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Tracy Letts
Biography
Tracy Letts is a multifaceted award-winning actor and playwright. Letts received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He has written the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: BUG and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County directed by John Wells.
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Credits & Awards
Film
Screenplay: Bug; Killer Joe; August: Osage County, and the screenplay for the film adaptation of A.J. Finn’s best-seller, The Woman in the Window, which will be released in theaters on May 15, 2020.
Acting: Steven Spielberg’s The Post alongside Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep; Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird; The Lovers with Debra Winger; and The Big Short directed by Adam McKay. Letts will next be seen in James Mangold’s racing drama Ford v Ferrari, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released on November 15th in theaters.
Theatre
Actor: Steppenwolf: American Buffalo, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Red Orchid Theatre: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Famous Door: Conquest of the South Pole Next Lab: Bouncers Alliance Stage of the Woodruff Arts Center (Atlanta).
Playwright Man From Nebraska; Bug; Killer Joe; August: Osage County; Superior Donuts; Mary Page Marlowe, The Minutes, Linda Vista.
Television
Prison Break; The District (CBS); Profiler (NBC); The Drew Carey Show (ABC); Seinfeld (NBC); Home Improvement (ABC); Homeland (Showtime); Divorce (HBO)
Awards
The 2005 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation. The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for August: Osage County. The 2008 Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County. The 2013 Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Past Productions
- Linda Vista
- American Buffalo
- Arms and the Man
- August: Osage County
- Balm In Gilead
- Betrayal
- Don Delillo
- Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Homebody/Kabul
- Last of the Boys
- Man From Nebraska
- Mary Page Marlowe
- Middletown
- No Man's Land
- Penelope
- Picasso At The Lapin Agile
- Savages
- Stories on Stage: Fever Dreams
- Streamers
- Superior Donuts
- The Caretaker
- The Dazzle
- The Dresser
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Pain and the Itch
- The Pillowman
- The Well-Appointed Room
- Three Days Of Rain
- Three Sisters
- Wrong Turn At Lungfish
- Bug
- BUG