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Wolf Man Cometh; Will Shephard brings his one-man play about Jack London to Carmel's Indoor Forest Theater.

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From: Coast weekly
Date: 20040211
Author:Anonymous

It was a simple suggestion, based more on looks than anything else, that started the haunting. That was back in 1975, when Will Shephard-now head of the Teledramatic Arts and Theater department at CSU Monterey Bay-was a struggling actor working in Southern California. His friend and co-actor Will Geer suggested that he write a one-man play about Jack London. The suggestion wasn't based on much more than the fact that Shephard and London shared a similar stocky build, square face and deep-set eyes. But it set Shephard to thinking and reading, and ultimately on a path that even he is at a loss ...

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