Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May , ) is an American actress and
playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the
musical Fun Home for which she won both the Tony Award for Best
Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Fun Home
was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in and the Obie
Award for writing for musical theater.Kron was born in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. 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 . Ann is a former
antiques dealer and community activist. In the s 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.Her father is
Walter Kron, a retired lawyer born in Germany in . He was born to a
Jewish family, and is a Holocaust survivor. In 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 s Kron and her father visited Auschwitz, where he believed his
parents were murdered by the Nazis in the s. She later found out that
her father's parents were actually killed in Chelmno.
playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the
musical Fun Home for which she won both the Tony Award for Best
Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Fun Home
was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in and the Obie
Award for writing for musical theater.Kron was born in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. 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 . Ann is a former
antiques dealer and community activist. In the s 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.Her father is
Walter Kron, a retired lawyer born in Germany in . He was born to a
Jewish family, and is a Holocaust survivor. In 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 s Kron and her father visited Auschwitz, where he believed his
parents were murdered by the Nazis in the s. She later found out that
her father's parents were actually killed in Chelmno.
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