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Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American actor and dramatist who was best known for his award-winning play August: Osage County(2007; film 2013).
IIn 1991 Letts wrote the play Killer Joe, about a Texas family that enlists the titular murderer-for-hire to kill a relative with a sizable life insurance policy. The scriptwas so graphic and violent, however, that no theatre company would agree to produce it. Two years later Letts and a few other actors produced the play themselves. Mixed reviews did not prevent it from being a hit. A later successful staging at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe resulted in well-received productions in New York City and London. Next came Bug, a love story about a woman who is a cocaine addict and a man who thinks his body is infested with insects. It premiered in London in 1996 and later ran in New York. Meanwhile, Letts continued to act. He moved to Los Angeles for a brief period, finding bits of work on television shows such as Seinfeld and Judging Amy. He appeared onstage in several productions of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company before being invited to join the ensemble in 2002.