Tulsa born actor and playwright Tracy Letts was a recipient of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama, awarded for his play, “August: Osage County .”

Letts is the son of two English professors who taught at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He grew up in Durant, Oklahoma and now resides in Chicago, blocks way from
the Steppenwolf Theater Company where he has been a performer for over twenty years.

Letts said the plot of “August: Osage County” is loosely based on experiences in his own life, which include the suicide of his grandfather and his grandmother’s consequent fall into drug addiction.

The New York Times assessed the play as “flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years,” and went on to say.”

Until his death in February, Letts’ father Dennis played the key role of Beverly Watson both at the Steppenwolf theater and after the play was made into a Broadway production.

Tracy Letts is currently wrapping up work on his latest play, “Superior Donuts,” which is scheduled to open at Steppenwolf this summer. 

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