Killer Joe by Tracy Letts
Winner – Best Comedy – Austin Critics Table Awards 2010
Winner – Best Direction – Austin Critics Table Award 2010
Winner – Outstanding Director of a Comedy – B Iden Payne Award 2009
Winner – Outstanding Fight Choreographer – B Iden Payne Award 2009
Outstanding Production of a Comedy – B Iden Payne Nomination
Outstanding Cast Performance – B Iden Payne Nomination
Outstanding Set Design – B Iden Payne Nomination
Outstanding Sound Design – B Iden Payne Nomination
Top 9 Productions of 2009 – Austin Chronicle
Capital T presents
Killer Joe
by Tracy Letts
Directed by Mark Pickell
Sound and Video Design – Adam Hilton
Costume Design – Cheryl Painter
Technical Director – Billy Dragoo
Fight Choreography – Travis Dean
Original Run
June 4th-27th
Extended Run
July 23rd-August 8th
Hyde Park Theatre
Killer Joe is Knocking Crtics Dead!–Read the Reviews!
Heads roll, shatter and blow in KILLER JOE, the savagely funny, pitch-dark comedy by Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright Tracy Letts (AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY).
The play focuses on the Smith family, a greedy, vindictive clan of trailer-trash Texans who hatch a plan to murder their estranged, naggy, alcoholic matriarch to cash in on her insurance policy. Unable to bring themselves to do the deed, they hire Killer Joe Cooper (Ken Bradley), a full-time cop and part-time contract killer. Once he steps into their trailer, their simple plan quickly spirals out of control.
Cast
Killer Joe Cooper – Kenneth Wayne Bradley
Chris Smith – Joey Hood
Sharla Smith – Katie DeBuys
Ansel Smith – Joe Reynolds
Dottie Smith – Melissa Recalde
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About the Play
Originally staged at the famed Steppenwolf Theatre KILLER JOE has gone on to be performed in 15 countries in 12 languages since its Chicago debut. It won top honors at the Edinburgh, Scotland, Fringe Theater Festival in ‘94, then played to sellout audiences at London’s The Buck and West Theater during a four-month run in which it won the Time Out Award as the Best Play of 1995. In 1998 it found an off-Broadway home at the 200-seat Soho Playhouse.
About the Playwright
Tracey Letts is a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright as well as an accomplished actor. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his searing family drama AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. His other plays include THE MAN FROM NEBRASKA (Pulitzer Nomination), BUG (Made into a feature film with Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.), and most recently SUPERIOR DONUTS. He is a company member of Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. His mother, Billie Letts (an accomplished novelist WHERE THE HEART IS) said of his work “Everybody in Tracy’s stories gets naked or dead.”
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