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An interview with Peter Coyote
with Peter Coyote on Jul 19, 1999
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with Peter Coyote on Jul 19, 1999
Peter Coyote is an acclaimed actor and author. Early in his career, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a radical political street theater, where he began acting, writing and directing. He directed the first cross-country to tour of “The Minstrel Show, Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel,” a highly controversial piece closed by the authorities in several cities. The following year, a play, “Olive Pits,” that Peter co-wrote, directed and performed in, won a Special OBIE from New York’s Village Voice newspaper.
From 1967 to 1975, Peter became a prominent member of the San Francisco counter-culture community and founding member of the Diggers (later called Free Family), an anarchistic group who supplied free food, free housing and free medical aid to the hordes of runaways who appeared during the Summer of Love. Many of the stories of that period are included in Coyote?s memoir called “Sleeping Where I Fall” (1998). One of these stories, “Carla’s Story,” was awarded the 1993-1994 Pushcart Prize.
Source-Peter Coyote website http://www.petercoyote.com/biography.html
