Tracy Letts was born on Independence day, July 4th, 1965 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a world renowned Actor, dramatist, and Playwright who has worked on many works such as his award winning August: Osage County, Bug, The Stretch, and of course Superior Donuts.
Both of his parents were professors at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma, where Letts was raised. His father was an English professor and aspiring actor and his mother, a Journalism professor and an award winning novelist. While he was young Letts looked up to his father while he performed in the community theatre, and grew up wanting to be an actor himself. At first he briefly attended Southeastern Oklahoma for school, before moving to Dallas and then to Chicago where he would then find work in Acting and writing plays. The first play he wrote was in 1991 when he wrote Killer Joe. One of his most notable works is August: Osage County, which in 2007, won Letts a Pulitzer prize and 5 Tony Awards, including one for Best Play.
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