2.5 Minute Ride
“Lisa Kron pulls off the impossible,” says the New Yorkerabout 2.5 Minute Ride, an award-winning solo performance that interweaves her father’s history as a child of the Holocaust with her family’s annual trip to an amusement park in Ohio. Written and performed by one of the most remarkable storytellers in the American theater, 2.5 Minute Ride is a poignant, funny, complex, and uplifting meditation on tragedy, grief, and family.
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM
Remarkable…emotional vibrations that won’t stop.
THE NEW YORKTIMES
Celebrates the power of laughter to help us come to grips with the sometimes horrific turns life takes.
VARIETY
Vivid, moving.
THE STAR-LEDGER
MEET THE ARTISTS
THE CAST
Lisa Kron
Playwright and Performer
Lisa Kron
THE CREATIVES
Director
Mark Brokaw
Mark Brokaw
Mark Brokaw Broadway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella,The Lyons, After Miss Julie, The Constant Wife, Reckless, Cry-Baby. New York premieres include works by: David Auburn, Lynda Barry, Douglas Carter Beane, Charles Busch, Julia Cho, Lisa Kron, Kenneth Lonergan, Craig Lucas, Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel, and Wendy Wasserstein. Regional includes The Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Center Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Sundance Theatre Lab, Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, and the O’Neill Theatre Conference. He has directed at London’s Donmar Warehouse, Dublin’s Gate Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House. Mark is the Artistic Director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and an Artistic Associate at Roundabout Theatre.
Scenic Designer
Allen Moyer
Allen Moyer
Allen Moyer Broadway:The Lyons, Lysistrata Jones, After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens(Tony/Drama Desk nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, The Constant Wife,Twelve Angry Men. Off-Broadway:Giant(Public Theater); Far From Heaven(Playwrights Horizons); A Minister’s Wife, The New Century(Lincoln Center Theater); MTC, Roundabout, Second Stage. Opera: Metropolitan Opera (Orfeo ed Euridice, dir. Mark Morris), New York City Opera, Houston Grand, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glimmerglass, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Gotham Opera, Scottish Opera, and Ireland’s Wexford Festival. Also with Mr. Morris: Sylviafor San Francisco Ballet and Romeo and Juliet, on motifs of Shakespearewith the Mark Morris Dance Group. 2006 Obie for Sustained Excellence.
Lighting Design
Philip Rosenberg
Philip Rosenberg
Philip Rosenberg previously designed My Wonderful Dayat Two River Theater. Off Broadway credits include Cactus Flower. Regional credits include: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, TACT, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, and Westport Country Playhouse. Over the past 12 years Philip has served as associate lighting designer on over 35 Broadway plays and musicals.
Sound Design
Darron L West
Darron L West
Darron L West is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work has been heard in more than 500 productions nationally and internationally. Other accolades include the 2012 Princess Grace Statue and Lortel, AUDELCO and Henry Hewes Awards. He is a founding member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and former Resident Sound Designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Original Music
Dan Froot
Dan Froot
Production Stage Manager
Rick Steiger
Rick Steiger
Rick Steiger Two River: On Borrowed Time, Lisa Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride. Broadway: An American om Paris; James Lapine’s Act One; War Horse; Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away; The Royal Family; 13: A New Musical; Rock ’N’ Roll; Frost/Nixon; Spring Awakening; The Woman In White; Caroline, or Change; Topdog/Underdog; Elaine Stritch: At Liberty; Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party; Epic Proportions; The Civil War; Titanic; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bells Are Ringing (Encores!), Mother Courage and Her Children, This Is How It Goes, Radiant Baby. Regional: WARHOLCAPOTE (A.R.T.). Production Supervisor for the North American Tour & West End productions of An American in Paris.