August: Osage County

Awards and nominations

2007 Chicago production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2007 Jeff Award[28] Best Production – Play Won
Best Director – Play Anna D. Shapiro Won
Best Ensemble Won
Best Actress in a Principal Role – Play Deanna Dunagan Won
Amy Morton Nominated
Best New Work – Play Tracy Letts Won
Best Scenic Design Todd Rosenthal Won

Original Broadway production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2008 Tony Award[29] Best Play Won
Best Direction of a Play Anna D. Shapiro Won
Best Leading Actress in a Play Deanna Dunagan Won
Amy Morton Nominated
Best Featured Actress in a Play Rondi Reed Won
Best Scenic Design of a Play Todd Rosenthal Won
Best Lighting Design of a Play Ann G. Wrightson Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play Won
Outstanding Actress in a Play Deanna Dunagan Won
Amy Morton Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Jeff Perry Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Rondi Reed Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Play Anna D. Shapiro Won
Outstanding Costume Design Ana Kuzmanic Nominated
Drama League Award Distinguished Production of a Play Won
Outer Critics Circle Award[30] Outstanding Broadway Play Won
Outstanding Director of a Play Anna D. Shapiro Won
Outstanding Actress in a Play Deanna Dunagan Won
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Best Play Tracy Letts Won
Theatre World Award Deanna Dunagan Won
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tracy Letts Won
  • In 2009, Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Even with a run time of three and a half hours, Tracy Letts' 2007 drama of Southern-fried familial dysfunction went by in one lightning-fast jolt of pure theatrical electricity."[31]

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