Lisa Kron is a writer and performer of pieces that inhabit the gray area between theater and performance art. Her plays create a conversation with an audience that is simultaneously a conversation happening in real time and a carefully constructed theatrical event. Her work is constructed of juxtaposed anecdotes which at first seem random but ultimately create a cohesive picture which sends the audience back into the world with a slightly altered set of perceptions. Though her plays are based on autobiographical material, the effect is universal. The work resonates with questions, desires and fears that lead the viewer into their own journey. Each piece is a framework into which the audience can imagine themselves.

Kron's work seeks to find the humanity in the crevices of human behavior. It concentrates less in the success or failure of endeavor than on the striving -- the places where human beings stumble -- where we are derailed by awkwardness, grandiosity, pretentiousness, vanity. It seeks to find the authentic human qualities in that gap between who we think we are and how we actually behave.

The work is infused with the idea that everything contains its opposite. It's built around the interrelation between comedy and tragedy. The plays are very funny and deeply disquieting at the same time.

Kron is dedicated to creating theater which is "intravenous" -- that is, work which goes directly into the mind and heart of the audience via the serum of a beguiling theatrical entertainment. Audiences leave her plays challenged, thinking and talking -- but while they're watching they're rendered receptive and captivated by her combination of authenticity and theatricality. Lisa Kron's work is an elemental theatrical experience.