education classes, and 100 hours of community service. On May 25, 2015, Shepard was arrested again in Santa Fe, New Mexico , for aggravated drunk driving. Those charges were later dismissed as having no likelihood of conviction at trial. His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones,
720-473: The late 1960s Karen Young (Canadian singer) (born 1951), singer and composer Karen Young (cricketer) (born 1968), Irish cricketer Karen Lewis Young (born 1951), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates Karen Young, one of the pseudonyms of Mary Millington (1945–1979) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
756-447: The more significant was Joseph Chaikin , a veteran of The Living Theatre and founder of The Open Theater . The two worked together on various projects, and Shepard has stated that Chaikin was a valuable mentor. In 2011, Shepard starred in the film Blackthorn . His final film appearance is Never Here , which premiered in June 2017 but had been filmed in 2014. Shepard also appeared in
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#1732941398007792-538: The plays in the trilogy, Buried Child (1978), won the Pulitzer Prize , and was nominated for five Tony Awards . This marked a major turning point in his career, heralding some of his best-known work, including True West (1980), Fool for Love (1983), and A Lie of the Mind (1985). A comic tale of reunion, in which a young man drops in on his grandfather's Illinois farmstead only to be greeted with indifference by his relations, Buried Child saw Shepard stake
828-501: The premiere of Buried Child (1982). During the 1970s, Shepard decided that his vision for his plays required him to direct them himself. He directed many of his own plays from that point onward. With only a few exceptions, he did not direct plays by other playwrights. He also directed two films but reportedly did not see film directing as a major interest. When Shepard first arrived in New York City, he roomed with Charlie Mingus III,
864-563: The production and fled to New England without a word to anyone involved. Shortly thereafter, Shepard relocated with his wife and son to London. While in London, he immersed himself in the study of G.I. Gurdjieff 's Fourth Way , a recurring preoccupation for much of his life. Returning to the United States in 1975, he moved to the 20-acre Flying Y Ranch in Mill Valley, California, where he raised
900-910: The publication of Shepard's collection Day out of Days: Stories . The book includes "short stories, poems and narrative sketches... that developed from dozens of leather-bound notebooks [Shepard] carried with him over the years." Shepard began his film acting career when cast in a major role as the land baron in Terrence Malick 's Days of Heaven (1978), opposite Richard Gere and Brooke Adams . This led to other film roles, including that of Cal, Ellen Burstyn 's character's love interest in Resurrection (1980), and, most notably, Shepard's portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). The latter performance earned Shepard an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor . By 1986, Fool for Love
936-504: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karen_Young&oldid=1078127850 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Karen Young (actress) Karen Young (born September 29, 1958)
972-460: The set of the 1982 film Frances , in which they were both acting. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009. They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (b. 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (b. 1987). In 2003, Shepard's elder son, Jesse, wrote a book of short stories, and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at City Lights Bookstore . In 2014 and 2015, Shepard dated actress Mia Kirshner . After
1008-453: The television series Bloodline from 2014 to 2017. At the beginning of his career, Shepard did not direct his own plays. His early plays had a number of different directors, but were most frequently directed by Ralph Cook, the founder of Theatre Genesis . Later, while living at the Flying Y Ranch, Shepard formed a successful playwright-director relationship with Robert Woodruff , who directed
1044-462: Was adapted by Robert Altman with Shepard in the lead role; A Lie of the Mind was being performed Off Broadway (with Harvey Keitel and Geraldine Page ); and Shepard was working steadily as a film actor. Together, these achievements put him on the cover of Newsweek . Over the years, Shepard taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. Shepard
1080-474: Was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. 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
1116-588: Was around this time that he adopted the professional name Sam Shepard. In 1965, Shepard's one-act plays Dog and The Rocking Chair were produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club . These were the first of many productions of Shepard's work at La MaMa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1967, Tom O'Horgan directed Shepard's Melodrama Play alongside Leonard Melfi 's Times Square and Rochelle Owens ' Futz at La MaMa. In 1969, Jeff Bleckner directed Shepard's play The Unseen Hand at La MaMa. Bleckner then directed The Unseen Hand alongside Forensic and
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1152-419: Was divulged to her by Jackie Curtis . Smith said: "Me and his wife still even liked each other. I mean, it wasn't like committing adultery in the suburbs or something." Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with Shepard during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In " Coyote ", from her eighth studio album Hejira , she recounts Shepard's seduction of her at
1188-579: Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986. In 2000, Shepard demonstrated his gratitude to the Magic Theatre by staging The Late Henry Moss as a benefit for the theater, in San Francisco. The cast included Nick Nolte , Sean Penn , Woody Harrelson , and Cheech Marin . The limited, three-month run
1224-521: Was improvised, Shepard's work was seldom used. Rolling Thunder Logbook , his diary of the tour, was published in 1978. A decade later, Dylan and Shepard co-wrote the 11-minute song " Brownsville Girl ", included on Dylan's 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded and on later compilations. In 1975, Shepard was named playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where he created many of his notable works, including his Family Trilogy . One of
1260-523: Was sold out. In 2001, Shepard played General William F. Garrison in the film Black Hawk Down . Although he was cast in a supporting role, Shepard enjoyed renewed interest in his talent for screen acting. Shepard performed Spalding Gray 's final monologue Life Interrupted for the audiobook version, released in 2006. In 2007, Shepard contributed banjo to Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana 's song " Smells Like Teen Spirit " on her album Twelve . Although many artists had an influence on Shepard's work, one of
1296-604: Was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld. A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors , was also published that year. Shepard died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, Kentucky , aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Patti Smith paid homage to their long collaboration in The New Yorker . Fellow actor Matthew McConaughey , who had co-starred with Shepard in Mud , learned of Shepard's death during
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