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Shepard is the composer of several musicals and five operas.

The operas are The Last of the Just, with a libretto by Gerald Walker, based on the novel by Andre Schwarz-Bart ( 1980 ); That Pig of a Molette ( 1988 ) and A Question of Faith ( 1990 ), both with Sheldon Harnick, which were presented as a double-bill under the title Love in Two Countries at St. Peter's Church Theatre, in New York City, by Musical Theater Works in 1991 ; and a score for the lost music of Thespis, which was first produced in concert in June 2008 by the Blue Hill Troupe in New York City.

In 1971, he composed the motion picture score for Such Good Friends, directed by Otto Preminger, and in 1974, he wrote a children's cantata, In the Night Kitchen, with Maurice Sendak.

He also composed the piano folio Folk a la Classique for Carl Fischer ( 2003 ; original compositions for children ) and was the composer and lyricist for children's educational material for the Carnegie Hall Explorers Division, The Children ’ s Symphony ( 2004, intended to teach the instruments of the orchestra to second-and third-grade schoolchildren ) and for the PBS television show Between the Lions ( 2007 ).