Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May 20, 1961) is an

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and

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. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the musical ''

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'' for which she won both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the

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. ''Fun Home'' was also awarded the

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in 2015 and the 2014

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for writing for musical theater.

Early life

Kron was born in

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. She jokes in one of her plays that her life began on her parents' trip to Europe: "I was conceived in Venice, you know. (Well, not actually in Venice, but in the nearby town of Mestra where hotels are a lot cheaper.)" Her mother is Ann Kron, born in 1932. Ann is a former antiques dealer and community activist. In the 1960s she founded the Westside Neighborhood Organization in

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. In a time when neighborhood segregation was the norm, the WNO helped to bring people from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds together. Ann

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when she married Lisa's father. Her father is Walter Kron, a retired lawyer born in Germany in 1922. He was born to a

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family, and is a

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survivor. In 1937 as the

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persecution of the Jews escalated, his parents sent him out of Germany via the

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program. He went back to Germany after

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, serving as a US army interrogator of Nazi war criminals. In the 1990s Kron and her father visited Auschwitz, where he believed his parents were murdered by the Nazis in the 1940s. She later found out that her father's parents were actually killed in Chelmno. Her brother is David Kron, born in 1963. He is a sound engineer and is married with a son. He says of his sister: "She is very funny, with a very sharp wit...And she always had her own way of looking at things." In her play ''Well'' Kron says that she felt like an outsider even in her own family because she, her parents and her brother David were the only Jews. Her maternal family is

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and none of her Jewish paternal family survived the Holocaust. Her play ''2.5 Minute Ride'' describes this contradiction as she recalls her mother asking her to come home for the holidays: "...she asks me every year, 'Are you going to make it home for Christmas this year?' And I say ' I don't come home for Christmas Mom. I have never come home for Christmas. We are not Christians. Stop trying to trick me!" Kron's family moved to Lansing, Michigan in 1965. One of the main story lines in her play ''Well'' recounts her experiences attending a predominantly African American elementary school in that city. Kron's parents sent her to the school in an effort to help integrate it. Lansing began mandatory racial integration in its schools three years later. Kron became interested in theatre at an early age. She traces her acting roots to the

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plays that she performed as a child at her

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in Lansing. In junior high she was determined to be the funniest girl that people knew. "Her avenue for that was telling humorous stories, something that everyone in her family did…"Miller She graduated from Everett High School as a valedictorian in 1979. In her senior year she attended special theater classes at Lansing School District's Academic Interest Center. An early mentor was her theater teacher at the Center, the late Robert L. Burpee. She attended

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, where she majored in theatre. At Kalamazoo College theater professor Lowry Marshall mentored her and helped her land a role with a national touring theater company. She furthered her studies at Chautauqua Professional Actors Studio and the British European Studies Group in

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Major works

Kron's major works to date are ''2.5 Minute Ride'', ''Well'', and ''Fun Home''. The first two are critically acclaimed autobiographical plays, and the third a critically acclaimed biographical musical. ''2.5 Minute Ride'' blends a trip she took with her father Walter to

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, the scene of his parents' extermination by the

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and her family's annual trip to an amusement park in Ohio. Kron says in the introduction to her play: "Humor and horror are juxtaposed and you might not know for a second whether you are at Auschwitz or at the amusement park. The show does not tell you when to laugh and when to be solemn. The response is up to you." The play recounts her father's remarkable experiences: "When my father… heard that his parents had been sent to Auschwitz, he immediately tried to order a ham sandwich, to distance himself from Judaism. But he couldn't. He'd say to the waitress, 'Um . . . tuna fish.' " Kron also reflects on looking at a poem on exhibit during their trip to Auschwitz: "I repeat the words that have undone me. 'People burn people here.'" One of the most memorable scenes in the play is when her father tells her about the death of her grandparents at Auschwitz:

"...I don't think I accepted it until a few years ago, in Lansing. It was the winter and it was so cold and I was shivering…And I realized this would only happen to them once. They were old and they stood outside, lined up in the cold and they were of no use to anyone and they were killed..."

''Well'' explores her mother Ann's experiences with social activism and illness, The play uses physical illness as a metaphor for social "illnesses" such as racism. Kron's description of ''Well'': "A multicharacter theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community." Kron describes her mother:

"My mother is a fantastically energetic person trapped in an utterly exhausted body…when she has a burst of energy it's awe inspiring. For instance, when we were very young she decided she wanted my brother and me to be raised in a racially integrated neighborhood, and then she set about to create one."

