Lisa Kron wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Fun Home in collaboration with composer Jeanine Tesori. The production won five Tony Awards in 2015, including Best Book, Best Original Score, and Best Musical, and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Kron’s other plays include In The Wake, Well, and the Obie Award winning 2.5 Minute Ride.
She received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in Well and a Lortel Award for her turn in Foundry Theater’s acclaimed production of Good Person of Szechuan. Other honors include: Guggenheim, Sundance, and MacDowell fellowships, a Doris Duke Performing Artists Award, Cal Arts/Alpert Award and the Kleban Prize. She is a founding member of the OBIE- and Bessie-Award-winning collaborative theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers and serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America.
At MacDowell in 2014, Kron began work on a play commissioned in 2007 by the Sloan Foundation. During her 2025 residency, she worked in collaboration with Jeanine Tesori on a new musical based on Jonathan Ned Katz’s biography of the early 20th century radical lesbian activist Eve Adams.
