Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor, and a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. His most celebrated work is *August: Osage County*, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2008. His body of work also includes acclaimed plays such as *Killer Joe*, *Bug*, and *The Minutes*, often characterized by a sharp analysis of American family and social dysfunction. Alongside his writing, Letts has built a solid career as an actor, winning a Tony Award in 2013 for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the revival of *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*. On screen, he is known for his roles in films such as *Lady Bird* and *Ford v Ferrari*, and for his participation in the television series *Homeland*, demonstrating remarkable versatility between stage and screen.