has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Her play Well opened to critical acclaim on Broadway at the Longacre Theater in March 2006 and received two Tony nominations. It premiered at The Public Theater in 2004 and was listed among the year’s best plays by The New York Times, The Associated Press, Newark’s The Star-Ledger, Back Stage, The Advocate, and is included in the anthology, “Best Plays of 2004-2005.” Her play, 2.5 Minute Ride (OBIE, L.A. Drama-Logue and GLAAD Media Awards, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations, New York Press: Best of 1999) premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 1996 and at The Public Theater in 1999 and has since been presented all over the world at theaters including the London Barbican and Japan’s Rinkogun. Ms. Kron’s other plays include 101 Humiliating Stories (Drama Desk nomination), Charity and Montecore (2006 Humana Festival, New York Fringe), and 43/13 (Dad’s Garage, Atlanta). Ms. Kron is a founding member of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers, whose plays Oedipus at Palm Springs, Brave Smiles, Brides of the Moon and The Secretaries have all been produced by New York Theater Workshop and performed widely throughout the country both by the Brothers and by other companies. She has received playwriting fellowships from the Lortel and Guggenheim Foundations, an NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Fellowship, the Cal Arts/Alpert Award, and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. Ms. Kron teaches playwriting at Yale Drama School. This fall she will be appearing as “The Ancient” in MCC’s production of the new comedy Spain at The Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. She is also working on a new play for L.A.’s Center Theatre Group on the state of American democracy.