Guy Boyd Joins Cast of August: Osage County

Guy Boyd is set to join the Broadway cast of Tracy Letts’ award-winning play August: Osage County. Boyd will take over the role of lovable uncle Charlie Aiken on December 16. He replaces Robert Foxworth, who joined the cast this past June.

Guy Boyd’s other Broadway credits include Sex & Longing and Rose. Off-Broadway he’s appeared in Adam Rapp’s Stone Cold Dead Serious, American Sligo, Essential Self Defense, Quincy Long’s People Be Heard, Joy of Going, Somewhere Definite, The Lively Lad, The Late Henry Moss Signature Theatre, Betty’s Summer Vacation Playwrights Horizons and Now That’s What I Call A Storm The Edge Theatre. His film credits include The Savages, Taking Chance, Sister Act, Jagged Edge, Body Double, Lucas and Streamers, for which the Venice Film Fesitival awarded him the Golden Lion Award for Best Actor.

Directed by Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County is a comedy-drama involving the Westons, a dysfunctional family who can’t help falling apart even in the wake of their father’s disappearance.

The acclaimed production opened on Broadway on December 4, 2007, and won five Tony Awards, including Best Play, as well as earning Letts the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.