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"I've always used mate-
rial from my own life as
I explored themes and
mechanisms of human
nature and ideas," Kron
says. "Someone
once asked me the differ-
ence between therapy and
autobiographical theater,
and I said that therapy is
about a person, and autobi-
ographical theater is about
an audience?'
. As Kron was growing
up in Lansing, she had no
conscious sense that she
wanted to be a writer or a
performer. Looking back,
she realizes that unknow-
ingly she was moving
toward those goals.
"I went to Kalamazoo
College and did everything
that I could to tell myself I
wasn't going to be a theater
major',' she recalls. "When
I was a junior and told to
declare a major, all my credits were in
theater so I declared a theater major.
"Thanks to the woman who ran the
theater department, I ended up getting
a professional acting job right out of
college. Then I moved to New York and
wandered around until I found my
way into the performance art world.
I started to throw myself on stage
unprepared. I had a life in theater
before I acknowledged that I wanted a
life in theater."
Kron developed her stage skills
by appearing in New York produc-
tions of The Normal Heart, The
Vagina Monologues and The Most
Fabulous Story Ever Told. Her
creative energies were put into writ-
ing 101 Humiliating Stori6 and
Martha, which she co-wrote with and
for Richard Move, a choreographer
and performer.
Kron is a founding member of the
theater company the Five Lesbian
Brothers, with its most recent play,
Oedipus at Palm Springs, directed
by Leigh Silverman, director of Well.

Jewish Identity

"My being gay wasn't what my parents
expected, and they had to adjust to
it," Kron says. "My parents adore the
partner I had for 18 years, and we
were totally integrated into both of our
families. We are no longer partners,
but we're still very close
Judaism remains important in
Kron's life. When she was living in
Lansing, she attended services and

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programs at Kehillat Israel and was
a member of Young Judaea. She cur-
rently belongs to B'nai Jeshurun in
Manhattan, where her father has
joined her for services on the High
Holidays.
"Actual practice is not as central as
it was when I was a kid, but Judaism is
absolutely central to my identity',' she
says. "One of the things my father and
mother stressed is the value of being
an outsider and being different. I talk
about that in terms of being Jewish in
Lansing."
Kron, whose brother David works
as a theater sound technician, has
won formal recognition through an
OBIE Award, Cal Arts/Alpert Award
in Theater and a Creative Capital
Foundation Grant. She has no new
project in mind as Well currently con-
sumes all her time.
"In the process of working on Well,
I felt I had a responsibility toward my
mother because I was putting her in
the uncomfortable position of making
a fictionalized character based on her','
Kron says. "My responsibility was to
talk to her about what that experience
was, and I think we had a lot of inter-
esting conversations along the way."

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