Lisa Kron – författare

WINNER! Best Musical - 2015 Tony Awards!WINNER! Best Score (Jeanine Tesori & Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony Awards!WINNER! Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony Awards!WINNER! BEST MUSICAL - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Obie Award Lucille Lortel Award Outer Critics Circle Award Off-Broadway Alliance AwardFINALIST! The Pulitzer Prize for DramaWhen her father dies unexpectedly graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile brilliant one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family's Bechdel Funeral Home her growing understanding of her own sexuality and the looming unanswerable questions about her father's hidden desires. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

This book collects Lisa Kron''s two extraordinary solo performance works. Best known for her ongoing work as a member of The Five Lesbian Brothers, Kron''s solo pieces are very personal examinations of both herself and her family history. This is singularly clear in 2.5 Minute Ride, where her writing deftly maneuvers between the tragic drama of the Holocaust and the wry comedy of her family''s attempts to pursue pleasure at the local amusement park. This critically acclaimed work played to sold out audience for over six months at New York''s Public Theatre. Also included is the riotous 101 Humiliating Stories, which first premiered in 1993, and in fact only consists of seventeen tales but each, as the author observes, has several humiliations. It recounts the adventures and misadventures of a self-described Big Lesbian as she tests the boundaries of decorum in social and professional situations.