Lisa Kron
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Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May 20, 1961) is an America
n actress and playwright
.
. 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 Lansing, Michigan
. In a time when neighborhood segregation was the norm, the WNO helped to bring people from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds together. Ann converted to Judaism
when she married Lisa’s father Walter Kron.
Her father is Walter Kron, a retired lawyer born in Germany in 1922. He is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor. In 1937 as the Nazi persecution of the Jews escalated, his parents sent him out of Germany via the Kindertransport
program. He went back to Germany after World War II
, serving as a US army interrogator of Nazi war criminals. In the 1990s Lisa and her father visited Auschwitz where his parents were murdered by the Nazis in the 1940s.
Her brother is David Kron, born in 1964. 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 Lisa 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 Christian
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!"
Lisa’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. Lisa’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.
Lisa became interested in theatre at an early age. She traces her acting roots to the Purim
plays that she performed as a child at her synagogue
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…”
She graduated from Everett High School (Michigan)
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 Kalamazoo College
, 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 London
.
. Both are critically acclaimed autobiographical plays. 2.5 Minute Ride blends a trip she took with her father Walter to Auschwitz, the scene of his parents extermination by the Nazis and her family’s annual trip to an amusement park in Ohio. Lisa 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:
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. Lisa’s description of Well: “A multicharacter theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community.” Lisa describes her mother:
Both works have been very well received, 2.5 Minute Ride 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.” Michael Sommers says of Well: “Truly a beautiful play in many ways, Well paints a mother-and-daughter picture of rich, unusual artistry.”
The first college performance of Well occurred in the winter of 2008 at Kalamazoo College
, Lisa's alma mater. It starred a group of students as well as local professional actress Sharon Williams. Lisa 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 Lisa's play In the Wake opened at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles March 28, 2010. Leigh Silverman (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."
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 New York City
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 WOW Cafe,http://wowcafe.org/ a creative venue for women in the performing arts in the East Village, Manhattan
.
In 1989 Lisa, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy founded the theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. 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 New York Theatre Workshop
, 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 Obie Award
as well as other awards and have published The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life and Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays
Lisa 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. Lisa 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 Broadway
March 10, 2006, to critical acclaim and received two Tony nominations. Lisa 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 Boston
in 2007.
at the Apollo Theatre
from December 29, 2008 to January 24, 2009. The production features Sarah Miles
as Ann Kron and Natalie Casey
as Lisa Kron.
“…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.
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n actress and playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
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Biography
Kron was born in Ann Arbor, MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
. 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 Lansing, Michigan
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...
. In a time when neighborhood segregation was the norm, the WNO helped to bring people from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds together. Ann converted to Judaism
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
when she married Lisa’s father Walter Kron.
Her father is Walter Kron, a retired lawyer born in Germany in 1922. He is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor. In 1937 as the Nazi persecution of the Jews escalated, his parents sent him out of Germany via the Kindertransport
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is the name given to the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig...
program. He went back to Germany after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, serving as a US army interrogator of Nazi war criminals. In the 1990s Lisa and her father visited Auschwitz where his parents were murdered by the Nazis in the 1940s.
Her brother is David Kron, born in 1964. 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 Lisa 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 Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
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!"
Lisa’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. Lisa’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.
Lisa became interested in theatre at an early age. She traces her acting roots to the Purim
Purim
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther .Purim is celebrated annually according to the Hebrew calendar on the 14th...
plays that she performed as a child at her synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
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…”
She graduated from Everett High School (Michigan)
Everett High School (Michigan)
Everett High School is a public high school located on the south side of Lansing, Michigan. It is currently the music and performing arts magnet school for the Lansing School District....
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 Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country. Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U.S...
, 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 London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Major works
Lisa Kron's major works to date are 2.5 Minute Ride and WellWell (play)
Well is a play about illness written by and starring Lisa Kron. Well made its world premier at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York City in 2004. The play was directed by Leigh Silverman and also starred Jayne Houdyshell as Lisa's mother, Ann Kron. The Public Theater production garnered...
. Both are critically acclaimed autobiographical plays. 2.5 Minute Ride blends a trip she took with her father Walter to Auschwitz, the scene of his parents extermination by the Nazis and her family’s annual trip to an amusement park in Ohio. Lisa 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:
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. Lisa’s description of Well: “A multicharacter theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community.” Lisa describes her mother:
Both works have been very well received, 2.5 Minute Ride 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.” Michael Sommers says of Well: “Truly a beautiful play in many ways, Well paints a mother-and-daughter picture of rich, unusual artistry.”
The first college performance of Well occurred in the winter of 2008 at Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country. Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U.S...