''Fun Home'' (2013) was Kron's first musical and first work based on an existing work by another artist.

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's acclaimed graphic novel/memoir ''

'' serves as the basis for the musical. Kron wrote the book and lyrics, and Tony-nominated composer

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wrote the score. It looks at the experience of cartoonist Bechdel growing up in small-town Pennsylvania as the not-yet-out lesbian daughter of a closeted gay man. All of Kron's previous works have been based on her own experiences. She discussed the process of adapting another person's work in an interview for

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The thing about adaptation is you have to re-originate a thing. You can't just say, "This is a musicalized version of this graphic novel." It has to have its own originating impulse, so that you feel like the experience you are having is the primary experience. And at the same time, you don't feel like you're watching a different thing, that whatever the effect of the book was, you'll feel like it's represented.

All three works have been very well received, ''2.5 Minute Ride'', directed by Mark Brokaw, won an Obie award among others. ''Well'' was anthologized in ''Best Plays of 2003-2004,'' listed among the year's best plays by the ''New York Times'' and received two Tony Award nominations. Ben Brantley says of ''2.5 Minute Ride'': "(it)… puts Ms. Kron on a level with sterling monologists like Spalding Gray, autobiographers who combine novelistic complexity with stage-smart impudence."Brantley, ''Laughter and Horror in a Journey of the Heart'' Michael Sommers says of ''Well'': "Truly a beautiful play in many ways, ''Well'' paints a mother-and-daughter picture of rich, unusual artistry." Of Kron's recent work, ''Fun Home,'' ''The New York Times''

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said it is "a beautiful heartbreaker of a musical," and that "Ms. Kron has already established herself as a vibrant family memoirist with her plays ''2.5 Minute Ride'' and ''Well'', and her book and resonantly precise lyrics give this show its essential spine." The first college performance of ''Well'' occurred in the winter of 2008 at

, Kron's alma mater. It starred a group of students as well as local professional actress Sharon Williams. Kron traveled to Kalamazoo for the week of the run, participating in "Lisa Kron Week in Kalamazoo" which, besides ''Well'', included a performance of the Five Lesbian Brothers' "The Secretaries" as well as a public reading in which she read excerpts from all three of her works in addition to one of the pieces she is currently working on. The world premiere of Kron's play ''In the Wake'' opened at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles on March 28, 2010.

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(who also directed ''Well'') directed. The play is about a family gathering set just after the presidential election of 2000. The main protagonist Ellen deals with the political turmoil as well as upheaval in her personal life. Charlotte Stoudt describes ''In the Wake'': "Kron's comedy of deprecation and provocative social critique is part Sedaris, part Kushner, yet utterly her own."

Career in theatre

Kron's works are humorous and poignant looks at life by someone who has often described herself an outsider. Her experiences as a Jewish woman living in a predominantly Christian

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city or life as a

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working in traditional theatre provide rich material for her plays. Her reflections from the outside looking in are insightful but not bitter. The critic Ben Brantley says of her: "…there is never condescension in her humor. It is simply a crucial part of her navigational equipment in finding her way through life's absurd course of non sequiturs." She describes her creative process in her usual humorous and self-deprecating way: "I wish I had more of a technique for constructing these things. I keep banging my head against the wall until it pops through on the other side…" She arrived in

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in 1984. She worked as an office temp and various other jobs while pursuing an acting career. Some of her adventures during her early days in New York are chronicled in her play ''101 Humiliating Stories''. She was soon performing at the

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, a creative venue for women in the performing arts in the

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. In 1989 Kron, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy founded the theater company

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. The group writes and performs witty satiric works from a feminist and lesbian perspective. "Five Lesbian Brothers was chosen, in part, to refute the perception of lesbian theatre as combative and didactic." Their plays have been produced by the

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, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the WOW Cafe Theatre and others. The Brothers have also toured all over the United States. The Brothers have won the

as well as other awards and have published ''The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life'' and ''Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays''. She also would star in

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's 1998 play '' The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told'' playing a multitude of characters, one of her most memorable, according to

