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LISA KRON |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
Lisa Kron has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Her play, Well, opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theater in March of 2006 and received two Tony nominations. It premiered at the Public Theater in Spring 2004 and was listed among the year's best plays by the New York Times, theAssociated Press, the Newark Star Ledger, Backstage and the Advocate. Her play, 2.5 Minute Ride premiered in New York at the Public Theater in 1999 and received an OBIE Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations, an L.A. Drama-Logue Award, a GLAAD Media Award and was named the best autobiographical show by New York Press. Ms. Kron is also a founding member of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. She is the recipient the Cal Arts/Alpert Award, as well as grants and fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, NEA/TCG, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
Plays by Lisa Kron
101 Most Humiliating Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | Perry Street Theatre, Off Broadway, NY | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "2.5 Minute Ride", TCG, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19752 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Lisa talks about all the humiliating things that have happened to her at High School, at the office and on the stage. | |||||
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25 Minute Ride | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, La Jolla, CA | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "2.5 Minute Ride", TCG, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19753 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | To get closer to her father Lisa takes him to see Auschwitz where his parents died. She even goes on his favourite roller coaster. | |||||
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Brave Smiles. . . Another Lesbian Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69703-6 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122505 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | A Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | |||||
| In Brave Smiles. . .Another Lesbian Tragedy, master satirists the Five Lesbian Brothers turn their merciless eyes on the history of lesbians in theater, film, and literature. From their dismal yet erotically charged beginnings at the orphanage under the grip of a sadistic headmistress, our five heroines cross continents and a century to face their absurdly tragic ends. Along the way, they experience alcoholism, suicide, loneliness, pill popping, blacklisting, and a malignant brain tumor. Students of the lesbian art of misery will recognize gleeful skewerings of The Well of Loneliness, The Group, Maedchen in Uniform, and The Children's Hour in this rollicking, hilarious, and smart multicharacter classic. | |||||
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Brides of the Moon | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Workshop, Off Broadway, NY | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49139 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | A Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | |||||
Synopsis: | In this sci-fi sex comedy from razor-sharp satirists The Five Lesbian Brothers, a group of female astronauts in the year find themselves adrift in space when a discarded Winnebago crashes into the ship's hull. When their programmed sexual urges are accidentally triggered, the ship becomes a Sapphic love boat. To make matters worse, the only person who can save them is a dotty housewife back on Earth with an unexpected past. A bawdy, distopic comedy that surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection. | |||||
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Caution: Parents May Be Less Insane Than They Appear | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Slant Theater Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78282 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
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Notes: | Originally performed under the overall title "Obstruction Plays" with five other plays. | |||||
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In the Wake | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater | 01 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120414 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don't understand how bad the situation really is. But no onenot her loving partner, Danny, nor the passionate Amy, nor the brutally pragmatic and world-weary Judycan make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life. A funny, passionate, and ultimately searing new play that illuminates assumptions that lie at the heart of the American characterand the blind spots that mask us from ourselves. | |||||
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Neon Mirage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | The 2006 Apprentice Company from Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56603 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Musical Musical | |||||
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Notes: | written by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Julie Jenson, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson and Chay Yew, Music and Lyrics by Rick Hip Flores. VENUE 5: Henry Street Settlement - Harry de Jur Playhouse | |||||
Synopsis: | 38 million people visit Las Vegas every year for the glitz, the tits and the gold. But what's it like to live and work in America's Disneyland for grown-ups? Could you tell what's real and what's just a mirage? | |||||
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Oedipus at Palm Springs | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Workshop | Jul 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69702-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122506 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | A Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | |||||
| Irreverent theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers get their greasy prints on a classic. Oedipus at Palm Springs follows the dark adventure of two couples on a retreat to the desert resort town. While new parents Fran and Con try desperately to jump-start their sex life, May-December love bunnies Prin and Terri can't keep their hands off each other. What begins as a hilarious, boozey weekend takes a horrific turn after a secret is revealed. Two parts comedy with a shot of tragedy shaken over ice, Oedipus at Palm Springs is a brave examination of the messy guts of relationships. | |||||
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Secretaries, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69701-2 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122507 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 10m Comedy Spoken Word/Poetry Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | A Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | |||||
| If Russ Mayer and John Carpenter were characters on The L Word, had a baby and moved to Stepford, perhaps that child would dream up this play. Luckily, such a fantastic turn of events is unnecessary, as the Five Lesbian Brothers have already undertaken this feat in writing The Secretaries. The play bridges the gaps between hilarious and horrifying as the slim-fast slurping secretaries at Coony Lumber Mill in Big Bone, Oregon, induct Patty, the new girl, into their ritualistic world of female empowerment. They count their calories, workout till it hurts, and dress to impress. They wear their hair big and their heels high. They work together and play together and once a month they slaughter a lumberjack together | |||||
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Voyage To Lesbos | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122508 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | A Five Lesbian Brothers play written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | |||||
Synopsis: | The maiden effort from legendary theater troupe the Five Lesbian Brothers, Voyage to Lesbos takes a darkly humorous look at the warping effects of internalized homophobia and phallo-centrism on the lesbian psyche. The action takes place in Lesbos, Illinois, in a vaguely defined pre-Stonewall, post-Freudian period of American culture. The occasion is Bonnie's wedding day. Five inextricably intertwined women ostensibly prepare for the happy event, while their every action serves to sabotage it. Highlights include several rousing musical numbers and a jerk-off session between the cousins, Bonnie and Connie, involving banal heterosexual fantasy and a vacuum cleaner. Ever treading on thin ice, Voyage to Lesbos laughs so that it does not cry. | |||||
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Well | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall, Off Broadway, NY | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49140 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Well opens with Lisa Kron's mother sitting on a La-Z-Boy recliner in the middle of the stage. As the play goes on to deal with Kron's personal experience of healing, a comedic coup d'etat breaks out. The actors critique the script, her memories conflict with her flashbacks, her mother interrupts with her own opinions, and Kron finds herself in danger of losing control | |||||
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