, Lisa's alma mater. It starred a group of students as well as local professional actress Sharon Williams. Lisa 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 Lisa's play In the Wake opened at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles March 28, 2010. Leigh Silverman (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
Lisa’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 Midwestern city or life as a lesbianLesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
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 New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
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 WOW Cafe,http://wowcafe.org/ a creative venue for women in the performing arts in the East Village, Manhattan
East Village, Manhattan
The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, lying east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side...
.
In 1989 Lisa, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy founded the theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. 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 New York Theatre Workshop
New York Theatre Workshop
__notoc__New York Theatre Workshop is an Off-Broadway theatre noted for its productions of new works. Located at 79 East 4th Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, it houses a 198-seat theatre for its mainstage productions, and a...
, 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 Obie Award
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
as well as other awards and have published The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life and Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays
Lisa 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. Lisa 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 Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
March 10, 2006, to critical acclaim and received two Tony nominations. Lisa 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 Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
in 2007.
Personal life
Lisa has lived in New York City since 1984 and is a full time actress. She also teaches playwriting part-time at Yale University.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
- Well 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
Selected works
- The Five Lesbian Brothers' Guide to Life by the Five Lesbian Brothers, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 978-0684813844
- 2.5 Minute Ride and 101 Humiliating Stories New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2001. ISBN 978-1559361811
- Voyage to Lesbos in Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2000. ISBN 1559361662
- Well New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2006. ISBN 978-1559362535
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 ISBN 978-0140245523
- Cast Out : Queer Lives In Theater Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2006 ISBN 9780472099337
- Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century New York: Theatre Communications Group 2000 ISBN 1559361557
- Out Of Character : Rants, Raves, And Monologues From Today's Top Performance Artists New York : Bantam Books 1997 ISBN 0553374850 9780553374858
- 2.5 Minute Ride in Talk to Me : Monologue Plays New York : Vintage Books 2004 ISBN 9781400076154
- Voyage to Lesbos in Five Lesbian Brothers Four Plays New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2000 ISBN 1559361662
- Well In The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2003-2004 New York : Limelight Editions, c2005. ISBN 9780879103156
Articles Written
Lithe I'm Not. And Trained I'm Not. But I Danced.http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E0D6113EF931A25751C1A96F958260New York Times, December 12, 1999.Audiobooks
2.5 Minute Ride [ABRIDGED] (Audio CD) New Millennium Audio; Abridged edition 2001 ISBN 978-1931056250Well
- 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
Other
- 1993 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) with The Five Lesbian Brothers
- 1994 Robert Chesley Gay and Lesbian Playwriting Award
- 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in playwriting
- 1995 Obie Award for The Secretaries with The Five Lesbian Brothers
- 1997 Cal Arts/Alpert Award
- 2000 Creative Capital Foundation Grant
- 2000 NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights
- 2000 NEA/TCG playwriting fellowship
- 2003 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kalamazoo College
- 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts grant
- 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2007 The Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrighting Fellowship
- 2008 Chosen to participate in the 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab
- 2008 Lark Play Development CenterLark Play Development CenterThe Lark Play Development Center is a non-profit organization that seeks to help playwrights improve and produce their plays. Headquartered in Manhattan, New York they function in countries throughout the world.- History :...
Fellowship
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
- Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award Best Actress-Play
- Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award Best Featured Actress-Play
- 2004 Drama League Nomination
- 2004 Outer Critics Circle Best Play nomination
Television and Movie Performances
- Cater-Waiter 1996
- Law and Order: Atonement 1996 CSU Warren
- Law and Order: Disciple 1999 CSU Technician Andrews
- Law and Order: Trophy 1996 CSU Warren
- Strong Medicine: Family History 2002 Nooch
- Stay 2005 Paramedic #2
- Deception 2008 Receptionist
- Sex and the City 2008 Junior's Waitress
News
Well will be performed in London's West End TheatreWest End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
at the Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
from December 29, 2008 to January 24, 2009. The production features Sarah Miles
Sarah Miles
-Early life and career:Sarah Miles was born in the small town of Ingatestone, Essex, in South East England.She first attended Roedean but at the age of 15 she enrolled at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
as Ann Kron and Natalie Casey
Natalie Casey
Natalie Casey is an English actress, television presenter and singer. She is best known for her long running roles playing Carol Groves in the TV series Hollyoaks from 1995 to 2000 and playing Donna Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps from 2001 to 2011...
as Lisa Kron.
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.
Further reading
- Glickman, Ken. Theater Review: Well. Lansing State Journal April 27, 2006
- Green, Jesse. One-Woman Show Learns to Share. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E5DE1431F932A15750C0A9629C8B63New York Times March 21, 2004
- Nightingale, Benedict. Story Tells Vivid Picture. The Times London July 23, 1998
External links
- Lisa Kron's official site http://www.lisakron.com/
- Well in the Internet Broadway Database http://www.ibdb.com/show.asp?id=406664