Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black, Daryl Roth, Ronald Frankel, Marc Frankel, Barbara Freitag, Rick Steiner and Staton/Bell Group; Assistant Producer: Patrick Daly and Noah Himmelstein

Commissioned by and World Premiere presented at The Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Martha Lavey: Artistic Director; David Hawkanson: Executive Director)

Written by Tracy Letts; Music Composition: David Singer
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro; Assistant Director: Henry Wishcamper

Scenic Design by Todd Rosenthal; Costume Design by Ana Kuzmanic; Lighting Design by Ann G. Wrightson ; Sound Design by Richard Woodbury; Assistant Scenic Design: Kevin Depinet, Matthew D. Jordan, Martin Andrew Orlowicz and Stephen T. Sorenson; Assistant Costume Design: Amelia Dombrowski; Assistant Lighting Design: Kathleen Dobbins and Kristina Kloss; Assistant Sound Design: Joanna Lynne Staub

General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.; Company Manager: Mary Miller

Production Stage Manager: Deb Styer; Production Supervisor: Jane Grey; Technical Supervisor: Smitty/Theatersmith, Inc. and Christopher C. Smith

Original Casting: Erica Daniels; New York Casting: Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter and Paul Hardt; Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates and Irene Gandy; Marketing: TMG - The Marketing Group; Dramaturg: Edward Sobel; Fight Choreographer: Chuck Coyl; Dialect Coach: Cecilie O'Reilly; Advertising: SPOTCo, Inc.; Photographer: Joan Marcus

"AUGUST is crackling entertainment, an edge-of-the-seat roller-coaster ride through the ultimate in family dysfunction that has lost NONE of its humor or horror."

"A BRILLIANT play that takes the cliches of the warring family and makes them INVIGORATINGLY NEW."  

IAN BARFORD (Little Charles). Broadway: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Outer Critics nomination). The Crucible, Betrayal, Love Song, Libertine and many others at Steppenwolf. In LA: The Weir, Take Me Out, God's Man in Texas (Geffen). Dead End (Ahmanson). Film: 13 Going on 30, Road to Perdition. TV: “Medium”, “Numbers”, “Without a Trace” & many others. Recipient of National Theatre Conference award 1996.

DEANNA DUNAGAN (Violet Weston). Chicago: I Never Sang for My Father (Steppenwolf); A Delicate Balance (Remy Bumppo); James Joyce’s The Dead (Court Theatre); Bounce (Goodman/Kennedy Center). Two Joseph Jefferson Awards, three After Dark Awards. Regional: Spoleto Festival, Madison Rep, Shakespeare Dallas, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Asolo Theatre. First National Tour: Children of a Lesser God. Film: Losing Isaiah. TV: "Prison Break."

FRANCIS GUINAN (Charlie Aiken) is a member of Steppenwolf and appeared on Broadway in The Grapes of Wrath.  Recent credits include The Diary of AnneFrank, Love Song, Cherry Orchard,Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Skylight, The Libertine atSteppenwolf andInherit the Wind at Northlight Theatre.He dedicatesthis performance to Kate, Liamand Felicia.

RONDI REED (Mattie Fae Aiken), an ensemble member since 1979, has appeared in the Steppenwolf productions of Cherry Orchard, The Fall to Earth, Man from Nebraska, The Royal Family, Uncle Vanya, David Copperfield, Little Jo, Valparaiso, Side Man, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Little Voice and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other Chicago credits include Wicked, Romeo and Juliet and Retreat from Moscow. 

MARIANN MAYBERRY (Karen Weston). Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1993 where she has appeared in numerous productions. Broadway: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Metamorphoses. Regional: yes. TV: “Law & Order”, “The Dave Chappelle Show”, “The Pennsylvania Miner's Story”. Film: The Company, Since You've Been Gone, War of the Worlds.

RONDI REED (Mattie Fae Aiken), an ensemble member since 1979, has appeared in the Steppenwolf productions of Cherry Orchard, The Fall to Earth, Man from Nebraska, The Royal Family, Uncle Vanya, David Copperfield, Little Jo, Valparaiso, Side Man, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Little Voice and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other Chicago credits include Wicked, Romeo and Juliet and Retreat from Moscow.

MARIANN MAYBERRY (Karen Weston). Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1993 where she has appeared in numerous productions. Broadway: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Metamorphoses. Regional: yes. TV: “Law & Order”, “The Dave Chappelle Show”, “The Pennsylvania Miner's Story”. Film: The Company, Since You've Been Gone, War of the Worlds.