, was as Rabbi Sharon, a lesbian wheelchair bound rabbi. Kron developed stories about her family into autobiographical plays and performed them in New York and London. Her work was critically well received. ''New York Times'' critic Ben Brantley said in his review: "…Fans of that beleaguered literary form, the memoir, can breathe a little more easily this morning. Kron's sparkling autobiographical play ''Well'' has arrived on Broadway…to restore the honor of a genre that was slipping into disgrace... ''Well'' opened on

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March 10, 2006, to critical acclaim and received two Tony nominations. Kron was nominated for Actress in a Play and Jayne Houdyshell was nominated for Featured Actress in a Play. In spite of good reviews, ''Well'' had low attendance and closed on May 14, 2006. It has since been performed in

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in 2007. While Kron's musical ''Fun Home'' was having its premiere run at

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, Kron was simultaneously performing in a production of ''Good Person of Szechwan'' at the same theater. Kron's unusual experience of working on the final touches of one play as a writer while rehearsing to act in another was discussed in a ''New York Times'' article "A Quick Trip From Playwright to Player, Lisa Kron Juggles Two Shows at Public Theater." Kron received the 27th Annual Kleban Prize in 2017 for the most promising musical theatre librettist; the award includes a $100,000 prize.Viagas, Robert
" 'Fun Home' Librettist Wins Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre"
Playbill, January 17, 2017

Personal life

Kron has lived in New York City since 1984 and is a full-time actress. She also teaches playwriting part-time at

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and

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. She is married to fellow

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-nominated playwright

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. She is a lesbian.

Selected theatre performances

* ''All My Hopes and Dreams'' Performance Space 122 New York 1989-91 * ''Voyage to Lesbos'' WOW Café New York 1990 * ''Brave Smiles'' WOW Café New York 1991 * ''Facing Life's Problems'' Performance Space 122 New York 1991 * ''101 Humiliating Stories'' Performance Space 122; Serious Fun! at Lincoln Center New York 1993-95 * ''The Secretaries'' Theatre Rhinoceros, New York Theatre Workshop 1994 * ''Brides of the Moon'' Theatre Rhinoceros, New York Theatre Workshop 1996 * ''2.5 Minute Ride'' La Jolla Playhouse, (premiere)1996 * ''2.5 Minute Ride'' The Barbican Theatre London, 1998 * ''2.5 Minute Ride'' American Repertory Theatre, Boston, 1998 * ''2.5 Minute Ride'' Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 1999 * ''

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'' Public Theater, New York City, Spring 2004 * ''Well'' Longacre Theater on Broadway, New York City 2006 * ''2.5 Minute Ride'' Anchorage 2006 * ''Well'' The Huntington Theatre Boston 2007 * ''Spain'' MCC Theater New York City October 2007 * ''Time is the Mercy of Eternity'' West End Theater New York City April 2008 * ''In the Wake''

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, (premiere) May 2010 * ''

New York City, (premiere) October 2013 * ''Fun Home''

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, New York City, 2015

Selected works

* ''The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life'' by the Five Lesbian Brothers, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. * ''Oedipus at Palm Springs'' – a "Five Lesbian Brothers play" with Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell and Peg Healey (2010). Samuel French. * ''2.5 Minute Ride and 101 Humiliating Stories'', New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2001. * ''Voyage to Lesbos'' in ''Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays'', New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2000. * ''Well'', New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2006.

Selected anthologies

* ''Brave Smiles'' by the Five Lesbian Brothers, ''The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays'', Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, eds. New York: Penguin, 1995 * ''Cast Out: Queer Lives In Theater'' Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2006 * ''Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century'' New York: Theatre Communications Group 2000 * ''Out Of Character: Rants, Raves, And Monologues From Today's Top Performance Artists'' New York : Bantam Books 1997 , * ''2.5 Minute Ride'' in ''Talk to Me: Monologue Plays'' New York : Vintage Books 2004 * ''Voyage to Lesbos'' in ''Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays'' New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2000 * ''Well'' in The ''Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2003-2004'' New York : Limelight Editions, c2005.

Articles written

"Lithe I'm Not. And Trained I'm Not. But I Danced.

'New York Times'', December 12, 1999.

