Lisa Kron has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1983. She received 2015 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score for Fun Home as well as a 2014 Obie Award. Fun Home was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. Her other plays include Well, (2006 Best Actress Tony nom., included in “Best Plays of 2003-2004”); 2.5 Minute Ride (Obie, L.A. Drama-Logue, GLAAD Media Awards); In The Wake (Lilly Award, included in “Best Plays of 2010-2011”); The Ver**zon Play (2011 Humana Festival). Most recent acting: Mrs. Mi-Tzu and Mrs. Yang in the Foundry Theater’s acclaimed production of Good Person of Szechuan (Lortel Award-Outstanding Featured Actress). Honors include Guggenheim, Sundance, Lark, and MacDowell fellowships, a Doris Duke Performing Artists Award, a Cal Arts/Alpert Award, ANVPI residency at Arena Stage, the Helen Merrill Award, and grants from the Creative Capital and NYFA. She is a proud founding member of the legendary OBIE and Bessie-Award-winning collaborative theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. She serves on the boards of the MacDowell Colony and the Lilly Awards, and on the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America.