Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor. As a playwright, he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for August: Osage County, and in 2013, he won a Tony Award for his acting in the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He has also acted onscreen and written many scripts for television and film.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Letts was the child of an author, Billie Letts, and the actor Dennis Letts. As a young adult, he lived in Dallas for a few years, before moving to Chicago, where he began working with Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Eventually he founded his own theater company, Bang Bang Spontaneous Theatre. He acted in many plays at Steppenwolf, including a...