Audiobooks

''2.5 Minute Ride'' BRIDGED(Audio CD) New Millennium Audio; Abridged edition 2001

Awards and fellowships

''2.5 Minute Ride''

* Los Angeles Dramalogue Award * Obie Award * 2000 GLAAD Media Award

''Well''

* Listed among the year's best plays by the ''New York Times'', the Associated Press, the ''Newark Star Ledger'', ''Backstage'' and the ''Advocate'' * Part of the 2004 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab

''Fun Home''

* 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist for ''Fun Home'' * 2014 Obie Award for ''Fun Home'' * 2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score (shared with

, making them the first female writing team to win that award'Fun Home' songwriters become 1st winning female team
Yahoo News) * 2015

Other

* 1993 New York Dance and Performance Award

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with The Five Lesbian Brothers * 1994 Robert Chesley Gay and Lesbian Playwriting Award * 1994

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fellowship in playwriting * 1995 Obie Award for ''The Secretaries'' with The Five Lesbian Brothers * 1997 Cal Arts/Alpert Award * 2000

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Foundation Grant * 2000 NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights * 2000 NEA/TCG playwriting fellowship * 2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award,

* 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts grant * 2005

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* 2007 The Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrighting Fellowship * 2008 Chosen to participate in the 2008

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Theatre Lab * 2008

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Fellowship * 2011 Lilly Award for ''In the Wake'' * 2017

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Prize for most promising musical theatre librettist

Awards nominated

''101 Humiliating Stories''

* Drama Desk nomination in solo performance

''2.5 Minute Ride''

* Outer Critics Circle Award * L.A. Drama-Logue Award * Drama Desk nomination in solo performance * Outer Critics Circle nomination in solo performance * 1999 New York Press Award for Best Autobiographical Solo Show

''Well''

* Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play * Tony Award for Best Best Featured Actress in a Play * 2004 Drama League Nomination * 2004 Outer Critics Circle Best Play nomination

Other

* 1994 Nomination for Drama Desk Award in Solo Performance

Television and film performances

* ''Cater-Waiter'' 1996 * ''

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: "''Atonement" 1996 CSU Warren *''Law & Order:'' "Trophy" 1996 CSU Warren * ''Law & Order: "''Disciple" 1999 CSU Technician Andrews * ''

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:'' "Family History" 2002 Nooch * ''

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'' 2005 Paramedic #2 * ''

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'' 2008 Receptionist * ''

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'' 2008 Junior's Waitress

Quotes

"Bizarre Murder!! Lesbian Forces Blind Holocaust Victim on Roller Coaster!" - ''2.5 Minute Ride And 101 Humiliating Stories'' "…Judaism, you know, is viewed in the Midwest as kind of an accessory that you wear on top of your Christianity." ''- Well'' "I come from a family with a deep distrust of the body. I believe my family would have their bodies surgically removed from their heads if they could figure out a way to still get to the mall." - "Lithe I'm Not. And Trained I'm Not. But I Danced''."''

References

Sources

* Brantley, Ben. ''Laughter And Horror In a Journey of the Heart'

The New York Times March 29, 1999 * Brantley, Ben. ''Lisa Kron's 'Well' Opens on Broadway, With Mom Keeping Watch.'

The New York Times. March 31, 2006 * Drukman, Steven. ''70 Minutes on an Emotional Roller-Coaster: A Solo Journey from Ohio to Auschwitz.'

''New York Times'' March 28, 1999 * Five Lesbian Brothers. ''The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life'' New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. * Five Lesbian Brothers. ''Four Plays'' New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2000. * Hughes, Mike. ''Westside Stories''. ''Lansing State Journal'' April 27, 2004 * Kron, Lisa. ''2.5 Minute Ride And 101 Humiliating Stories'' New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2001. * Kron, Lisa. ''Well'' New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2006. * Lester, Gideon. "Journey of a Lifetime"

* Miller, Stuart. "Playwright Draws from a Personal ''Well''." ''The Star-Ledger'', Newark: New Jersey March 26, 2006 * Miller, Winter. "In Dialogue: All's Well That Ends in ''Well'': Lisa Kron and Leigh Silverman." ''

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'', April 2006

* Sommers, Michael. ""Well" Written, "Well" Staged, "Well" Acted." ''The Star-Ledger'', Newark: NJ March 31, 2006 * Weisman, Wendy. "The Importance of Being Lisa Kron: In ''Well'', She Plays Herself Writing A Play About Herself. Will Broadway Get It?"

''American Theatre'' March 2006 * WOW Caf�

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''2.5 Minute Ride''

''Well''

''Fun Home''

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''101 Humiliating Stories''

''2.5 Minute Ride''

''Well''

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