Lisa Kron

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Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May 20, 1961) is an American actress and playwright.

She is best known for writing the scripts and book to the musical Fun Home, for which she received both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

In 2015 and the 2014 Obie Award for writing for musical theater, Fun Home was also recognized.

Early life

Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "I was born in Venice," she says in one of her plays. (Well, not in Venice) Well, not exactly in Venice, but in Mestra, a nearby town, where hotels are a lot cheaper.

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Ann Krone is a child of 1932. Ann is a retired antiques dealer and community activist. In the 1960s, she founded the Westside Neighborhood Association in Lansing, Michigan. The WNO helped bring people from various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds together in a time when neighborhood segregation was common. Ann converted to Judaism after she married Lisa's father.

Walter Kron, a retired lawyer who was born in Germany in 1922, is her father. He was born to a Jewish family and is a Holocaust survivor. As the Nazi persecution of Jews grew, his parents took him out of Germany through the Kindertransport service in 1937. After World War II, he returned to Germany and served as a US army interrogator of Nazi war criminals. Kron and her father visited Auschwitz, where he believes his parents were murdered by the Nazis in the 1940s. She later found out that her father's parents had been killed in Chelmno.

David Kron, her brother, was born in 1963. He is a sound engineer and married with a son. "She is very funny, with a sarcastic wit...She always had her own way of seeing life," he says of his sister.

Well Kron claims she felt like an outsider even in her own family because she, her parents, and her brother David were the only Jews in her family. Her maternal family is Catholic, and no one of her Jewish paternal families survived the Holocaust. When she remembers her mother's begged for Christmas this year, she talks about this ingenuity.' And I'm not home for Christmas Eve.' I've never been home for Christmas. We are not Christians.

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In 1965, Kron's family moved to Lansing, Michigan. Well tells her story Well, one of the main plot lines in her play Well describes her experience as a principal African American elementary school in that city. In an attempt to help integrate it, Kron's parents sent her to the school in an effort to help integrate it. Lansing's schools were required to have racial integration three years ago.

Kron became involved in theatre at an early age. She traces her acting roots back to the Purim plays in which she appeared as an infant at her synagogue in Lansing. She was determined to be the funniest girl that people knew in junior high. "Her only hope was to tell amusing stories, which no one in her family did."

In 1979, she graduated from Everett High School as a valedictorian. She took special theater lessons at the Academic Interest Center of Lansing School District in her senior year. The late Robert L. Burpee, a young mentor at the Center, was her theater coach at the Center.

She studied at Kalamazoo College, where she majored in theatre. Lowry Marshall, a Kalamazoo College theater professor, mentored her and offered her a national touring theater company.

She continued her studies at the Chautauqua Professional Actors Studio and the British European Studies Group in London.

Personal life

Kron has lived in New York City since 1984 and is a full-time actor. She teaches playwriting at Yale University and New York University as part of the Yale University and New York University. Madeleine George, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright, is married to her partner. She is a lesbian.

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Career in theatre

Kron's works are a satisfaction and moving glimpse at life by someone who has often referred to herself as an outsider. Her experiences as a Jewish woman living in a predominantly Christian Midwestern city or as a lesbian actress working in traditional theatre provide rich material for her productions. Her observations from the outside looking in are insightful but not bitter. "There is never condescension in her comedy," Ben Brantley says of her. It's just a key piece of her navigational aid in navigating life's bizarre path of non sequiturs."

"I wish I had more of a strategy for making these things," she describes her creative process in a comedic and self-deprecating manner. "I keep banging my head against the wall until it appears on the other side."

In 1984, she first arrived in New York City. When she first started pursuing an acting career, she worked as an office temp and other admin jobs. In her play 101 Humiliating Stories, she chronicles some of her adventures in New York's early days. She appeared in the East Village, Manhattan, shortly at the WOW Cafe, a creative space for women in the performing arts.

The Five Lesbian Brothers, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, and Babs Davy founded the company in 1989. The group produces and performs sarcastic satiric works from a feminist and lesbian perspective. "Five Lesbian Brothers were chosen, in part, to debunk the assumption of lesbian theatre as combative and didactic." The New York Theatre Workshop, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the WOW Cafe Theatre, and others have all performed their plays. The Brothers have toured all around the country. The Brothers have received the Obie Award as well as other accolades, and they have published The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life and Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays.

Rabbi Sharon, a lesbian wheelchair bound rabbi, will also appear in Paul Rudnick's 1998 play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, a variety of characters, and one of her most memorable, according to Ben Brantley, was as Rabbi Sharon, a lesbian wheelchair bound rabbi.

Kron converted family tales into autobiographical plays and performed them in New York and London. Her work had been highly regarded in the media. In his review, New York Times critic Ben Brantley said: "Fans of the beleaguered literary style, the memoir, will breathe a little more comfortably this morning." Well has arrived on Broadway to restore the dignity of a genre that had been slipping into disgrace... Well, Wells has opened on Broadway on March 10, 2006 to critical acclaim and two Tony Awards. In a Play, Kron was nominated for Actress in a Play, and Jayne Houdyshell was nominated for Featured Actress in a Play. Despite good reviews, Well Farwell's attendance dropped and the company closed on May 14, 2006. It was first performed in Boston in 2007.

Kron's musical Fun Home was on sale at The Public Theater for the first time, but Kron was also appearing in a Good Person of Szechwan production at the same theater. In a New York Times article "A Quick Trip From Playwright to Player," Kron Juggles' transformation from writer to actor in one of his plays was discussed.

In 2017, Kron received the Annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist; the award also includes a $100,000 cash prize.

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