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 psychedelic folk 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 a screenwriter with Robert Frank's "Me and My Brother" (1968) and Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point" (1970).