BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Chaikin
Joe Chaikin, who founded the influential Open Theater in the 1960s, has written three other plays with Sam Shepard in addition to When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable). They are Tongues, Savage/Love, and The War in Heaven: An Angel's Monologue. The latter was first conceived when the pair spent four weeks teaching and working at the Loeb Drama Center in 1984. Their correspondence from 1972–1984, which stands as an eloquent commentary on an important decade of American drama, is published by New American Library.