Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play.
A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where August: Osage County premiered..
His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally.
Tracy Letts is the author of Killer Joe , Bug , and Man from Nebraska , which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
August: Osage County has been produced in more than twenty countries worldwide and is now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, and Ewan McGregor.
The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.
When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. --Time One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. -Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays.
I wanted more. --New York magazine I don\'t care if August: Osage County is three-and-a-half hours long.
Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama\'s mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original. -- TimeOut New York Tracy Letts\' August: Osage County is what O\'Neill would be writing in 2007.
Now a major motion picture A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people.
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play
