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Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career at the Steppenwolf Theatre before making his Broadway debut as a playwright for August: Osage County (2007), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
Feb 1, 2008 · Following in his mother's footsteps, Tracey Letts became a playwright, most notably of August: Osage County, which won both the Pulitzer Prize for drama and Tony Award in 2009. In Osage County, the dysfunctional Weston family has gathered to assist their mother Violet after their father Beverly's funeral.
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Jan 11, 2014 · Playwright Tracy Letts won the Pulitzer Prize for August: Osage County, a story of secrets and family dysfunction. Now it's been released as a film, for which Letts wrote the screenplay.
Feb 17, 2021 · The play opens with a Prologue in which Beverly is interviewing Johnna Monevata, a young Native American woman, to be a live-in housekeeper and cook. He explains that because “ [m]y wife takes pills and I drink,” they can no longer take care of the house.
This thrilling new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tracy Letts (Bug, Killer Joe) has been hailed by The New York Times as “hugely entertaining! A ripsnorter full of blistering, funny dialogue, acid-etched characters and scenes of no-holds-barred emotional combat.”
While it's rarely a simple matter to pinpoint the precise inspiration for a new play, the genesis of August: Osage County can be traced to my deliberate desire to write for an extant acting ensemble – in this case, Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
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Dec 20, 2013 · Tracy Letts. He is that rarest of theatrical birds: a playwright who can act. With the movie of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize–winning August: Osage County hitting theaters, William Friedkin...