BRIAN KERWIN (Steve Heidebrecht). Broadway: After the Night and the Music, Little Foxes. Off-Broadway: Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Emily. Regional: Autumn Garden, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, How I Learned to Drive, Man From Nebraska. Film: Torch Song Trilogy, Jack. TV: “One Life to Live”, “Big Love”, “West Wing”, “Monk”, “Nip/Tuck”.

DENNIS LETTS (Beverly Weston) has appeared in over forty films and television shows as a character actor, including Little Boy Blue, Infamous, Secondhand Lions, Cast Away, Perfect World, Bloodsuckers from Outer Space and Where the Heart Is. Recent theater work includes two original plays performed in Austin, Texas: Dead Presidents’ Club by Larry L. King and Sonny’s Last Shot by Lawrence Wright.

MADELEINE MARTIN (Jean Fordham). Broadway: The Pillowman, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A Christmas Carol, Presenter 2003 Tony Awards. Television: Series regular: “Californication” (Showtime); guest-star: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Hope and Faith,” “Saturday Night Live”; star: “JoJo's Circus” (Disney). Lincoln Center: Scene de Ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nutcracker, student of the School of American Ballet.

MARIANN MAYBERRY (Karen Weston). Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1993 where she has appeared in numerous productions. Broadway: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Metamorphoses. Regional: yes. TV: “Law & Order”, “The Dave Chappelle Show”, “The Pennsylvania Miner's Story”. Film: The Company, Since You've Been Gone, War of the Worlds.

AMY MORTON (Barbara Fordham)is an actor and director and has been a member of Steppenwolf Theatre since 1997. She has appeared in over twenty productions with Steppenwolf and has directed many as well. Her last appearance on Broadway was as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Before joining Steppenwolf Amy was a member of the Remains Theatre Ensemble for fifteen years. 

SALLY MURPHY (Ivy Weston). Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, The Wild Party, Carousel and The Grapes of Wrath (also London and La Jolla). Sally originated roles in Bernarda Alba and A Man of No Importance at Lincoln Center. Film: Pollock, Fearless, Scent of a Woman, Charming Billy. Television: “Law and Order”, “If These Walls Could Talk”, “Chicago Hope”, “Victim of Love”.

JEFF PERRY (Bill Fordham) is Co-Founder & Former Artistic Director of the Steppenwolf Theatre.  Over 30 Steppenwolf productions including The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony for Best Play), Balm in Gilead (Chicago/NY), Uncle Vanya, The Time of Your Life (Chicago/Seattle/San Francisco).  Currently recurring as Thatcher Grey on ABC’S Grey’s Anatomy.

RONDI REED (Mattie Fae Aiken), an ensemble member since 1979, has appeared in the Steppenwolf productions of Cherry Orchard, The Fall to Earth, Man from Nebraska, The Royal Family, Uncle Vanya, David Copperfield, Little Jo, Valparaiso, Side Man, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Little Voice and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Other Chicago credits include Wicked, Romeo and Juliet and Retreat from Moscow.

TROY WEST (Sheriff Deon Gilbeau). Off-Broadway: Bug at the Barrow Street Theatre.  With Steppenwolf: The Berlin Circle, David Copperfield and the original production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, among others. Regional: Goodman, ACT (San Francisco), Geffen Playhouse, and Indiana Repertory. Mr. West is a company member of Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago.

TRACY LETTS (Playwright). Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize; Killer Joe, which has been produced in Chicago, London and New York; and Bug, which has played in New York, Chicago and London. He became a Steppenwolf ensemble member in 2002 and was recently named an artistic associate. His play Man from Nebraska was produced at Steppenwolf in 2003. He has appeared on television in “The District”, “Profiler”, “Prison Break”, “The Drew Carey Show”, “Seinfeld” and “Home Improvement”. Film appearances include Guinevere, U.S. Marshals and Chicago Cab.

ANNA D. SHAPIRO (Director) is an ensemble member at Steppenwolf, where her directing credits include The Unmentionables by Bruce Norris (also at Yale Rep), the world premiere of Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch (also in New York), Robert Anderson’s I Never Sang for My Father, the world premiere of Tracy Letts’ Man from Nebraska, and others. Shapiro is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Columbia College. She joined the faculty of Northwestern University as head of the Graduate Directing Program in 2002.