In a time when neighborhood segregation was the norm, the WNO helped to bring people from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds together.

"[4] In her play Well Kron says that she felt like an outsider even in her own family because she, her parents and her brother David were the only Jews.

One of the main story lines in her play Well recounts her experiences attending a predominantly African American elementary school in that city.

"Her avenue for that was telling humorous stories, something that everyone in her family did…"[5] She graduated from Everett High School as a valedictorian in 1979.

In her senior year she attended special theater classes at Lansing School District's Academic Interest Center.

Kron says in the introduction to her play: "Humor and horror are juxtaposed and you might not know for a second whether you are at Auschwitz or at the amusement park.

"[2]: xiv The play recounts her father's remarkable experiences: "When my father… heard that his parents had been sent to Auschwitz, he immediately tried to order a ham sandwich, to distance himself from Judaism.

'"[6] Kron also reflects on looking at a poem on exhibit during their trip to Auschwitz: "I repeat the words that have undone me.

Kron's description of Well: "A multicharacter theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community.

For instance, when we were very young she decided she wanted my brother and me to be raised in a racially integrated neighborhood, and then she set about to create one.

It looks at the experience of cartoonist Bechdel growing up in small-town Pennsylvania as the not-yet-out lesbian daughter of a closeted gay man.

Ben Brantley says of 2.5 Minute Ride: "(it)… puts Ms. Kron on a level with sterling monologists like Spalding Gray, autobiographers who combine novelistic complexity with stage-smart impudence.

"[9] Michael Sommers says of Well: "Truly a beautiful play in many ways, Well paints a mother-and-daughter picture of rich, unusual artistry.

"[10] Of Kron's recent work, Fun Home, The New York Times' Ben Brantley said it is "a beautiful heartbreaker of a musical," and that "Ms. Kron has already established herself as a vibrant family memoirist with her plays 2.5 Minute Ride and Well, and her book and resonantly precise lyrics give this show its essential spine.

Kron traveled to Kalamazoo for the week of the run, participating in "Lisa Kron Week in Kalamazoo" which, besides Well, included a performance of the Five Lesbian Brothers' "The Secretaries" as well as a public reading in which she read excerpts from all three of her works in addition to one of the pieces she is currently working on.

The world premiere of Kron's play In the Wake opened at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles on March 28, 2010.

Her experiences as a Jewish woman living in a predominantly Christian Midwestern city or life as a lesbian working in traditional theatre provide rich material for her plays.

It is simply a crucial part of her navigational equipment in finding her way through life's absurd course of non sequiturs.

"[9] She describes her creative process in her usual humorous and self-deprecating way: "I wish I had more of a technique for constructing these things.

[14] In 1989 Kron, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy founded the theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers.

[18] Kron developed stories about her family into autobiographical plays and performed them in New York and London.

New York Times critic Ben Brantley said in his review: "…Fans of that beleaguered literary form, the memoir, can breathe a little more easily this morning.

Kron's sparkling autobiographical play Well has arrived on Broadway…to restore the honor of a genre that was slipping into disgrace...[19] Well opened on Broadway March 10, 2006, to critical acclaim and received two Tony nominations.

Kron's unusual experience of working on the final touches of one play as a writer while rehearsing to act in another was discussed in a New York Times article "A Quick Trip From Playwright to Player, Lisa Kron Juggles Two Shows at Public Theater.

- 2.5 Minute Ride And 101 Humiliating Stories "…Judaism, you know, is viewed in the Midwest as kind of an accessory that you wear on top of your Christianity."